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Funding restoration for summer programs and concerns about consistency
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Council Member Stevens discusses the restoration of funding for summer programs targeting middle school students, while expressing concerns about the consistency and longevity of this funding. She highlights the importance of stable, long-term funding for program effectiveness.
- $19.6 million one-shot funding restored for the summer program
- Program hours for middle school students will be extended across school districts
- Stevens emphasizes the need for baseline funding to avoid annual budget negotiations
- Calls for consistent funding throughout the program's planned years
Althea V. Stevens
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I'm happy to see that the plan included a restoration of 19,600,000.0, a one shot funding for the summarizing program.
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This funding will extend the program hours for middle school student programs all across the school's districts.
0:02:22
Unfortunately, this restoration does not account for the fact that the original peg was baseline.
0:02:28
For programming consistently, it's critical that we don't have to go through this process each year and this restoration is made for all the years of the program's plan.