(NY Post) City Council Speaker Corey Johnson called on the Department of Education to start providing kosher and halal food in schools.
Johnson, a 2021 mayoral hopeful, told WNYC radio’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” on Tuesday he believes the DOE should use its purchasing power to help students with religious dietary restrictions.
“Yes, they should be offered because there are a lot of children who otherwise can’t get food that works for them and their families,” said Johnson, responding to a caller who complained his 5-year-old son didn’t have halal food at PS 134 on the Lower East Side.
“So I support us figuring out how we expand halal and kosher food across the entire system … [so] children have dietary options that work for them.”
