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Public Employees & Higher Education News
April 24, 2024
Audacity: Hartford school parents call on city, state to prevent layoffs by closing budget gap
The Courant: Parents and students march to CT Capitol to protest education cuts. Why over 300 jobs are at risk
April 23, 2024
WFSB Channel 3 News (video): Students and parents not happy about Hartford education budget cuts
Diverse Issues in Higher Education: Report: Student Interest in Pursuing Careers in Education on the Decline, But Enrollment in Intro Teaching Courses Rises
April 22, 2024
CT Insider: School districts across CT likely to cut jobs, programs in coming months as money runs out
CT Insider: ‘This district is a hot mess’: Hartford parents speak out against cuts to city’s school budget
April 21, 2024
CT Insider: Following passage of Hartford school budget, district braces for cuts, pushes for more funding
April 20, 2024
New Haven Register: New Haven residents speak in support of education funding at final budget hearing
April 19, 2024
New Haven Independent: Students, Paras Press For Budget Boost
April 18, 2024
Hartford Courant: There were passionate please to prevent ‘disaster.’ Then a CT school board adopted a budget with drastic cuts
April 14, 2024
USA Today: Moms for Liberty co-founder tells American parents they have something in common with Trump
April 11, 2024
ABC News (with video): Lawmakers of color propose more school funding to diversify mental health field
April 10, 2024
The Courant: Lawmakers’ plan to stop wave of CT kids from being disconnected advances
April 9, 2024
CT Insider: Advocates, lawmakers stress the need to continue campaign for better air quality in CT schools
EdSource: Teachers union launches ad campaign promoting community schools
April 6, 2024
The Record-Journal: Students, parents, teachers rally for $9m funding increase in Meriden as BOE presents budget to city
New Haven Register: New Haven mayor cuts schools requested budget increase from $16 million to $5 million
April 5, 2024
NBC Connecticut News (with video): Hartford Public School teachers and staff find out whether their jobs are safe
April 4, 2024
WTNH Channel 8 News: Meriden Board of Education seeks $9M budget increase to safeguard student learning
Parents: Study Asks Teachers To Rate Their Job Satisfaction—And It’s Not Good
April 3, 2024
WTNH Channel 8 News (Video): Hartford Public Schools plans to cut nearly 400 positions next school year
Newsweek: American Children Are Struggling Academically
March 31, 2024
The Hechinger Report: Vague school rules at the root of millions of student suspensions
March 28, 2024
Education Week: What’s Missing From States’ Reading Laws? The Role of Content Knowledge
NBC News – Today: 7 things teachers want you to know about AI in education
March 27, 2024
Sundiata Post: Unwavering International Solidarity for Ukraine: Teachers and Students in View
March 26, 2024
Independent: Survey shows opportunity for Biden’s 2024 campaign on student debt relief
March 25, 2024
Yale Daily News: New Haveners weigh in on proposed budget
The Cornell Daily Sun: Randi Weingarten ’80 Leads Course About Intersection of Politics, Labor, Education
Public Employees & Higher Education News
April 24, 2024
CT Examiner: Republicans Offer Little Support for 4.5% Raise for Government Employees
CT Insider: General Assembly approves $70 million in raises for about 46,000 unionized CT workers
April 23, 2024
The Daily Campus: Protests over budget cuts continue at Board of Trustees meeting
WTNH-TV Channel 8 News (with video): Connecticut state employees get 2.5% raise
The CT Mirror: Legislature OKs 2.5% raise plus step hike for most CT employees
News 12 CT (with video): Lawmakers approve state worker pay raises, but can CT afford it?
