Budget cuts force nonprofit after-school programs to charge fees (NJ)

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Budget cuts have cost funding to after-school programs that serve nearly 9,000 children of the working poor in New Jersey.

The state cut $7.4 million in aid to a New Brunswick-based charity that supported the programs as part of Gov. Chris Christie's 2010-11 budget.

New Jersey After 3 says only 18 non-profits serving 26 schools and 3,800 students received funding. More than 12,000 children were served last year.

Peter Thornton of the Boys & Girls Club of Paterson & Passaic, which didn't get a grant, tells The Record newspaper the club needs to come up with $400,000 or more to pay for its four after-school programs in Paterson. It has begun charging fees.

Programs that did receive funding are getting less than last year.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/budget_cuts_cause_nonprofit_af.html


Typical Republican scum, take the money from the poor, feed money to his pet projects and to the charter schools owned by his buddies.