City Council pressures Mamdani to drop lawsuit blocking $10K payments to NYC teaching assistants
“We did not want to have to pass this bill,” said Speaker Julie Menin of Local Law 129 – which would issue emergency "workforce stabilization " checks to teaching assistants whose current starting salary is $32,000.
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