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School Is Where the Heart Is
The coronavirus may have closed school buildings, but it has also revealed the determination and resolve of educators to help their students. This pandemic has also exposed a great divide. Some...
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Teachers in Farmington Successfully Organize to Prevent Concessions
Organizing can be more difficult when members can’t meet face-to-face with each other, or with town officials, but that’s not stopping teachers around the state. Farmington Education Association (FEA)...
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Stamford Teachers Speak Out Against Draconian Cuts During Coronavirus Pandemic
Increased class sizes, the reduction or elimination of positions, including reading teachers, media specialists, technology teachers, social workers, school counselors, EL specialists, and art,...
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What Will School Look Like in the Fall?
Connecticut’s elected officials, health experts, education stakeholders, and others agree that when school resumes this fall, it is unlikely to look like school pre-COVID. Safeguards will need to be in...
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Car Caravan Rally and Budget Meetings: Stamford Community Supports Teachers,...
Hundreds of Stamford students, teachers, parents, and other community members showed their opposition to plans to cut the school budget by more than $15 million during a car caravan rally yesterday...
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Teaching SEL Remotely: CEA Teachers Share Strategies
Student anxiety and mental health issues were a serious concern before COVID-19 and are even more so now that schools are not physically in session. Distance learning is no substitute for in-person...
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Share Your Views: The Road to School Equity After COVID-19
The move to distance learning has exposed huge inequities among our school districts and often between students in the same district. Some students don’t have laptops or Internet service. Others face...
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Stamford Officials Disregard Students, Parents, and Teachers: Vote to Cut...
Despite hundreds of emails, letters, heartfelt comments during virtual meetings, car caravans, and other activities protesting proposed school budget cuts, the Stamford Board of Finance last night...
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Health, Safety, Well-Being, and Inequities Among Teachers’ Top Concerns for...
The top concerns of teachers regarding any return to school are the health and well-being of their students, ensuring they have access to computers and online resources, and keeping them safe when...
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CEA Members Discuss Ways to Enhance Equity for Students
Issues of equity are top of mind right now for educators watching the news and listening to their students’ worries and concern, and an online forum hosted by CEA’s Ethnic Minority Affairs Commission...
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This Monday: Ask Commissioner Cardona
What will schools look like when they reopen? Will teachers and students be required to wear face masks? How will social distancing happen throughout the school day? Will distance learning continue?...
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School Reopening Plan to Be Shaped by Health, Education Priorities
How Connecticut returns to school in the fall is on the minds of educators and parents around the state, and the governor and State Department of Education expect to announce official reopening...
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New CEA Ad Campaign Emphasizes Need to Support Education for Coronavirus...
When coronavirus struck Connecticut, teachers and students had their worlds turned upside down almost overnight. Schools were closed, and homes became de facto classrooms. Through all of the...
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New Milford Teachers Standing Up for Their Students and Their Colleagues
Teachers are working harder for longer hours during this time of distance learning, but that hasn’t stopped New Milford from asking teachers for concessions. CEA New Milford Vice President Angela...
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Black Lives Matter Rally This Saturday in East Hartford
The death of George Floyd and those of other African Americans as well as the inequities some of their students face weigh heavily on the minds of many educators. To show their support for their...
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NEA Tele-Town Hall: Ensuring Equity and Racial Justice in Reopening School...
Join your NEA colleagues from around the country this Thursday, June 18 for an engaging conversation to ensure that, as we reopen public school buildings, opportunities for students exist in equitable...
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East Hartford Teachers and Community Rally in Support of Black Lives Matter
It’s an important moment, teachers say, to come together and reject the bias and systemic racism that have been present in our society and our schools for far too long. In East Hartford, educators,...
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NEA Tele-Town Hall Looks at Ensuring Equity and Racial Justice in School...
Thousands of educators around the country last week joined a tele-town hall on education equity and safe school reopening. Organized by the National Education Association and moderated by award-winning...
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Teachers Respond to School Reopening Plan
Teachers are concerned about a plan to return to school in the fall that doesn’t include testing or screening of staff and students, limits on class sizes, or provisions to ensure social distancing....
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Vital to Address Teachers’ Concerns About Reopening Plan
Teachers have numerous concerns about Connecticut’s plan for school reopening, and CEA leaders are talking with members daily and working on ways to make sure these issues are addressed. There are many...
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