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🚨NEWS: THE RESPECT CHECK IS NOW LAW!!
Thanks to our advocacy and our champions in @NYCCouncil, especially @SpeakerMenin and @CnDelarosa, paras will now receive a critical financial boost.
The UFT has upgraded the NYC Childcare Navigator to include federal food programs and housing vouchers, allowing members to check eligibility for WIC, SNAP and Section 8 programs. The directory is also growing: members can now access 2-K programs, explore more than 1,650 licensed
Today, on the 25th anniversary of September 11th, we remember and mourn the lives lost that day and in the years that followed. We also honor the workers that helped New York respond, recover and rebuild. #NeverForget
Paraprofessionals keep our schools running. I am proud to support the RESPECT Check, legislation from the nyccouncil to give Paras the pay they deserve. I worked with Gloria when I taught right here in my district at the Walton Campus! We need ta enact this unanimous legislation