Some Tarrytown families will be denied the chance to have their children attend free afterschool programs this fall.
Port Chester, Tarrytown, New Rochelle and White Plains have lost funding for after-school programs due to federal sequestration, The Journal News reports.
About $4.3 million in 21st Century Community Learning Centers grants were lost to the four Westchester communities. Tarrytown relies on about $550,000 annually to run its programs, The Journal News said.
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Tarrytown will team up with JCC on the Hudson, The Family YMCA at Tarrytown on after school programming. Click here for details.
There were a record number of applications, the New York Department of Education told Journal News reporter Leah Rae, and the state received less money than it planned.
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The New York State Education Department was supposed to give out $82 million, but only doled out $78.1 million because of federal budget cuts.
Programs in Yonkers, Mount Vernon and Peekskill were among the 125 districts, charter schools and community agencies that did received funding, according to The Journal News.
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