New York City plans to cut financing for an after-school program that opened under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a move that advocates say could cut the number of seats for children nearly in half next year.Nancy Wackstein, executive director of United Neighborhood Houses — an association of New York settlement houses and community centers — estimated that because of budget cuts, 23,000 children of elementary and middle school age would lose access to the program next year.
“When the school dismissal bell rings and parents are still at work,
many of their elementary and middle school children will have nowhere to
go,” Ms. Wackstein said in a statement.
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