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The program will serve 110,000 children and run from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. daily.
The free Summer Rising program offers a mix of academics and recreation to more students than any other summer school in the nation.
With COVID cases already popping up in summer school, there are calls to rethink the protocols for the coming school year.
Health experts don’t think parents and kids need to abandon their return to normalcy, but they do recommend a couple of extra considerations for summer camp, vacations and social gatherings.
Schools and nonprofits that are hosting the city’s unprecedented and free “Summer Rising” program say they’re hitting bumps in the road a month before students are to begin.
The program will seek to address some of the academic and emotional toll from more than a year of pandemic-wrought school upheaval, school officials said.
The proposed cuts include the $124 million Summer Youth Employment Program, the nation’s largest youth employment program.
The Department of Education estimates that 34,000 elementary and middle school students will need summer school this year, up from 22,800 last year.