Union Targets Mayor’s Ed Board Influence

by THOMAS BREEN New Haven Independent

Leaders of the city’s teachers union called for the school board to have two additional elected members — and for the mayor to be stripped of his ed-board voting powers.
Wilbur Cross High School teacher and New Haven Federation of Teachers (NHFT) executive board member Melody Gallagher put forward those proposals Thursday night during the first public hearing held by the recently empaneled Charter Revision Commission. 

The meeting took place in person in the Aldermanic Chamber on the second floor of City Hall.
The commission is charged with the once-a-decade responsibility of gathering testimony and issuing recommendations on how if at all to change the city’s foundational governing document. The commission will meet multiple times per month until mid-May, when it plans to send a report to the Board of Alders to review and vote on. The alders will then finalize a question, or multiple questions, about alterations to the charter that will appear on voters’ ballots in November.

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