NYC’s Summer Rising program leaves 45,000 applicants without seats
“The basic challenge is that demand outstripped supply pretty dramatically,” Emma Vadehra, the education department’s chief operating officer, told City Council members this week.
45,000 NYC children shut out of Summer Rising seats – Chalkbeat New York
NYC’s Summer Rising program rejected 45,000 applicants, launching scramble for child care
By Reema Amin May 24, 2023, 5:50pm EDT
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Students attend a Summer Rising program in 2021. Roughly 45,000 children who applied for this year’s program did not get seats.
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Roughly 45,000 children have been shut out of New York City’s free, popular summer program, education department officials said this week.
The program, which runs between six to seven weeks for most students, provides academics during the morning and enrichment activities in the afternoon for children in grades K-8 across the five boroughs from July to August.
Like last year, a total of 110,000 seats were available this year, with a portion held open for students mandated to attend summer school. During a City Council hearing this week, the education department’s Chief Operating Officer Emma Vadehra said there are 94,000 seats available for 139,000 applicants. Officials initially reported that 30,000 families did not receive spots.
It’s possible that some of the rejected applicants will have to attend the program anyway for academic reasons and will get a seat that has been set aside. Still, many of those families, who were notified earlier this month that they didn’t get seats, are likely scrambling to find summer programs for their children before the school year ends on June 27.
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