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Salem School Committee backs students' call to restore $60 million for state food‑assistance program
Summary
Eighth‑grade students urged the School Committee to ask state senators to keep MEFAP funding at $60 million; the committee voted to send a resolution endorsing the House figure and the chair said she will forward the correspondence to Senator Lovely.
Students from Miss Joll's eighth‑grade civics class told the Salem School Committee on May 11 that recent state and federal cuts are straining local food banks and asked the committee to urge the Massachusetts Senate to adopt a $60,000,000 funding level for the Massachusetts Emergency Food Assistance Program (MEFAP) that the House had passed.
The students described interviews with the Salem Food Pantry’s director and said the pantry serves a large share of North Shore families. “We want…
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