Mayor Adams Joins Parents Activating Their Child Savings Account, "NYC Scholarship Accounts"

On Friday, May 13, 2022, Mayor Adams and Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright joined NYC Kids RISE, elected officials, community leaders, and the kindergarten students and families of the Baychester Academy school community in the Bronx to celebrate the first-ever citywide NYC Scholarship Month. This May, school communities across the city are hosting events celebrating collective efforts to support college and career readiness and the first opportunity families of kindergarten students participating in the NYC Kids RISE Save for College Program have to activate and view their children’s new NYC Scholarship Accounts. This is the first step parents/guardians can take to earn additional Scholarship Funds for their child’s NYC Scholarship Account.

The kindergarten students at Baychester Academy are among the more than 65,000 kindergarteners citywide who now have a financial asset for their college and career training through the NYC Kids RISE Save for College Program. Parents and guardians of participating kindergarteners can go to nyckidsrise.org/activate to activate and view their child’s NYC Scholarship Account and start earning more money for their child’s educational future.

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May 13, 2022