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[Educators of NYC @educatorsofnyc]

Movements don’t start with press releases.

They start with members refusing to accept poverty wages.

The fight for para pay wasn’t born in union headquarters—it grew from rank-and-file organizing that made ignoring paraprofessionals politically impossible.

That’s the story behind today’s RESPECT Check.

Read the backstory here: https://t.co/XZln1WISaR

#UFT #Paraprofessionals #UnionStrong #Labor #NYC #RespectCheck #nycparas #UFT #nyceducators #nycparas

[Educators of NYC @educatorsofnyc]

More of the story @createcraig

https://t.co/2cXGpIybbl

[Educators of NYC @educatorsofnyc]

Movements don’t start with press releases.

They start with members refusing to accept poverty wages.

The fight for para pay wasn’t born in union headquarters—it grew from rank-and-file organizing that made ignoring paraprofessionals politically impossible.

That’s the story behind today’s RESPECT Check.

Read the backstory here: https://t.co/XZln1WISaR

#UFT #Paraprofessionals #UnionStrong #Labor #NYC #RespectCheck #nycparas #UFT #nyceducators #nycparas

[Daniel Alicea @DanielAlicea]

Tonight at 7 PM ET on @WBAI 99.5 FM : We unpack the newly passed NYC para bill with paraprofessional organizer Alyson Monzón.

What does it really do? How did years of rank-and-file organizing shape this moment? And what comes next?

🎧 https://t.co/dqkQRjW3Op

[Bob Hennelly @stucknation]

@WBAI Breaking News: Council Member Ariola Proposes $20K-25K Workforce Stabilization Payments for @FDNY EMS @UEMSO_FDNY
in wake of landmark $10K bonus bill for @UFT paraprofessionals passing the City Council overwhelmingly despite @NYCMayor opposition.
https://t.co/XjLRY1wjvy

[Chalkbeat New York @ChalkbeatNY]

Mayor Mamdani says the measure violates state labor law, but it passed the City Council with a veto-proof majority. https://t.co/6ru3BWqGnr

[UFT Action @UFT_action]

Thank you @SpeakerMenin and every single member of @NYCCouncil for your leadership in pushing the RESPECT check bill towards the finish line!!

We are one step closer to helping paraprofessionals afford to live in the City that they serve.

Let’s👏get👏this👏done

#REPSECTforParaprofessionals

[Susan Edelman @SusanBEdelman]

When an AI "pause" is not a pause.

[Educators of NYC @educatorsofnyc]

@mathnerd9130 @SusanBEdelman @DOEChancellor The policy is inconsistent, incoherent and nonsensical

[Ms. A @mathnerd9130]

The Adobe rollout changes the context of the Chancellor's email. Principals were told to pause software purchases while AI guidance was being developed, but days later NYCPS rolled out an AI-enabled platform with generative AI features active. That makes it clear the policy isn't "AI is the problem." The real policy appears to be that AI is acceptable when it's centrally approved by NYCPS. If that's the case, the DOE should say so plainly instead of leaving principals to guess.

[Susan Edelman @SusanBEdelman]

Last week, @doechancellor told NYC principals to "pause" the purchase of ed-tech software pending further guidance on the use of AI.
Today, DOE HQ invited staff and students to use generative AI-enabled Adobe software to "create anything" such as images and videos.

[leonie haimson @leoniehaimson]

On #TalkoutofSchool we discussed @nycmayor education record 6 months in w/@michaelelsonroo including class size, SHSAT, gifted program, curriculum, contracts, privacy, AI & more; take a listen! https://t.co/cXoHpGWVb4

[Lynn Schulman 舒曼琳 @Lynn4NYC]

And yet @NYCSchools keeps refusing to respond to @SpeakerMenin's request for copies of consultant contracts. Just think about how what can be done for our city's students with the consulting $ identified as waste.

[Councilman Frank Morano @CMFrankMorano]

The DOE's transparency problem keeps getting worse.

I discuss the latest reporting from @SusanBEdelman, why I support @JulieMenin's push for answers, and why New Yorkers deserve accountability.

[Educators of NYC @educatorsofnyc]

@NYDailyNews @DC37nyc @UFT More here on the battle waging between @UFT Mulgrew and @DC37nyc Garrido

https://t.co/PYcbYFNFu3

[Educators of NYC @educatorsofnyc]

Perhaps you can also speak to leadership of @DC37nyc who has many titles that are as underpaid as paraprofessionals. Lunch workers, early childhood, school aides. EMT seeking parity with FDNY.

