Exclusive | Menin to announce $1M funding to educate NYCs youngest on 9/11 tragedy they werent alive for

Never forget — even if you weren’t around to remember.The City Council is investing an incredible $1 million scholarship fund to educate the Big Apple’s youngest on the world-shattering tragedy of Sept.11, The Post has learned.The major education investment will benefit the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in expanding its programs — specifically targeting those who were not alive when the largest terror attack on US soil unfolded.“It’s about teaching the next generation,” City Council Speaker Julie Menin told The Post.

“In the days and weeks after 9/11, the city was really unified.“You felt that unity, and there were so many heroic acts from first responders and from everyday New Yorkers, and it’s really a focus of trying to remind young people what the events of 9/11 meant, what the terrorists tried to take away from our city and our country,” she added.“It’s an educational initiative to ensure that this next generation is fully aware of what transpired on 9/11, and all of the different acts of heroism, the loved ones that were lost, and the rebuilding efforts as well.”Menin will formally announce the major investment at a wreath-laying ceremony at the Memorial Thursday — a week ahead of the 25th anniversary of the dark day.The money was secured as part of the city’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget and will greatly expand the reach of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum as more and more generations of students become physically further and further removed from the terror attacks.Nearly one-third of Americans alive today were born after Sept.11, 2001, and millions more were too young at the time to remember the day firsthand, according to the museum.A whopping 75% of the money is dedicated to funding free field trips to the museum for the city’s 20,000 public school eighth graders.Each audio-guided field trip can cost upward of $23 per student — a cost that is priceless when it comes to hearing the victims’ final calls to loved ones, seeing th...