Claire Raffel, Deputy Director of the Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education and Policy in the Program in Nutrition at Teachers College, weighs in on how NYC should start to think about ways to get meals to students during cononavirus school closures. 

...The city should start to think about ways to get meals to students who might not be able to travel to school sites. In a Washington district, an online platform was set up for families to order meals, and school buses delivered them to dozens of designated sites...New York City’s school system [is an] “expert,” when it comes to feeding students...Solutions might even include turning to the city’s numerous app-based food delivery services...This is New York City. We have every food delivery system in the world. We should be able to figure something out for families who can’t walk to a school and pick something up.”   -  Claire Raffel, Deputy Director of the Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education and Policy in the Program in Nutrition, Teachers College, Columbia University

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Here’s Why Coronavirus Could Complicate Efforts to Keep NYC Students Fed During School Closures