Speaker Menin on NYC Kids Rise account activation

So Chancellor, thank you for coming to our 529 conference for NYC Kids Rise and for what you've done as superintendent in districts 13 and 3 to support the program.

We believe it is so important to expand upon this program and we want to understand what can DRE do to better support schools to work with families to view and activate their

New York City Kids Rise accounts.

Thank you, Speaker Manon.

And as you know, the last five months have been the largest increase in activation in our New York City Rise accounts

in the records that they keep.

And so I am committed to the program, and we've done significant work with our superintendents and work with our partners at Kids Rise to ensure that our schools are continuing to

give the necessary resources to parents that they need to be able to sign up and activate their accounts, specifically in our most marginalized populations.

So we are absolutely working on that and committed to doing that.

Okay.