Next Steps--Getting Back on Track

While the CEA and AFT were effective at mobilizing forces to stave off the draconian reforms proposed by Malloy and Pryor, it is time to reflect on how we might have avoided this fight in the first place.


The fact of the matter is that we as teachers have allowed others to define us and define the work we do.   We have also stood by and watched as policies instituted by people motivated by profit trapped schools in a downward spiral resulting in the present education achievement gap.


This has left a vacuum where those same people whose short-sighted policies broke the system have now stepped in to claim the mantle of Fighters for Civil-Rights.

This has to stop.

Members of the two major teacher's unions in CT have begun discussing how to more effectively organize at the local level and get back to our grassroots.  This group, Connecticut Educators for Social Justice, is going to focus not only on issues dealing directly with improving education, but will also focus on other issues which affect the whole child such as:

• Health & nutritional issues
• Economic policy
• Family support issues
• and a variety of social justice issues

We are going to be looking to forge relationships with other groups such as Parents Across America and other unions.  If we are going to effective counter the power of the billionaires looking for more profit, we are going to need to stand together.

To find more information about this group, read our statement.

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