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K’Sisay Sadiki performed her solo show on January 31 and February 1 at University Settlement. In honor of Black History Month, we share with you K’Sisay story of growing up as a child of Black Panthers. — SOPHIA DAWSON “As we left the courtroom, [a friend] was standing in the hallway with K’Sisay, Kamau’s two-year-old […]
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University Settlement Society of New York is pleased to announce that it has been selected by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) as a host organization for the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program. The Public Fellows program promotes the visibility and value of the humanities PhD beyond the academy by offering opportunities for PhDs to take on
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University Settlement For Immediate Release: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 Contact: Rachel Levine, rlevine@universitysettlement.org University Settlement Announced as Complete Count Fund Awardee Joining Citywide Effort to Ensure a Fair and Complete Count New York, NY— University Settlement is pleased to announce it has received a $100,000 award from the NYC Complete Count Fund — a partnership between CUNY,
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Contact: Amy R, Brenna 917.592.0624 abrenna@universitysettlement.org University Settlement’s Statement on New York City’s Labor Agreement on Salary Parity of Early Childhood Education (New York, NY) July 10, 2019 – Yesterday’s announcement that Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson had reached an agreement to fund a path to salary parity for many of our
In collaboration with Campaign for Children and other partners, we’re pulling out all the stops this week and next to make our voices heard as we fight for salary parity for our dedicated and talented early childhood staff. Participate in a Twitter rally on Tuesday, June 4. Sample tweets can be found here. Call and email
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By Sydney Pereira, Patch Staff | May 14, 2019 3:15 pm ET | Updated May 15, 2019 2:01 pm ET Allure Group has another 3.5 years to open a health facility on the Lower East Side. (Shutterstock) LOWER EAST SIDE, NY — Allure Group, the nursing home operator caught in the scandal regarding a lifted deed restriction at the former
Photo by Adi Talwar Wanda Ruiz teaching her universal Pre-K class for 4- to 5-year-old children at the Chung Pak Day Care Center on Walker Street. The daycare center is a part of the Chinese-American Planning Council, Inc. If Bill de Blasio does decide to run for president, his signature program—universal pre-kindergarten—figures to be important
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PHOTO: Christina Veiga/Chalkbeat Yvette Ho, right, taps out a request to NYCHA to fix a leaky roof at CPC Jacob Riis Child Care Center. Meanwhile, a student shows her art project to Mary Cheng, who oversees early childhood programs for the Chinese-American Planning Council, a nonprofit that runs the daycare. The tables where children would normally
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University Settlement stands in opposition of the proposed changes to the ‘Public Charge’ rule. The federal administration’s proposed expansion of the ‘Public Charge’ rule to include Medicaid, SNAP, and/or housing assistance programs threatens ALL immigrants and ALL New Yorkers by placing more vulnerable children and families at-risk. For over 130 years, University Settlement has sought
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Each year University Settlement impacts 40,000 New Yorkers who come from 50 countries and speak 40 different languages. Every September we begin new 10-month intensive classes in our Adult Literacy Program. Valikhan, a participant in the program, tells us what University Settlement’s program has meant to him, in his own words. In Kazakhstan I was
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