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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see why it's not realistic that the city council provide additional funding to make up for whatever the lost amount of funding that occurs due to this from the federal gov't or the bill that passed today or whatever is the issue here. And I know $ isn't infinite but they can and should take from something else since our children having a safe place after school is more important than MOST other things.[/quote]

Council could do this, but should only do it with income limits.  All UMC families should have to pay. The current situation where some UMC families pay and others don’t doesn’t seem feasible to me with DC’s finances.[/quote]

You can’t just give free aftercare to all students at Title 1 schools.  [/quote]

Does anyone know what currently determines if a school gets free aftercare? We're at a Title I school with free breakfast/lunch but aftercare is not free.[/quote]

Are you sure you’re actually at a T1? Free lunch is more generous after a shift in USDA rules. L-T, Peabody/Watkins and Bancroft are examples of schools that get free lunch but are not T1.[/quote]

I'm sure it's Title I.[/quote]

Then it gets aftercare money from OSTP. Not all schools use it to make aftercare free for kids up to an arbitrary limit (usually those schools have two providers). Some use it to subsidize all slots and others do free aftercare only for a certain subset grade-wise. You’d have to talk to your LSAT to find out how your $$ is allocated, but if you’re at a T1, they get a bunch of OSTP funding.[/quote]

That makes sense. They do offer "scholarships" for the fee-based program. There's also a DPR site nearby so some students get free aftercare that way. Does DPR have its own OSTP funds or could that be coming from the school too?[/quote]

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