School Lunch in L.A.

Lindsay William Ross is the co-editor at LAist.com. LA has the second largest school district in the nation with 900 schools. Last year they served about 69 million lunches. There is a very low participation rate among LA high schoolers. Only about 20-30 percent participate in the school lunch program. The food is processed at the centralized Newman Nutrition Center, which produces 80,000 pre-plated meals a day.