The “Student Nutrition on Winter Weather Days Act of 2014” requires the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) to provide to the Council of the District of Columbia, a plan providing free meals to District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS)1 students in high-poverty areas who qualify for free or reduced-price meals on school days when schools are closed due to inclement weather. In accordance with this legislation, this plan addresses:

1. A determination as to whether distributing meals to eligible students would be more feasible the day before school is likely be canceled due to inclement weather or on a day that school is actually cancelled due to inclement weather.
2. A list of schools to receive meals based on meeting the following criteria:
   1. At least 50% of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals;
   2. At least 50% of the enrolled students have family incomes that are less than 185% of the federal poverty level; and
   3. The school has the physical capacity to store sufficient amounts of nonperishable food to distribute to students.
3. A plan to distribute as many meals and snacks as feasible and as allowed through the federal Summer Food Service Program, authorized by section 13 of the National School Lunch Act, approved May 8, 1968 (82 Stat. 117; 42 U.S.C. § 1761) ("Summer Food Service Program"), to an eligible student on a day when school is cancelled due to inclement weather.

To inform OSSE’s plan and recommendations, OSSE explored options under the National School Lunch Act’s Summer Meal Programs: Summer Food Service Program and Seamless Summer Option in the following section. OSSE then compared the distribution of meals on the day of school closure due to inclement weather and the day before school closure due to inclement weather under the Summer Meals Programs. This report concludes with recommendations and a potential plan to distribute meals on a day when schools are closed due to inclement weather.