CROP programs lose funding

The Daily Star reported on that four area schools are scrambling to make plans for their CROP after-school programs after recently losing their funding.

Programs at Riverside in Oneonta, Jefferson, Stamford and Cherry Valley-Springfield were denied funding in June through an application submitted by Otsego-Northern Catskills Board of Cooperative Educational Services.

CROP director Kris Kaschak said the grant application was one of 387 submitted by organizations in the state and 60 were approved for funding provided by the federal No Child Left Behind program. Read more here.