Were they lobbying FOR or AGAINST @UFT’s Intro 692-A as indicated in the NYC lobby search? The “repeal thereof”?

Is the newly amended bill just the work of city lawyers or pushback by other unions who may feel slighted that collective bargaining is being pushed aside for just one group only?

Rather than use their collective power in the MLC to push for action on ensuring a pathway for our city’s lowest paid workers in collective bargaining… are we watching internal in-fighting among the city’s largest unions?

Why not speak to the rank and file?

[Educators of NYC @educatorsofnyc]

Perhaps you can also speak to leadership of @DC37nyc who has many titles that are as underpaid as paraprofessionals. Lunch workers, early childhood, school aides. EMT seeking parity with FDNY.

Were they lobbying FOR or AGAINST @UFT’s Intro 692-A as indicated in the NYC lobby search? The “repeal thereof”?

Is the newly amended bill just the work of city lawyers or pushback by other unions who may feel slighted that collective bargaining is being pushed aside for just one group only?

Rather than use their collective power in the MLC to push for action on ensuring a pathway for our city’s lowest paid workers in collective bargaining… are we watching internal in-fighting among the city’s largest unions?

Why not speak to the rank and file?

[Educators of NYC @educatorsofnyc]

@cayla_bam and @NYDailyNews. Why are you perpetuating @UFT leadership’s talking points and misinformation about this bill?

1. There is zero internal mechanism in this bill that allows City Council or the mayor to reauthorize payments beyond August 2027, after it expires.

2. Section 5 of Intro-692-A says the bill is REPEALED if either the last of the payment is made or if a better deal is made in collective bargaining IN 2027.

It reads:

This local law takes effect immediately and expires…

And is DEEMED REPEALED

upon the payment of a workforce stabilization payment to all eligible school paraprofessionals,

or

upon the execution of a collective bargaining agreement or collective bargaining agreements that provide for an increase in the total annual compensation for all eligible school paraprofessionals equal to or greater than the amount of the workforce stabilization payments required pursuant to section two of this local law, whichever occurs first.

Please report this accurately and not parrot the selective talking points of union leadership.

Learn more here:

https://t.co/7hvUs2Ou7l

[Educators of NYC @educatorsofnyc]

@cayla_bam and @NYDailyNews. Why are you perpetuating @UFT leadership’s talking points and misinformation about this bill?

1. There is zero internal mechanism in this bill that allows City Council or the mayor to reauthorize payments beyond August 2027, after it expires.

2. Section 5 of Intro-692-A says the bill is REPEALED if either the last of the payment is made or if a better deal is made in collective bargaining IN 2027.

It reads:

This local law takes effect immediately and expires…

And is DEEMED REPEALED

upon the payment of a workforce stabilization payment to all eligible school paraprofessionals,

or

upon the execution of a collective bargaining agreement or collective bargaining agreements that provide for an increase in the total annual compensation for all eligible school paraprofessionals equal to or greater than the amount of the workforce stabilization payments required pursuant to section two of this local law, whichever occurs first.

Please report this accurately and not parrot the selective talking points of union leadership.

Learn more here:

https://t.co/7hvUs2Ou7l

[Educators of NYC @educatorsofnyc]

@cayla_bam and @NYDailyNews. Why are you perpetuating @UFT leadership’s talking points and misinformation about this bill?

1. There is zero internal mechanism in this bill that allows City Council or the mayor to reauthorize payments beyond August 2027, after it expires.

2. Section 5 of Intro-692-A says the bill is REPEALED if either the last of the payment is made or if a better deal is made in collective bargaining IN 2027.

It reads:

This local law takes effect immediately and expires…

And is DEEMED REPEALED

upon the payment of a workforce stabilization payment to all eligible school paraprofessionals,

or

upon the execution of a collective bargaining agreement or collective bargaining agreements that provide for an increase in the total annual compensation for all eligible school paraprofessionals equal to or greater than the amount of the workforce stabilization payments required pursuant to section two of this local law, whichever occurs first.

Please report this accurately and not parrot the selective talking points of union leadership.

More here: https://t.co/7hvUs2Ou7l

[New York Daily News @NYDailyNews]

Mayor Mamdani casts doubt on NYC Council plan to bolster pay of school paraprofessionals https://t.co/8ny059nHyv