{"id":115,"date":"2022-05-09T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/?p=115"},"modified":"2022-07-05T18:03:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T18:03:52","slug":"115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/2022\/05\/09\/115\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2022\/05\/bill-office-continuing-education-adult-literacy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ung Introduces Bill to Create Office of Continuing Education and Adult Literacy<\/a>, <em>QNS<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the City Council\u2019s stated meeting on May 5, City Council members&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2022\/04\/council-member-ung-dcwp-street-vendor-flushing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandra Ung<\/a>&nbsp;of Queens and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/kevin-riley\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Riley<\/a>&nbsp;of the Bronx introduced a bill that would create an Office of Continuing Education and Adult Literacy within the city government. Under the proposed legislation, the office would connect residents in underserved neighborhoods with adult training resources to improve workforce readiness, technological proficiency and literacy programs while also providing wraparound services addressing child care, food insecurity and mental wellness for adult learners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2022\/05\/bill-office-continuing-education-adult-literacy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ung Introduces Bill to Create Office of Continuing Education and Adult Literacy<\/a>, <em>QNS<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the City Council\u2019s stated meeting on May 5, City Council members&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2022\/04\/council-member-ung-dcwp-street-vendor-flushing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandra Ung<\/a>&nbsp;of Queens and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/kevin-riley\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Riley<\/a>&nbsp;of the Bronx introduced a bill that would create an Office of Continuing Education and Adult Literacy within the city government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/2022\/05\/09\/115\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}