Choose from the menu below to select local, state and national union-related news media clips by division. Opinion pieces, regardless of the relevant membership constituency, are listed separately.
Public Employees & Higher Education News
March 26, 2026
Yale Daily News: School district leaders present to alders plan to improve facilities
New Haven Independent: People Join Puppets, Paper Cranes To Cry, “No Kings!”
NBC News (with video): Teachers union leader blasts Melania Trump’s robot pitch: ‘Every parent’s nightmare’
Common Dreams: ‘The Current Tax Code Is Rigged,’ Plus 6.2 Trillion Other Reasons to Tax America’s Ultrarich
March 25, 2026
CT Insider: Hartford school district raises pay for special education, high-need teachers
March 23, 2026
CT Insider: See where ‘No Kings’ protests are being held in Connecticut this weekend
March 20, 2026
New Haven Independent: Overworked, Not Lazy: Teachers Push Back On Absences Report
Education Week: Teachers Move Beyond AI Basics to More Sophisticated Instructional Uses
March 16, 2026
Innovation Map: Austin company to bring AI-powered school to The Woodlands
March 12, 2026
K12 Dive: 42 states allot smaller portion of funds to K-12 compared to 20 years ago, report says
March 11, 2026
CT Insider: City manager proposes $2.3M increase for Meriden Public Schools as district seeks more state funding
Axios: OpenAI bets on union labor to scale AI infrastructure
March 9, 2026
The CT Mirror: Should CT adopt a cellphone ban in schools? Lawmakers to decide
March 6, 2026
CNN (with video): ‘I was the last person in the US that he knew’: Teachers face the deportation crackdown taking students away
March 5, 2026
Nancy on Norwalk: Norwalk BET probes school grants, special education costs during budget review
Yale Daily News: New Haven students lobby in Hartford for more public school funds
Yale Daily News: Alders debate administrators’ pay before OK’ing new school contracts
March 4, 2026
New Haven Independent: Students Return To Hartford For $chools Push
Fortune: The average American teacher makes $72,000, but one in three are so broke they’re taking on side hustles like Uber driving
The Verge: Inside the secret meeting that led to the AI political resistance
March 2, 2026
New Haven Independent: Teachers Strike Revisited
Salon: The people standing between students and ICE? Teachers
Public Employees & Higher Education News
March 25, 2026
The CT Mirror: CT House approves contract with new round of state worker raises
March 23, 2026
Inside Higher Ed: Dozens of Organizations Urge Congress to Plug Pell Funding Gap
March 21, 2026
CT Insider: Why Connecticut could shield college course syllabuses from the public
March 17, 2026
CT Insider: 3,700 Connecticut state workers would get 7.5% pay boost over 3 years under tentative labor deal
Higher Ed Dive: Does requiring professors to post their syllabi threaten free speech?
March 16, 2026
Inside Higher Ed: Writing Faculty Push for the Right to Refuse AI
The 19th: ‘The cruelty is just the point’: A broken student loan system has women at the center
March 12, 2026
CT Insider: Hundreds of Connecticut state employees, critical of lagging contract talks, rally in state Capitol
March 9, 2026
TruthOut: The Fight to Defend Pro-Palestine Speech on Campus Isn’t Over
March 6, 2026
Yale Daily News: Provost forms faculty committee to write academic freedom statement
February 28, 2026
The Courant: Reality of cuts to UConn research funds emerges. ‘There’s just this aura of awfulness’: professor.
March 8, 2026
The Courant: A CT nurse was slain in 2023 and violence continues. Now there’s pushback on proposed warning system
March 6, 2026
CT Insider: Top Connecticut hospital CEOs get big raises as health care industry faces financial strain
March 5, 2026
The Courant: Now-bankrupt former hospital owner still owes $127M in taxes. Can CT recoup it?
March 26, 2026
CT Insider – Opinion: Connecticut health system CEOS make $5M+. A nurse earns $40.02 an hour. Change is overdue
March 20, 2026
CT Examiner – Op-Ed: Hartford’s New Pay Raise for Special Educators Won’t Benefit Me, But It’s Still the Right Call.
March 10, 2026
The Atlantic – Ideas: Trump’s Assault on Higher Education Has Hit a Snag
