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State task force launches to recommend a statewide "Connecticut Promise" and bolster local programs
Summary
Co-chairs Kelvin Roldan and Richard Sugarman opened a task-force kickoff to review existing city-based Promise programs, form work groups, and deliver recommendations to the legislature by Jan. 1 on sustaining and expanding Promise-style college-access programs across Connecticut.
Kelvin Roldan, co-chair of the state task force to support Promise programs, opened the group's first meeting and outlined a charge to review existing city-based Promise programs, recommend ways to sustain and grow them, and propose what a statewide Connecticut Promise might look like.
The task force was created by a legislative special act referenced at the meeting ("special act number 20 five-ten") and is expected to deliver a report with specific recommendations to the legislature by Jan. 1, the co-chairs said. "We're gonna end up with a report. We're gonna end up with a report that includes specific recommendations to the legislature, hopefully, by the January 1. That's our timeline," Richard Sugarman said.
The work will proceed through two designated work groups: one to focus on supporting existing Promise programs and recommending how to create new local programs, and a second to develop recommendations for a statewide Connecticut Promise.…
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