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Union and parents press board on staffing, pay equity, AC and mold concerns in New Haven schools
Summary
Union leaders and staff urged the New Haven Board of Education to address teacher/paraprofessional retention, pay disparities between long-term staff and new hires, building maintenance problems including air conditioning and mold, and delays in retroactive pay for eligible employees.
Union leaders, staff and parent representatives used public comment at the July 28 New Haven Board of Education meeting to press officials on staffing and facility problems, and to seek prompt resolution of retroactive-pay issues.
The nut graf: speakers said the district faces a retention problem — not only hiring — citing 18 new hires and 16 resignations and calling attention to pay compression between new hires and long-term staff, building systems failures (notably air-conditioning and mold), and delays in retroactive-pay processing for paraprofessionals.
Union representative Leslie Palatso, speaking as a union…
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