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Request for continued partnership and baseline funding for CUNY Reconnect
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Sarmiento concludes by requesting continued partnership and baseline funding for CUNY Reconnect to ensure its continued success and impact.
- Emphasizes CUNY's infrastructure, experience, and commitment to scale programs
- Asks for baseline funding for CUNY Reconnect to continue changing lives at scale
- Highlights the potential for graduates to become taxpayers, homeowners, and community leaders
- Stresses that no barrier is too small to fix when the payoff is significant for students, families, and New York City
Reine Sarmiento
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In closing this critical work of CUNY's lifting up lifting New York strategic road map which promises to improve access and greater social mobility for our citizens.
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We have the infrastructure.
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We have the experience and the commitment to scale these programs and serve as a national model model for our cities and reclaim our untapped talent.
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That is why we respectfully ask for the continued partnership.
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We ask that you provide baseline funding for CUNY reconnect to ensure it can continue to change lives at scale.
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Together we can help thousands more New Yorkers become graduates, taxpayers, homeowners, and community leaders.
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Together we can show that no barrier is too small to fix when the pay the payoff is so great for the student, their family and the future of New York City.