{"id":3226,"date":"2026-08-19T16:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2026-08-19T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:00:00","slug":"joint-statement-from-speaker-julie-menin-and-council-member-carmen-de-la-rosa-on-the-mamdani-administrations-lawsuit-against-the-respect-check-act-for-paraprofessionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2026\/08\/19\/3226\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Statement from Speaker Julie Menin and Council Member Carmen De La Rosa on the Mamdani Administration&#8217;s Lawsuit Against the RESPECT Check Act for Paraprofessionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NEW YORK \u2013&nbsp;<\/strong>Today, the Mamdani Administration filed a lawsuit against the RESPECT Check Act, which would require the City to issue workforce stabilization payments totaling up to $10,000 to paraprofessionals employed by the Board of Education. In response, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Council Member Carmen De La Rosa issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEvery member of the Council, in a unanimous and bipartisan vote, supported the RESPECT Check Act because it is unacceptable that paraprofessionals who support some of our highest-need students are earning as little as $32,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This law is not only the right thing to do, it is also the fiscally responsible thing to do, helping address the staffing shortages that contribute to the City\u2019s $1.5 billion in Carter case costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Council will vigorously defend the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>###<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK \u2013&nbsp;<\/strong>Today, the Mamdani Administration filed a lawsuit against the RESPECT Check Act, which would require the City to issue workforce stabilization payments totaling up to $10,000 to paraprofessionals employed by the Board of Education. In response, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Council Member Carmen De La Rosa issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery member of the Council, in a unanimous and bipartisan vote, supported the RESPECT Check Act because it is unacceptable that paraprofessionals who support some of our highest-need students are earning as little as $32,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2026\/08\/19\/3226\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3228,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}