School meals help prevent childhood obesity and decrease food inequities, which COVID-19 has exacerbated. With food insecurity on the rise, it is critical that school meal programs employ equitable meal distribution strategies. To understand how urban schools with large populations of economically vulnerable students distributed school meals during COVID-19, a team of researchers, including from the Tisch Food Center, conducted a case study of four of the largest urban school districts in the United States: Chicago Public Schools (CPS), Houston Independent School District (HISD), Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), and New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE). 

Access the policy brief on How Urban Districts Distributed Meals during the 2019-20 School Closures

You can find the full case study here in the Journal of Urban Health.