With a “historic” enhance to 17,000 BPS summer time programming seats and seven,000 youth summer time jobs this yr, the packages are nonetheless seeking to fill spots, the mayor and BPS superintendent emphasised.
“We’re well ahead of last year for the registration,” Superintendent Mary Skipper mentioned of summer time programming at a media availability outdoors Charlestown High School round midday Wednesday. “But we would like to make sure every single one of those seats is actually filled. We know for every student who attends summer programming and is in session at least three days in the week, they come back more ready to learn, more wanting to learn and more engaged.”
BPS added 2,000 extra summer time programming seats, and the town added 1,000 youth job alternatives this yr, doubling the variety of jobs crammed final yr.
“If there’s something you want to learn, there’s likely a program for you,” Skipper added, outlining BPS alternatives in athletics, arts and music packages, partnerships with nonprofits and group organizations, the examination college initiative, the prolonged yr for particular training college students and extra.
Mayor Michelle Wu additionally invited anybody “interested in supporting our youth” to achieve out to the town to discover a method to get entangled — whether or not in a mentorship or a bigger partnership capability.
The metropolis is “happy” to work by means of considerations or questions on getting concerned in this system with households, Wu added.
More data on obtainable youth summer time jobs is on the boston.gov SuccessLink Youth Summer Jobs web page. Information for BPS summer time programming could be discovered on the BPS Summer Stuff web page.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”