More time needed to chew on school lunch plans in Salem
Source: By Amanda McGregor, Salem News (MA), June 03, 2008
Superintendent William Cameron Jr. says schools can't afford to keep food service in-house and guaranteed it would be cheaper to hire an international company to feed local students.
...... Cameron was responding last night to a plan crafted by union members and parents that details an overhauled school food program with broader menus, healthier choices and increased participation.
....... Deborah Jeffers, the longtime cook at Horace Mann Laboratory School, shed tears after the meeting. "I thought he was harsh," said Jeffers, who is vice president of the local Association of Federal, State, County and Municipal Employees Union, which represents the cafeteria workers, among other employees. "These are not pie-in-the-sky numbers (we proposed). We backed them up, and we were very conservative."