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Staten Island Advance: Message from SI — don’t cut our programs!
May 10th, 2013
Outside PS 57 in Clifton on Thursday afternoon, parents, students and children’s advocates sought to communicate a clear message to Mayor Michael Bloomberg: They won’t stand for cuts to children’s after-school programs.
More than 170 attendees sent out that message …
NEW: Report on the Mayor’s 2014 Executive Budget!
May 6th, 2013
Read a new report released by the Campaign for Children on May 6, 2013. It finds that 9,000 children will lose child care on June 30th, unless something is done to restore the cuts that the Mayor is …
New Fact Sheet on the Mayor’s Budget: Not a Cent Restored
May 2nd, 2013
FACT SHEET: The 2014 Budget
The Mayor’s Budget Would Eliminate Child Care and After-School Programs For More Than 47,000 Children
On May 2, 2013, Mayor Bloomberg released his final Executive Budget. While the Mayor had one last opportunity to stabilize …
Greenpoint Star: Hundreds of Brooklyn Kids Rally!
April 25th, 2013
Hundreds of North Brooklyn students rallied in McCarren Park last week to once again protest possible cuts threatening their after school programs.
Under the preliminary budgetary projections for the 2014 fiscal year, the Bloomberg administration has proposed nearly $130 million …
Citywide “Call-In” Day!
April 15th, 2013
WITH THE MAYOR’S BUDGET CUTS, MORE THAN 47,000 CHILDREN WILL LOSE CHILD CARE AND AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS.
We need YOU to call City leaders in charge of the budget and tell them to save child care and after-school programs – programs …
NYNP: Students Rally Against Budget Cuts!
April 1st, 2013
The nonprofit human service sector’s budget battles moved from Albany to New York City yesterday when more than 700 children from after-school programs rallied outside City Hall to urge the Mayor not to cut 47,000 children from child care and …
Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn Kids Rally Against Budget!
April 1st, 2013
On Thursday morning, hundreds of Brooklyn kids joined more than 500 children from after-school programs across the city at a rally outside City Hall to urge the Mayor not to cut 47,000 slots from child care and after-school programs.
The …
DNAInfo: Kids Rally at City Hall!
April 1st, 2013
Hundreds of kids held signs and chanted outside City Hall Thursday morning to urge Mayor Michael Bloomberg to spare their afterschool programs.
“Our parents need to go to work sometimes and they can’t leave us at home alone,” said 9-year-old …
Daily News: Kids rally at City Hall!
April 1st, 2013
About 700 children rallied at City Hall Thursday to save after-school and day care programs that Mayor Bloomberg has threatened to slash.
More than $130 million for kids to participate in after-school and early education programs is at stake in …
NY1: Kids Rally Against Cuts!
April 1st, 2013
Hundreds of children rallied outside City Hall Thursday to urge Mayor Michael Bloomberg not to go through with cuts to after-school programs.
The mayor’s preliminary budget for the upcoming fiscal year includes more than $130 million in cuts to the …
