Maryland’s Blueprint left out free meals for students

In Baltimore City and in Baltimore, Dorchester and Somerset counties, every child can get a healthy school meal for free, without paperwork submitted by their parents and without the stigma of being labeled as poor. If you need a meal, you get a meal, no questions asked. In the remaining 20 Maryland school systems, this is not the case. The need for free school meals is quite simple, even though it is being debated in our General Assembly this winter. It has been well-documented that learning and development are impeded by hunger.