Free Swim Program Gets $1.5M from Philanthropist, Offsets Some of $5.3M Budget Cuts
All 70,000 public school second graders were going to get free swimming lessons under a city council law passed last year, but it was postponed for a year as part of the Mayor Eric Adams budget cuts. Now Wave Makers, a program devised by the City Council and the nonprofit Asphalt Green, will provide free […]
Swim Lessons for N.Y.C. Children Were at Risk. A Billionaire Helped Out.
During a period of painful budget cuts, New York City lawmakers secured private funding to pay for free swim lessons for 2,000 second graders starting in June.