Meeting Demand for4,000 Meals Per Day During COVID-19School Closures.
Meeting Demand for4,000 Meals Per Day During COVID-19School Closures.
4 Pages© 2020 Nutrislice Overview The Leander Independent School District (ISD) is located in a suburb community outside of the Austin, TX metropolitan area. The district has a relatively low free- and reduced-qualified student population of just 18%, so it did not anticipate large demand for its recent emergency feeding program in the wake of COVID-19 school closures. The district’s Child Nutrition Administrative team had, for years, offered a Summer Feeding Supplemental Program, providing free meals to anyone ages 1-18 in the community, regardless of their status as a student in the district or income eligibility. Typically, just 100-150 meals per day were served within this summer program. With this in mind, the district team was shocked when it was met with the 4,000 meals-per-d
