officially kicked off Summer Rising, the city's summer school and enrichment program for elementary and middle school students.
Parents, like Maria Arce, said the program is especially important after years of online learning during the pandemic. Arce's daughter just finished third grade at PS 188. She decided to enroll her in the school's Summer Rising program to make sure she's all caught up. Arce said her daughter gets academic classes and participates in activities like field trips, art, theater, robotics and dance. "We saw far too long, we saw summer decline. Now we say summer rising. We saw a decline in opportunity, a decline in socialization, a decline in healthy nutritional meals," Adams said.
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