An update to my post from last week about city kids having to eat cereal or cheese sandwiches instead of the regular cafeteria fare while they wait for their free lunch applications to be processed:

Andres Alonso, CEO of the city schools, emailed late last week to say that "whatever was happening, it ended yesterday." He said a directive has been sent to all schools instructing them to serve students applying for subsidized lunches the same food as everyone else.

Thanks to Monica Lane, the grandparent of a prekindergartner at Gilmor Elementary School who brought the situation to my attention.

Read my initial post about the problem here.