Parents fight to preserve after-school programs
Parents made sure that their needs were heard on April 26, as they stood outside P.S 503 in Sunset Park to try to prevent the city from cutting their much-needed child care and after-school programs.
Over 300 parents lined up starting at 3 p.m. on a warm Friday afternoon hoping to all fit in the schools auditorium which had been decorated with posters colored and painted by the children that read Unite and Fight for After-School, or save CFL (Center for Family Life) Camp.
The proposed $130 million in city budget cuts would affect more than 47,000 children throughout the city, an issue that touches close to home in Sunset Park, driving the Center for Family Life, a program of SCO Family of Services, to host the rally.