{"id":224208,"date":"2025-09-13T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T18:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/224208\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T18:28:10","slug":"nyc-mayor-adams-launches-push-for-universal-after-school-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/224208\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Adams launches push for universal after-school programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Back-to-School event at PS 78\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KUF3ND4Y5NFBRARII6VKE2DE7Y.jpeg\" \/>PS 78 in Stapleton held its annual Back-to-School event, offering backpacks and school supplies.(Advance\/SILive.com | Annalise Knudson)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BHBOIEHIWRHWZNPD6Y6646SWLQ\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order Friday tasking a new commission with developing a universal after-school program in the five boroughs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3LT6X33RYBEFNN3AZQHYO5ELXI\">The Commission on Universal After-School, led by United Way of New York City President and CEO Grace Bonilla and Queens Public Library President and CEO Dennis Walcott as co-chairs, will work to produce strategic recommendations to address issues facing the after-school ecosystem, such as funding, provider capacity, program quality, areas for innovation, and improving equity, according to the mayor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PS 78 in Stapleton held its annual Back-to-School event, offering backpacks and school supplies.(Advance\/SILive.com | Annalise Knudson) STATEN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":224209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-224208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115198407927765303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}