The James Logan Courier

By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations

New Haven Unified School District teachers voted Monday to work and be paid for nine fewer days than during a normal school year and to take an additional 1 percent pay cut to help mitigate cuts forced on the District because of the ongoing state budget crisis. And the District reached tentative, identical agreements Monday with classified employees and administrators.

Members of the New Haven Teachers Association voted 258-76 to approve adjustments to their existing contract that will cost a typical teacher nearly $7,500 during the 2012-13 school year.

From Wikipedia:
Harold Edward "Red" Grange, nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost", (June 13, 1903 – January 28, 1991) was a college and professional American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and for the short-lived New York Yankees. His signing with the Bears helped legitimize the National Football League. He was a charter member of both the College and Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 2008, he was named the best college football player of all time by ESPN, and in 2011, he was named the Greatest Big Ten Icon by the Big Ten Network.

Grange was born in Forksville, Pennsylvania as the third child of Sadie and Lyle Grange. His father was the foreman of three lumber camps. When he was five, his mother died and his father moved the family to Wheaton, Illinois, where four brothers had settled. When they arrived, Grange’s father worked hard and became the chief of police.


Visit the Red Grange exhibit at the Professional Football Hall of Fame.