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RI Promise delivers as CCRI graduation sets a record

BUILDING A NEW FUTURE: Gov. Gina M. Raimondo’s Rhode Island Promise program has increased enrollment and graduation rates at the Community College of Rhode Island in its two years. 
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DAVE HANSEN
BUILDING A NEW FUTURE: Gov. Gina M. Raimondo’s Rhode Island Promise program has increased enrollment and graduation rates at the Community College of Rhode Island in its two years. 
 / PBN FILE PHOTO/
DAVE HANSEN

Three years ago, when Gov. Gina M. Raimondo started her push for the Rhode Island Promise program, she did not receive universal plaudits. Speaker of the House Nicholas A. Mattiello thought a better use of state dollars would be the elimination of the car tax. Others thought it was just another government program that would

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