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to limit the impact of medical threats on our students and staff, enabling us to meet our primary goal of keeping our schools open and serving students.  rimeroEdge School P Nutrition Software Students in all district schools use the PrimeroEdge School Nutrition software for lunch and breakfast purchases. PrimeroEdge is a computerized accounting system which can eliminate the need for parents to send money to school with their son or daughter on a daily basis to pay for food or drinks purchased in any of the district’s cafeterias. Every student is assigned an account that can be accessed only by their student PIN (Personal Identification Number). Once given to a student, the PIN remains the same from year to year. When making a purchase at the cafeteria, the student enters his/her PIN and if there is money in the account, the price of the purchase, including ala carte items, is deducted from the account balance. Students with no funds in their account will not be permitted to charge ala carte items to their account. The district may impose charge limits for individuals who fail to keep their account current. Funds in the student’s account can only be used for cafeteria purchases. The PrimeroEdge system will automatically recognize the students who meet eligibility requirements for free or reduced meals and make appropriate deductions. Students/parents can place money into individual accounts by sending a check (made payable to the Greensburg Salem Cafeteria Fund) to school. In addition, families now have the opportunity to use SchoolCafe.com, a service that offers a review of a child’s cafeteria purchases, as well as allows prepayment to the cafeteria account using a credit or debit card. Accounts on SchoolCafe.com can be created free-of-charge, without providing credit card information, to give any parent the ability to review student cafeteria purchases. Families are not required to make deposits into their child’s account using the SchoolCafe.com service. Parents who would like the convenience of paying online can do so with a minimum of $20.00 payment subtotal, excluding the 5% service fee charged for each payment. Greensburg Salem School District does not receive any of the service fees charged by SchoolCafe on all online food service payments. More information about the PrimeroEdge School Nutrition program will be provided to students and parents at the beginning of the school year. If at any time you have questions about PrimeroEdge or any aspects of our food service program, please feel free to call your child’s school or the Food Service Director at 724.832.2990. GREENSBURG SALEM ❘ FALL 2018 33