Governor Malloy’s budget proposal is anything but fair for Connecticut’s students and public schools, and legislators must reverse draconian cuts and stop underfunding public education, jeopardizing students’ futures.
The Connecticut Education Association is urging the State Board of Education (SBOE) to put students ahead of politics and reject charter school expansion efforts that are draining critical funds away from neighborhood public schools and causing irreparable harm to the state’s poorest school districts.
There’s no silver bullet when it comes to balancing the state budget and growing the economy, but we know that attacking working people is not the direction Connecticut should be taking.
While Governor Malloy’s message in his address to the General Assembly emphasized Connecticut’s tradition of fairness and concern for future generations, his budget proposal is anything but fair for Connecticut’s students and public schools.
The Connecticut Education Association and its 43,000 members are calling on Hartford HealthCare and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield to end their negotiating impasse.
The lawsuit filed by the Connecticut Education Association against Governor Malloy influenced the passage of the new state budget, and helped restore ECS funding to all of our schools.
The fight for a fair budget that invests in public education has ended in the legislature with a bipartisan agreement that does not substantially cut ECS funding or shift the cost of teacher retirement onto cities and towns.
Teachers stand together, unequivocally opposed to a teacher tax.
The Connecticut Education Association, the city of Torrington, the towns of Brooklyn and Plainfield, as well as teachers, students, and parents in those municipalities are taking the state to court over the loss of millions in education funding.
Our public schools are filled with teachers who recognize each student’s true potential and provide the encouragement, inspiration, and support to help every student achieve, because every student matters and every teacher matters.