BRIDGEPORT — The city school district’s decision to sign onto the state’s employee health care plan is intended to erase $2.5 million from its anticipated 2018-19 operating shortfall while providing staff with comparable coverage and benefits. The Bridgeport Education Association essentially agrees, according to its attorney, but still has filed a grievance, maintaining the district violated its contract by not first negotiating the change. “The board doesn’t have the right to make the change unilaterally,” Eric Marshall, an attorney representing the teachers union, told the school board meeting in special session on Monday. “The only way for the board to move to the state health plan is through negotiations with the BEA.
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