THE PROMISE
Plant-based meals, throughout the week.
NYC Public Schools says it is expanding from Plant-Powered Fridays to plant-powered meals throughout the week.
Read the school’s promise ↗Evidence brief / 26 August 2026
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inside the promise.
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Institution brief
New York City Public Schools
● 3 official sources
THE PUBLIC RECORD
Monday and Friday are meatless menu days.
The nutrition page identifies Monday and Friday as citywide meatless menu days, while the daily vegan options listed are sandwiches and hummus with crackers.
Check the menu notes ↗!
THE GAP TO TEST
Does “throughout the week” reach every cafeteria?
The public pages describe the direction and daily options, but do not show a school-by-school rollout in this brief. That makes implementation visibility the clearest opening—not a claim that a particular school is failing.
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One next action
Ask the Office of Food and Nutrition Services (OFNS) for the rollout map.
Request the current school-level list of featured plant-based entrées and the dates each menu began offering them. Compare it with the menu shown for one school, then bring one specific missing day back to the food-service decision makers.
Start here: contact the Office of Food and Nutrition Services at food@schools.nyc.gov. For records held by the Department of Education, use its Freedom of Information Law route.
COPYABLE REQUEST
Hello, I am requesting the current school-level rollout map for plant-based entrées: which NYC Public Schools offer them, which menu items are featured, and the date each school began offering them. Please include the relevant menu period and source document, if available. Thank you.