In order to reduce violence in the city, the council decided
to increase not only funding of after school programs but also the trained social workers working with the police department, also offering meditation and conflict resolution classes as alternatives to incarceration.
(A) to increase not only funding of after school programs but also the trained social workers working with the police department, also offering --
1. also offering is un// with 'to increase'; 2. One cannot increase the social workers working- one can only increase the number or numbers of workers. (B) on both increased funding of after school programs, the number of trained social workers working with the police department, and offering ---
and offering as a participle does not parallel nouns such as the increased fund or the number
(C) to increase both funding of after school programs and the number of trained social workers working with the police department and to offer --
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(D) to increase funding of after school programs, the number of trained social workers working with the police department, and offer -
- un//(E) to increase both funding of after school programs as well as the number of trained social workers working with the police department, along with offering -- '
both... as well as' is a bad idiom