City Year is a volunteer corps of recent college graduates promoting education in schools, but the program’s funding has been threatened after the D.C. government missed a federal grant deadline. Serve D.C. also failed to request an extension on time, rendering the city ineligible to receive money for some of the AmeriCorps programs in the city. City officials originally declined to explain why Serve D.C. missed crucial deadlines. LaToya Foster, a spokeswoman for Bowser, said Serve D.C. employees responsible for the grant mishap were terminated, but she declined to name them. After this article was published online, Foster said Serve D.C. officials could not submit the application because of technical problems.

Source: Washington Post April 04, 2019 21:24 UTC