City Health department, EMS have already begun small-scale city-run distribution.
The news comes after a surge of cases at the university.
Attendance rates are down and chronic absenteeism is on the rise as the pandemic carries on.
Students returned to school Monday after a three-week campus closure.
The city of New Orleans was asking to be let out of an order to build the so-called Phase III facility, intended for inmate medical and mental health care.
FDA warns of false negatives with the test the school district was using.
Though city health data has improved, officials say there is more work to be done.
Declines seen across the state. Lower enrollment in pre-K, kindergarten accounted for about half of the enrollment drops, officials said.
Approvals for a package of tax breaks, including two that were rejected last month, could have cost the city $25 million over a decade.