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Parents and teachers raise concerns about staffing, building safety and an OSHA complaint at Nathan Hale and other schools
Summary
Teachers, parents and the New Haven Federation of Teachers told the Board of Education that recent Mondays exposed safety and staffing shortfalls in several schools, and the union has filed an OSHA complaint focused on two high schools.
Parents, a local teachers' union leader and other community members told the New Haven Board of Education on Feb. 12 that teacher vacancies, inconsistent substitutes and building operations failures have left students behind and raised safety concerns at Nathan Hale Elementary and other schools.
"For the past 2 Mondays in a row, staff, students, employees, families have showed up to our school buildings with icy lots, snow covered walkways, 50-degree classrooms, no hot water, and lack of paper products in our buildings," said Leslie Plateau, who identified herself as president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers. Plateau said the union filed an OSHA complaint focused on two large high schools where members are…
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