CT News Junkie: Legislature Approves Up To 4.5% Raise For Some State Employees
April 20, 2024
Connecticut Post: Negotiations aim to overhaul CT’s disability pension system for the first time in decades
April 19, 2024
Inside Higher Ed: Columbia President Accused of Dishonest Testimony, Throwing Professors ‘Under the Bus’
Diverse Issues in Higher Education: Scholars Decry Columbia University’s Arrest of Pro-Palestine Protesters
April 18, 2024
Inside Higher Ed: Faculty Unions Seeking Formal AI Guidelines
April 17, 2024
CT Insider: UConn faculty member says decision to slash budget ‘hangs over us all’
CT Examiner: UConn Puts Onus on Academics as $70M Shortfall Leaves No Easy Answers
NY Times: Columbia’s President Tells Congress That Action Is Needed Against Antisemitism
April 16, 2024
Inside Higher Ed: ‘You Are in the Crosshairs’: Higher Ed Braces for Another Antisemitism Hearing
The Center Square: Connecticut lawmakers approve 2.5% raises for state workers
April 14, 2024
Fox 61 with video: UConn budget back-and-fourth | The Real Story
April 13, 2024
CT Insider: Pay hikes enter debate over UConn’s budget. ‘The only thing left for them to do is raise tuition’
April 12, 2024
The CT Mirror: Budget panel OKs 2.5% raise for most CT state workers
CT News Junkie: Appropriations Confirms Final Year Of SEBAC Contract, Sending It On To House And Senate
CT Examiner: Lamont Negotiates Wage Hike for State Employees
Inside Higher Ed: National Protest Day Planned Against ‘Attacks’ on Higher Ed
April 11, 2024
CT Mirror: Lamont won’t help lawmakers leave gaps in next CT budget
Inside Higher Ed: Full-time Faculty Raises Finally Beat Inflation … Just Barely
The Hill: Warren hammers student loan servicer MOHELA at hearing: ‘Truly shocking’
Times Higher Education: US faculty and campus leaders split wider over free speech
April 9, 2024
Diverse Issues in Higher Education: Faculty Groups To Hold National Day of Action April 17
April 8, 2024
Diverse Issues in Higher Education: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Plans for Debt Relief
April 6, 2024
News 12 CT – Power & Politics (with video): Tuition relief on the way for students at Connecticut state colleges and universities?
April 4, 2024
News 12 Connecticut: CT lawmakers back more money for colleges. But how much is a mystery
WSHU Public Radio: CT Comptroller seeks accountability over disability benefits
April 3, 2024
The Bulletin: Three Rivers CC students, faculty picket for more funding: why are the issues?
CT Insider: CT Comptroller proposes series of reforms to state disability pension system after CT Insider report
April 1, 2024
Inside Higher Ed: Black Scholars Face Anonymous Accusations in Anti-DEI Crusade
The Day: Staff, students gather in Norwich to protest cuts to community college system
WTNH Channel 8 News (Video): Students urge Connecticut to allocate more money for higher education
March 30, 2024
The Day: Three Rivers students to protest cutbacks at state’s newly consolidated community colleges
The Washington Post: Student loan servicer MOHELA tells advocacy group to stop ‘misleading claims’
March 29, 2024
CT Insider: Top CT officials vow sweeping reforms of state disability pension system after CT Insider investigation
March 27, 2024
CT Insider: The curious case of a Connecticut state senator’s disability pension reveals shortfalls in system
April 25, 2024
Patch: Nurses Picket Outside Danbury Hospital: Report
NBC Connecticut (with video): Nurses picketing outside Danbury Hospital
Fox 61 (with video): Nurses picketed outside of Danbury Hospital on Thursday
News Times: Danbury Hospital nurses demonstrate for higher pay: ‘We’re the ones who hold the hospital together’
April 3, 2024
CT Insider: Hospital consolidation in CT has led to higher costs, fewer services, report says
April 2, 2024
Healthcare Business News: Yale New Haven gets OK to move forward with acquisition of three Prospect hospitals
April 26, 2024
The Courant – Opinion: Why UConn Health should expand
April 24, 2024
CT Mirror: Opinion: Nurturing ALL of CT’s young is sound fiscal policy
April 22, 2024
The Nation – Commentary: The Education Factory
April 19, 2024
CT Mirror – Opinion: Protect CT public legal professionals from harassment
April 17, 2024
CT Mirror – Opinion: Stop misleading the public about the bill to stop FOI harassment of faculty
EdSource – Commentary: Community college faculty should all be allowed to work full time
April 16, 2024
Common Dreams: The Case for Teaching at the End of the World
April 14, 2024
Transistor – Teachers Unify Podcast (audio): Survivor Stories: Cyrena Arokium
April 11, 2024
Spotify – Working History Podcast (audio): Beyond Norma Rae
April 10, 2024
CT Viewpoints – Commentary: CT – Rich state, inequitable state
April 8, 2024
CT Viewpoints – Commentary: In closing birthing centers, CT fails to protect reproductive health rights
April 5, 2024
CT Insider – Opinion: Rethink spending priorities
Fortune – Opinion: Union leaders: Larry Fink is right about the retirement crisis Americans are facing–but he can’t tell the truth about the failure of the ‘401(k) revolution’
April 1, 2024
Regulating AI Podcast (You Tube Video): Harnessing AI for Equitable Education with Randi Weingarten, President of AFT
March 25, 2024
The Daily Campus – Editorial: New CLAS departments raise questions about budget concerns
The American Prospect: The Marginal Realists of Standing Together