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Council Member James Vacca and TASC president Lucy N. Friedman jointly announced that 13 new after-school programs are now operating in New York public schools with support from the City Council and The After-School Corporation (TASC), which funds and monitors daily programs in schools and assures they meet high standards of quality.

A decision by the New York State Department of Education not to release federal funds for after-school programs is likely to result in the closure, or severe service reduction, of 207 after-school programs throughout New York State at the end of this school year. The affected programs currently enroll just over 34,000 children and teens in grades kindergarten through 12, who for five years have had safe and supervised places to go after school while their parents work.