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CEA Proposes New Evaluation Guidelines to Promote Student Learning
"After extensively polling and surveying our members, we have concluded that our state's current teacher evaluation guidelines are actually detrimental to student learning," CEA President Sheila Cohen...
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Improve Your Skills: Attend CEA’s New Teacher Conference
If you are an educator with six years or less in the classroom and are looking to improve your skills, plan to attend CEA’s New Teacher Conference at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center on March 19,...
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Process Should Not Be the Product: Evaluation System Cries Out for Improvement
CEA championed people over process at today’s meeting of the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council. CEA President Sheila Cohen and Executive Director Mark Waxenberg...
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New Report Highlights Student Testing Concerns
A new report on student testing is a step forward, according to Connecticut teachers, but much more investigation and research must be done before policymakers can assure students and parents that...
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Legislative Budget-Writing Committee to Hear CEA Members’ Concerns
CEA members’ concerns about education and retiree health care funding will be front and center tonight at a public hearing of the legislature’s Appropriations Committee as CEA staff members outline...
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Attend a CEA Workshop to Learn About and Plan for Retirement
When will you be eligible for retirement? How should you decide which retirement plan to choose? How can you purchase additional service? How will your Social Security benefits be affected?...
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Get Critical Information at CEA Meetings this March
Join your colleagues at a CEA Regional Meeting in March to find out how the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) could change your work in the classroom. ESSA gives Connecticut the opportunity to...
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Who’s in Charge?
CEA Executive Director Mark Waxenberg today urged legislators not to surrender their authority to a state agency—the state Department of Education. Testifying before the legislature’s Education...
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Oh, the Places You’ll Go… With a Book
Sitting elbow to elbow, knee to knee, with books in hand, nearly 300 students filled the hallways at Franklin Elementary School in Stratford today to celebrate Read Across America Day, with their very...
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CEA Backing Legislation to Help Teachers Bearing Burden of Unsubstantiated...
It can be shockingly easy for an upstanding educator to face unfounded accusations that require an investigation by the Department of Children and Families (DCF). As the law now stands, even when...
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Legislators Urged to Strengthen Student Data Privacy Protections
“Connecticut is among a small minority of states that have yet to enact legislation pertaining to the protection and use of student data, leaving our children and families inadequately protected,” Jenn...
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CEA Urges Legislators to End Link Between Teacher Evaluation and SBAC Scores
"Nowhere in research does it say that the results of a single standardized test score measure the effectiveness of a teacher," CEA President Sheila Cohen told legislators.
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CEA Standing Up for Student, Parent, and Teacher Rights
“This bill is essentially a hostile takeover of Network Schools—it’s incredibly anti-democratic,” CEA Director of Policy, Research, and Reform Donald Williams told legislators yesterday, saying that...
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CEA Wants Decisive Action on SBAC and Teacher Evaluation
Teachers are making it clear that the student assessments that count in their evaluations are not a subject that should be “kicked down the road” indefinitely by Connecticut policymakers.
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Growth Over Time on SBAC—A False Promise for Students Not at Grade Level
"Teachers are all for accountability that's going to be valid," Bridgeport math teacher Mia Dimbo told reporters and legislators. "We want to be accountable with something that really measures our...
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PEAC Considers Allowing Increased Flexibility for Local Districts
As teachers around the state are writing, emailing, and calling their legislators, asking them to pass a bill to permanently decouple SBAC from their evaluations, the committee that advises the State...
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New CEA TV Ad Steps Up Campaign Against Unreliable Testing
Teachers are turning up the volume on the problem of unreliable testing that has overtaken Connecticut public school classrooms. Watch a new CEA TV ad.
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On Trial: Every Child’s Right to an Equitable Education
What’s more important when it comes to helping students in high-poverty districts succeed—increased funding or better leaders? The Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding (CCJEF) spent...
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Retirees Converge on the State Capitol: Ask Legislators for their Support
“It’s important to talk to us and express your views.” That was the message Sen. Paul Formica gave to nearly 100 retired teachers who converged on the State Capitol today for Retired Teachers’ Lobby...
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State Board of Education Members Want SBAC in Your Evaluation: Contact Your...
If you haven’t yet felt the need to let your legislators know why SBAC shouldn’t be part of your evaluation, comments today made by state Board of Education members should drive you to action. After an...
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