State to provide more money for after-school programs, Brook-Krasny says
The new state budget will include funding for after-schools programs in New York City, according to Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny, who said the money will be part of a $700 million fiscal package aimed at helping students.
“In the budget, there is new education money. I’m grateful to the governor,” Brook-Krasny (D-Coney Island-Bay Ridge) told members of the Bay Ridge Community Council at the organization’s annual luncheon on Feb. 1.
The budget is due to be adopted by April 1, according to the state’s Division of the Budget. The budget will have to be negotiated between Governor Andrew Cuomo and the State Legislature over the next two months. But Brook-Krasny said the after-school program funding is a top priority of both the governors and the legislature’s.