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Public Employees & Higher Education News
July 25, 2024
Politico Playbook: Dems scramble to introduce Harris
Associated Press: Harris is propelling her presidential push with a speech to a teachers union already in her camp
July 22, 2024
ABC News: Labor unions start to unify behind Kamala Harris. Here’s why.
USA Today: Inside KamalaHQ: How Harris quickly began planning campaign after Biden’s shocking exit
July 19, 2024
Public News Service (with audio): Thousands of teachers expected in TX for their annual convention
July 18, 2024
Connecticut Public (with audio): Hartford school budget woes worry parents, advocates and teacher unions
July 17, 2024
NBC Connecticut News (video): Hartford teacher’s union says change is needed; 68 grievances filed this year
July 16, 2024
WTNH-TV Channel 8 News (with video): Hartford teachers union losing confidence in school district leadership
The Hill: Teachers union head glad Teamsters chief ‘savaged big business’ in RNC speech
July 15, 2024
The Courant: CT superintendent of schools under fire from unions amid state audit, fiscal struggle
Politico – Weekly Education Blog: ‘They’ve resorted to actual violence’: Educators respond to Trump attack
July 12, 2024
CT Insider: Blue Ribbon panel seeks answers to Hartford’s school issues
July 11, 2024
Associated Press: The GOP platform calls for ‘universal school choice.’ What would that mean for students?
July 10, 2024
WTNH-TV Channel 8 News (video): Hartford commission addressing city’s education challenges
The Courant: Poverty, low test scores, chronic underfunding: CT city mayor charges group to find solutions to improve schools
Associated Press: Biden looks to union leaders for support as he seeks to reassure worried Democrats
WFSB Channel 3 News (video): New commission announced following Hartford school budget shortfall
July 10, 2024
The Washington Post: Why are Democrats sticking with Biden? Ask the unions.
Associated Press: Biden will meet Wednesday with top union leaders as he seeks to reassure worried Democrats
July 8, 2024
Diverse Education: Educators, Officials to Gather for AFT National Convention
July 3, 2024
People’s World: First Amendment victory: Oklahoma Supreme Court vetoes public dollars for religious ‘charter school’
July 2, 2024
Yahoo Finance (with video): How the election could impact the education sector
People’s World: Supreme Court drives a stake through the heart of democracy
Word in Black: Teachers as Likely to Leave the Classroom Now as Last Year
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
Public Employees & Higher Education News
July 23, 2024
CT Mirror: CT sitting on $4.1 billion budget reserve. It could stop massive budget cuts in next recession
July 19, 2024
CT Mirror: Lamont spares higher ed from efficiency cuts to balance CT budget
July 18, 2024
Inside Higher Ed: AFT Launches Push for Academic Freedom, Job Security, College Access
Diverse Issues in Higher Education: AFT Launches ‘Real Solutions for Higher Education’ Campaign
Public News Service (with audio): Fighting for academic freedom, profs challenge FL’s ‘Stop WOKE’ Act
July 17, 2024
CT Insider: Connecticut and union leaders agree to reform disability pension system ‘to root out fraud’
July 10, 2024
The Courant: CT House GOP leader: State workers are ‘eating at the trough first’. Raises kicked in.
The CT Mirror: CT workers enjoy healthy raises despite ‘fiscal guardrails’
July 8, 2024
CT Insider: CT State Community College’s first year saw layoffs to close $33.6M deficit, more opportunities
July 5, 2024
Connecticut Public: CT students spend summer in limbo for potential tuition relief, as CSCU awaits $20M
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
July 23, 2024
KHOU*11 (with video): VP Kamala Harris to speak at American Federation of Teachers Convention in Houston Thursday, White House says
July 6, 2024
Republican-American: Unions take aim at Waterbury Hospital
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
July 18, 2024
Civic Media You Tube Channel (video): BustED Pencils LIVE – Thursday, July 18th, 2024
July 16, 2024
Education Week – Rick Hess Straight Up Blog: This Initiative Seeks to Redesign How We Staff Schools
July 15, 2024
Esquire Magazine – Column: Let’s Take a Closer Look at Trump’s Vice Presidential Pick, J.D. Vance, Shall We?
July 13, 2024
Dignity Memorial – Obituary: Virginia “Ginny” Lynch
July 11, 2024
Jacobin Magazine – Obituary: Jane McAlevey, Los Angeles Teachers, and Fighting to Win
July 9, 2024
Share My Lesson – Blog: Gun Violence Is a Public Health Crisis and Is the Leading Cause of Death for Children in America
July 8, 2024
Digital Memorial – Obituary: Andrea DiBella Johnson
July 3, 2024
Newsweek – Opinion: To Combat the STEM Worker Shortage, We Need to Create Pathways for Students
Science Magazine – Op-Ed: American academic freedom is in peril
July 2, 2024
Jacobin Magazine – Commentary: Why Did the UAW Lose in Alabama?
July 1, 2024
The Progressive: Debunking the School Choice Movement’s Top Evangelist
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