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New York Post
29-04-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Adams takes ride down slide as he announces NYC is expanding free after-school program — as issue becomes central in mayoral race
Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday he wants to make New York City more affordable for families by expanding a free after-school program — an issue that's grown as a hot topic in the mayoral race. Adams said he plans to send 20,000 more kindergarten through fifth grade students to the after-school initiative over the next three years, earmarking $331 million for it in his upcoming executive budget. It means Hizzoner's spending plan for the 2026 fiscal year — which he dubbed the 'Best Budget Ever' and is expected to unveil Thursday — will bring the total spending on after-care to $755 million. 3 Mayor Eric Adams celebrated an expansion of a free after-school program by sliding down a slide alongside Deputy Mayor Ana Almanzar at PS 20 in Manhattan. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office 'To make New York City the best place to raise a family, we need to make sure our young people and families have opportunities to thrive, and that is why we are launching a big, bold vision to achieve universal after-school for free for all students who want it,' Adams said from PS 20, the Anna Silver School, in Lower Manhattan. The initiative — run by the city Department of Youth and Community Development Programs — will be fully rolled out by the fall of 2027, with seats going to students in kindergarten through eight grade and to neighborhoods with 'greater need' first, the mayor said. 'When we do analysis of where after-school programs are — and where (there are) opportunities for doing extracurriculars after school — there are clearly communities where they don't exist,' Adams said at the new conference — where he zoomed down a slide alongside Deputy Mayor Ana Almanzar. The issue of affordable childcare has become central in the mayor's race with nearly all of the candidates linking lack of affordable childcare to the city's affordability crisis. 3 Adams said the city's new after-school seats will be rolled out in neighborhoods with the greatest need first. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office State Sen. Zellnor Myrie, who is running in the crowded June 24 Democratic primary, ripped Adams' announcement as a 'copycat' plan. The lefty mayoral hopeful claimed universal free after-school for city students was his idea first. 'This isn't even a good dupe,' Myrie said in a statement. 3 'Our parents shouldn't have to choose between picking up their child or working a job to put food on the table — and now they won't have to,' Adams said. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office His proposal also calls for free 3-K for all students until 6 p.m. at public schools. Democratic Socialist Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani wants the city to offer free childcare for every New Yorker from 6 weeks to 5 years old, according to his campaign website. A plan posted to Andrew Cuomo's campaign website said the former governor wants to expand a preexisting universal 3-K program, broaden eligibility requirements for childcare subsidies and incentivize employer-sponsored childcare.
BBC News
24-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Appleton in talks over new Shrewsbury contract
Michael Appleton is in talks with Shrewsbury Town over a new long-term deal as 49-year-old was appointed on a contract until the end of the season after Gareth Ainsworth's sudden departure to Gillingham last had nine games to save them from relegation but was unable to keep the Shrews in League One, having inherited a side which was already nine points from were relegated on Good Friday to end a 10-year spell in the third tier and will finish wants to stay and there is a belief a deal will get done and he has already spoken of his desire to extend his time in told BBC Radio Shropshire this month: "We're due to sit down next week, I think it's Tuesday, to discuss what potentially could happen. It's something that hopefully will be a positive discussion."When I first came in, the first interview, it had been a while. As an individual, you've got to find out if that fire's still burning, that passion. What I have found out is that it's burning more than ever."I love being on the grass, that's what I do best. But I've enjoyed the other side of it, trying to build and shape the team in a different way. The feedback I've been getting from players, staff and fans has been positive."Former Manchester United midfielder Appleton has also managed Portsmouth, Blackpool, Blackburn , Leicester, Lincoln, Oxford, where he earned his first promotion, and Charlton.
