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Public Employees & Higher Education News
July 1, 2024
The Progressive: Debunking the School Choice Movement’s Top Evangelist
June 28, 2024
Independent: The Supreme Court just ended ‘Chevron.’ What does that mean and how far will its impact reach?
ABC News (with video): Biden-Trump debate triggers alarm among top business leaders: ‘Awful’
June 26, 2024
New Haven Register: Manchester schools cut 11 new or vacant positions to help achieve $1.6 million reduction
June 25, 2024
The Hill: Teachers turn to AI
Common Dreams: Oklahoma Supreme Court Blocks First US Religious Public Charter School
June 24, 2024
New Haven Register: West Haven superintendent shuffles principals at 5 schools
June 22, 2024
USA Today: Jay Z makes a final push on failing public schools, backing school vouchers
June 21, 2024
New Haven Independent: Union Chiefs: Schools Are For People
June 18, 2024
The American Prospect: Teachers in the South Go Union
Chalkbeat: Teachers’ job stress has improved to pre-pandemic levels. They’re still pretty stressed out.
Fortune: America’s teachers are among the most burned out, stressed out, unfairly paid workers in society, survey finds. ‘They should be lionized’
June 15, 2024
TruthOut: Schools Are Divesting From Arts Education as COVID-Era Federal Funds Evaporate
June 12, 2024
Education Week: Why Jay-Z Is a Key Figure in the School Voucher Debate
New Haven Independent: Teachers, Paras: Don’t Make Staff Cuts
June 11, 2024
WTNH News Channel 8 (video): Dozens of layoffs could be coming to New Haven schools if funds cannot be found
NBC Connecticut (video): New Haven Public Schools seek to fill $12 million budget shortfall
June 10, 2024
Fox 61 News (video): School board in New Haven lays out mitigation plan for dealing with budget deficit
June 9, 2024
The Hour: Norwalk schools to reduce seven central office jobs, reassign teachers due to budget cuts
June 8, 2024
The Courant: CT’s education department wants to thank school staff but they’re looking for help
June 7, 2024
New Haven Independent: Teachers Union Awards 10 Scholarships
June 6, 2024
CT Insider: Connecticut Department of Education steps in to oversee Hartford schools’ finances
New Haven Register: New Haven schools consider cutting up to 65 positions to address smaller budget increase
NBC Connecticut News (video): New Haven superintendent on looming budget gap for upcoming school year
NBC Connecticut News (video): State Board of Education OKs closer look at Hartford schools’ finances
New Haven Independent: Schools Superintendent Eyes 61 Layoffs
June 5, 2024
NBC Today: Educators share 6 fun ways to help kids avoid summer learning loss
The Courant: State gets OK to oversee CT city’s school finances. The most recent budget had called for hundreds of layoffs
The Washington Post: Independent Amazon Labor Union moves to affiliate with Teamsters
June 2, 2024
The CT Mirror: End of pandemic funding could spell disaster for some CT schools
Public Employees & Higher Education News
June 29, 2024
The New York Times: Student Loan Payments Paused for 3 Million in SAVE Program
June 28, 2024
New Haven Independent: Union VP: Biden’s Still Best
June 27, 2024
CT Mirror: CT savings program drives another $1 billion-plus surplus
June 26, 2024
Diverse Education: Report: Higher Education Administration Pay Soars as Faculty Pay Lags
Higher Ed Dive: Salaries for full-time faculty tick up 0.4% after inflation, AAUP finds
June 22, 2024
USA Today: The ACT’s new ties to a private equity firm are raising eyebrows
June 21, 2024
The CT Mirror: In CT government jobs, diversity and pay gaps remain, study finds
June 14, 2024
States Newsroom – Stateline: Backlash against DEI spreads to more states
June 13, 2024
CT Examiner: Connecticut State Community College’s $8M Misstep in Hiring Advisors Strains Budget
June 12, 2024
CT Mirror: CSCU, faculty union still at odds over spending plan
WTNH News Channel 8: Connecticut State Colleges and Universities to receive $80M in emergency funding
June 10, 2024
Inside Higher Ed: Colleges in Republicans’ Crosshairs Enroll Only a Sliver of U.S. College Students
June 6, 2024
The CT Mirror: Unions blast Lamont, consultants over UConn hospital privatization
The CT Mirror: New CT budget leaves huge gap one year down the road
June 5, 2024
CT Public: ‘Blueprint’ report lays out options to treat what ails UConn Health’s finances
Times Higher Education: US campus protests expose special risk for adjuncts
June 22, 2024
Republican-American: Severe understaffing, legal uncertainty could threaten patient care at Waterbury Hospital, union says
June 21, 2024
Politico – Future Pulse Blog: Teaching doctors to unionize
June 3, 2024
CT Insider: UConn Health hospital merger suggested in new report
June 1, 2024
The Courant: UConn Health has lost money for decades. Will mergers or private partnerships get it on track?
Republican-American: Waterbury Hospital faces state complaint over staffing law compliance amid concerns for patient safety
June 27, 2024
Center for Law and Social Policy – Blog: Queer Liberation in the Labor Movement
June 26, 2024
CNBC (video): AFT President on using AI in the classroom: The human can never be substituted by the machine
June 25, 2024
Foreign Policy – Argument: The U.S. Right Is Copying Hungary’s Attack on Adoption
June 20, 2024
CT News Junkie – Analysis: Why most other states use medicaid cos and why Connecticut doesn’t
CounterPunch – Opinion: How Donald Trump Worked to Destroy America’s Labor Unions
June 18, 2024
CT Mirror: Opinion: Connecticut, follow Massachusetts’ lead and implement a millionaire tax
June 11, 2024
N+1 Magazine – Interview: Do Much More to Meet This Moment
June 4, 2024
The CT Mirror – Long Story Short Podcast (audio): CT schools brace for the end of pandemic funding
June 3, 2024
New Haven Independent: Opinion: Our Paras Matter