“I felt that it was really important for the children to know what was happening,” #FundOurFutureCT
"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
“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
“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
“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
“You can’t pause a leaking roof, and mold does not wait for a fiscal report,” #FundOurFutureCT @hft1018.bsky.social
“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
“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
“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
"Pulling this funding mid-year forces our districts into an impossible choice between cutting essential services or facing insolvency" #FundOurFutureCT
“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
“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
“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
“HFT is deeply concerned about the mayor’s unilateral pause on school construction for six Hartford schools,” #FundOurFutureCT @hft1018.bsky.social
“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
“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
“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
"...our working conditions are students’ learning conditions...it only makes sense to push for district improvements together." #FundOurFutureCT @leslieblatteau.bsky.social
"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
"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
“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
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
“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
“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
“This stipend for paraeducators will help reduce health care costs. It is a long overdue step toward improving recruitment and retention.” #FundOurFutureCT
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
#FundOurFutureCT @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @aflcio.org @ctaflcio.bsky.social @leslieblatteau.bsky.social
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