BBC News
11-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Appleton keen to stay longer at Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury Town boss Michael Appleton says he is keen to stay beyond the end of the season despite the League One bottom club's imminent will be relegated back to League Two for the first time in 10 years with, four games left, if they fail to win at Appleton's former club Lincoln City on although only appointed for the final nine games of this season, after Gareth Ainsworth walked out to go to Gillingham, and with Town having only picked up one point out of a possible 12, Appleton has seen enough to sense that he and Shrewsbury can be a good long-term is due to hold further talks next week with director of football Micky Moore and chairman Roland Wycherley about the way forward for him and the Shropshire said: "It's one of them where when you're in a role and, rightly or wrongly, you start talking about next season. Even though my contract doesn't suggest that's the case, it's just a natural. It's what you do." He told BBC Radio Shropshire: "You just start planning and thinking 'right, okay, if we got him here, we could do this and I could change this'. So, those types of conversations, quite openly, I've been having with Mick and the staff daily anyway."Now, whether that happens or not, obviously, is yet to be seen. But we're due to sit down next week, I think it's Tuesday, to discuss what potentially could happen. It's something that hopefully will be a positive discussion."When I first came in, the first interview, it had been a while. As an individual, you've got to find out if that fire's still burning, that passion. What I have found out is that it's burning more than ever. "I love being on the grass, that's what I do best. But I've enjoyed the other side of it, trying to build and shape the team in a different way. The feedback I've been getting from players, staff and fans has been positive." Appleton on his health scare at Lincoln Appleton has had short spells with both Blackpool and Charlton Athletic since he left Saturday's opponents Lincoln in May it was when he was at Sincil Bank he got diagnosed with testicular cancer after leading the Imps to the League One play-off final in May recalled: "I could feel pain, went to the GP and spoke to the club doctor. After getting scanned, very quickly they were keen to do something about it because they didn't like what they saw. "I got diagnosed with testicular cancer in the May and had the operation just after the Wembley play-off final."I was very lucky that we got it dealt with but the thing I did which I probably shouldn't have done was come back too quickly. I was supposed to have a couple of months off but I was back in work 10 days later. "It was a difficult period as we had a young child as well. It does put a lot of things into perspective. "I was alright, weirdly. I'm guessing it's always worse for the people who you love you, rather than actually you, yourself. I found it quite easy to compartmentalise it." 'I'm a lot less angry now' Appleton is now three years into his five-year remission target and keen to continue his recovery and work towards the future - hopefully at up-for-sale Shrewsbury."I'm three years in now," he said. "We had a little scare about 12 months ago from a prostate point of view but it turned out to be an infection. "I've got an assessment in a couple of weeks' time for bloods. Touch wood I've not been too bad so far."He also maintains that it has helped change his managerial style."Personally, stepping away from football now, I'm able to look at things a bit differently," he added. "I struggled at times before to park it and put it behind me but now it's easier. I'm a lot less angry. "There's a few staff and players where there's a few fridges that might have got broken accidentally from being over enthusiastic, whereas now I pick my moments."Shrewsbury boss Michael Appleton was talking to BBC Radio Shropshire's Nick Southall
BBC News
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
🎧 Another defeat on the road
The latest episode of the When You're Smiling podcast has Foxes assistant manager Michael Appleton joins the podcast to rake over Leicester's defeat at Manchester to the full episode on BBC Sounds
BBC News
28-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
🎧 'It feels like the whole club is on auto pilot'
Former Leicester City interim manager Michael Appleton joined Owynn Palmer-Atkin and The Fosse Way's David Bevan to discuss Leicester's poor form on the When You're Smiling podcast."Leicester need a result from somewhere and that result has got to come quickly. It's a very difficult position. Losing games of football is just as much of a habit as winning matches. It just comes down to confidence and momentum. When you go on a losing streak, things come less naturally to you," said added: "You look at the stats. They have lost 13 in 14, haven't scored a goal at home in seven games. It is really difficult to have any optimism about even reaching Wolves' current tally to be honest."Wolves are 17th in the league and have 26 points, nine more than the Foxes."Even as a manager, losing this many games and not scoring any goals without a change being made is kind of unprecedented in my time supporting the club. It speaks to a lack of ambition but it feels to me that the only reason they haven't made a change is because of the financial restrictions and even that is down to long-term decision making that the club is responsible for," Bevan most recent league match, where they lost 3-0 against Manchester United, meant they became the first team in English top-flight history to lose seven home games in succession while failing to score in each."We just want to see something a little bit different for those final few games. It really feels at the moment like the whole club is on auto pilot."Listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds
