A half a million dollar a year education program that aims to help Emmett students outside the classroom is disappearing a year early, but the district is doing everything in its power to keep it.
The federal Full-Service Community Schools grant, which funds after-school programs, food support, and family services in Emmett, could end December 31 — a year earlier than expected.
Watch to learn how Emmett’s School District will be impacted.
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“It came as a big shock, especially them ending it so suddenly and, in the middle of the school year instead of at the end of the school year,” Amy Burr, community school coordinator districtwide at Emmett School District, said…