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Teachers Strike Revisited - New Haven Independent The fourth annual Judith Ann Schiff Women’s History Program at the New Haven Museum Sunday highlighted the often-overlooked role Jewish women played in shaping labor activism in the city, including th...

“I felt that it was really important for the children to know what was happening,” #FundOurFutureCT

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UConn, CSCU advocates condemn state funding 'disaster,' demand more dollars for public higher education in CT Connecticut public higher education institutions face massive budget shortfalls in the upcoming fiscal year.

"Let's be clear, the strain on higher education is not a failure of our students or our faculty and staff. It is a result of policy choices. Connecticut has the resources to do better." #thectdifference #FundOurFutureCT #FundOurFuture @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org

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CT schools on Lamont's K-12 budget: 'A trainwreck for education' Districts say they're near a breaking point after years without state baseline funding adjustments. Many say costs fall to local taxpayers.

“It’s extremely difficult. You want to do the best, absolute best that you can for your students. But... it just has become impossible to continue to do the job at the level that we want to.” #FundOurFutureCT @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social

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Unions To Yale: Pay City $110M Per Year - New Haven Independent At the heart of Yale's campus on Monday, several dozen people gathered for a union-led rally where they urged the university to more than quadruple its annual payments to New Haven for each of the nex...

“We do not need charity from Yale University. Rather, we must, as #MLK explained in 1967, undergo a ‘radical revolution of values,' which requires Yale to start paying what they owe to this city.” #FundOurFutureCT @aftteach.bsky.social @leslieblatteau.bsky.social

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Board of education, mayor at odds over construction pause at school called unsafe. ‘It robs kids’ The Board of Education is seeking legal counsel over health concerns at an elementary school where construction was put on hold.

“It makes you feel like the city has given up on them. I am concerned about the health of students in all of these schools and they need to do mold testing.” #FundOurFutureCT @hft1018.bsky.social

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Delayed Repairs to Hartford Elementary School Prompt Lawsuit Haven’t subscribed yet? Click here to subscribe. CT Examiner is just $20 a year. A one-month trial subscription is just $5. And if you want to unsubscribe? That’s online and […]

“You can’t pause a leaking roof, and mold does not wait for a fiscal report,” #FundOurFutureCT @hft1018.bsky.social

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CT community schools speak out after losing $4M in federal grants Canceled grants came from Full-Service Community Schools, a program that funds partnerships between schools and nonprofit service providers.

“At a time when we want to continue to make improvements to student achievement, student attendance and mental health — we learned that the programs designed to provide that support are illegally terminated at the eleventh hour.” #FundOurFutureCT

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Union leaders, city officials tout contract for public school teachers The new contract for the city’s public school teachers, which the Board of Education approved Monday night, gives teachers a raise and better healthcare coverage. Mayor Justin Elicker said the teacher...

“the union has worked to ensure that “respect isn’t just a slogan or a talking point, but something tangible that our members will actually see in their take home pay in the next three years.” #FundOurFutureCT

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Teachers Union, NHPS Reach Tentative Deal - New Haven Independent After months of negotiations that almost landed in arbitration, the city's teachers union has reached a tentative agreement with the public school district for a new contract that would include a 13 p...

“We’re excited that we’ve arrived at a tentative agreement for a new contract for our teachers with the leadership of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, and we are hopeful that it will be approved by the union’s membership and the Board of Education,” #FundOurFutureCT

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Connecticut waits as filing is due Monday in lawsuit over imperiled school programs Three Connecticut community school programs are among those reported to lose federal funding.

"Pulling this funding mid-year forces our districts into an impossible choice between cutting essential services or facing insolvency" #FundOurFutureCT

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Amid Contract "Impasse," Teachers Union Readies For Arbitration - New Haven Independent The city's teachers union warned that it is prepared to go to arbitration -- a step that hasn't been taken in a quarter century -- as contract negotiations with the city and Board of Education stall o...

“Dr. Negrón, Mayor Elicker, and the New Haven Board of Education have forced us to declare impasse and prepare for arbitration after close to three months of contract negotiations,” #FundOurFutureCT

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Smyth Opens the Floor: Listening Session Launches Public Input Process | Nancy on Norwalk Mayor-elect Barbara Smyth speaks with a resident. (Photo by Ashley RK Smith) NORWALK, Conn. — Mayor-elect Barbara Smyth hosted the first of two public liste ...

“We want to get as much feedback from the community as possible to shape our priorities moving into my first year, and this will be a great help in doing that.” #FundOurFutureCT

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CT should rethink teacher layoff policies that prioritize seniority, report says Roughly 1,500 teachers of color in Connecticut may be subject to a last-in-first-out layoff, the report found.

