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Suggestions for improving the Summer Rising program
2:00:26
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Council Member Stevens offers suggestions to enhance the Summer Rising program, focusing on incorporating more field trips and expanding the program's scope. DYCD Commissioner acknowledges ongoing discussions about these improvements.
- Suggestion to include more field trips during the school day portion of Summer Rising
- Emphasis on the potential for teachers to lead trips with CBO support
- Discussion about DYCD potentially taking charge of recruitment and application processes
- Acknowledgment from DYCD Commissioner about ongoing talks with NYC Public Schools regarding field trips
Althea V. Stevens
2:00:26
And even one of suggestions I'm thinking like I don't we've been talking about trips.
2:00:29
Teachers could go on trips.
2:00:30
Don't know why they don't do it during the day.
2:00:31
I don't know why all of a sudden during the summer they can't they can't do a trip during the day because the CBO is gonna be there regardless.
2:00:37
So maybe that's one of the things that we can push for.
2:00:39
And
Keith Howard
2:00:40
that's actually one of the things that Daniel and Susan have been actually talking with our partners over at New York City Public Schools and I believe when I was listening to the testimony of the chancellor and and her team, they did acknowledge that that school trips can happen
Althea V. Stevens
2:00:56
during the day.
2:00:56
They can, but we know that they don't be happening, which is why they happen on Friday.
2:00:59
But I will say this, I did speak to the chancellor afterwards and she said she heard all of my concerns and she did not know that I had such a disdain for this program and so she wants to sit down to go through some things.
2:01:10
I have and I do because again even at the last hearing, even things that our side does well we should be in charge of like recruitment and application and those things.
2:01:20
I'm not going reiterate that right now.