ARC After school program in Brawley terminated

BRAWLEY, Calif. (KYMA) - The ARC After School Learning and Enrichment Program will cease to operate at the end of this year.

The third party state-funded program currently serves 904 students in Brawley, and will be replaced by an in-house program called GLOW next year.

Families will have the opportunity to enroll in the new program once it becomes available, and enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis.

"From what they told us, we were doing amazing, we did great, we're finishing off the school year, it's just that next year they're decided to run the program in-house," Roger Rascon, ARC's Director of Program told KYMA.

Rascon said he took several student to Sacramento, where Assemblymember Jeff Gonzalez, who represents Imperial County is pushing to keep state-funded after school programs running.

"We went to the state capitol to kind of talk about a new bill. It's AB 2430, which is trying to help continue that funding for those schools, but also open it up to the high schools," Rascon said.

The proposed bill focuses on increasing access to after school learning programs for grades seven through 12.

Rascon said the program will continue to run in the Imperial Unified School District for the 2026-27 school year.