“Let’s not get caught up in ‘best practices’ for laying off educators, particularly when there are abundant resources to make the investments all our communities’ schools deserve," #FundOurFutureCT

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CT educators slam mayor’s decision to pause school renovation projects. ‘This is about safety’ Educators are speaking out against the decision to pause the school renovations, a move they say threatens the safety of staff and students.

“HFT is deeply concerned about the mayor’s unilateral pause on school construction for six Hartford schools,” #FundOurFutureCT @hft1018.bsky.social

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“Come to the table ready to finalize the agreement, one that provides fair compensation and reasonable health coverage for the educators who make this district work every single day,” #FundOurFutureCT

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CT meets milestone in desegregation settlement. Why educators say disparity persists In Connecticut’s landmark civil rights case, Sheff V. O’Neill, some officials fear the remedy has exacerbated the segregation and inequity of schools.

“Every time we place a child in another magnet school the money follows the child and Hartford gets that much less.” #FundOurFutureCT @hft1018.bsky.social

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Opinion: Keeping teaching a worthy profession The “teacher shortage” is fueled not by lower numbers of individuals entering the field, but by rapidly growing numbers of educators leaving it.

“The “teacher shortage” is far more akin to a famine than to a drought, as it stems largely (though unintentionally) from policy and budgetary choices that have been made over the decades by elected officials.” #FundOurFutureCT @csuaaup.bsky.social

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High School Interns Train With Teachers Union - New Haven Independent As NHFT takes on first non-college student interns.

"...our working conditions are students’ learning conditions...it only makes sense to push for district improvements together." #FundOurFutureCT @leslieblatteau.bsky.social

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"Facility issues disrupt teaching and learning and have a negative impact on the recruitment and retention of teachers in New Haven. We cannot wait any longer for healthy and safe schools.” #FundOurFutureCT @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social

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New Haven Public Schools sees improvements in chronic absenteeism since 2021 The efforts made by New Haven Public Schools to address student chronic absenteeism appear to be working, according to the latest data.  During Monday’s Board of Education meeting, Dr. Gemma Joseph-Lu...

"We know we can make school even more engaging and improve attendance by lowering class size so students can get more individualized attention, to work to develop case load caps," #FundOurFutureCT

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Schools’ facilities spending far less than regional average, report finds At a Monday meeting, the New Haven Board of Education discussed a report that found that New Haven Public Schools’ average spending per square foot on buildings is significantly lower than both the st...

“Yes, there’s two Connecticuts, but there’s also two New Havens, there’s Yale that can fund any and every whim, and then there’s New Haven Public Schools that’s always operating at a financial deficit, and that hurts our kids.” #FundOurFutureCT @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social

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Striking Teachers Teach A Lesson By Making An Archive - New Haven Independent Nearly 50 years to the day after a historic city teachers union strike, some 50 veterans of that time gathered at the New Haven Museum Saturday with photos, artifacts, documents, and stories about the...

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the 1975 New Haven Teachers Strike - one of the most significant events in modern #laborhistory in Connecticut. #FundOurFutureCT @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social

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Teachers’ union, students rally for improved pay, healthcare benefits The New Haven Federation of Teachers called for improved teacher pay, a new healthcare program and a revised school safety policy at a Monday rally outside a Board of Education meeting.

“We want schools that are fully staffed, teachers who stay in New Haven — who live in New Haven because our pay finally catches up to the surrounding towns and our health benefits are no longer managed by greedy insurance companies in Hartford,” #FundOurFutureCT

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Threats by the thousands and injuries: CT teachers facing increased student aggression in schools In Connecticut classrooms, student behavior is the most pressing in education today, teachers and education advocates say.

“Over the last few years there has been an increase in teacher worker compensation issues occurring, often due to student outbursts.” #FundOurFutureCT @hft1018.bsky.social

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State extends a lifeline to paraeducators struggling with high health insurance costs The state of Connecticut will distribute $10 million to school districts to assist with health insurance costs for paraeducators.

“This stipend for paraeducators will help reduce health care costs. It is a long overdue step toward improving recruitment and retention.” #FundOurFutureCT

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New Haven Public Schools unveils more detailed line-item budget After months of advocacy for increased financial transparency, the school district’s chief financial officer broke down how the district will pay for more than 100 types of expenditures in the 2025-26...

After months of advocacy for increased financial transparency, the school district’s chief financial officer broke down how the district will pay for more than 100 types of expenditures in the 2025-26 fiscal year. @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social #FundOurFutureCT #RealSolutions

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Happening now: #union leaders join Comptroller @seanscanlonct.bsky.social to announce #paraprofessionals’ healthcare subsidy to continue thru '26. #FundOurFutureCT @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @psrp-aft.bsky.social @aflcio.org @ctaflcio.bsky.social @council4.bsky.social @cseaseiu2001.bsky.social

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