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Register Now: May 18 Rally
CEA is urging legislators to reject any budget proposal that shifts the state's responsibility for education funding and teacher retirement onto Connecticut's cities and towns.
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State Auditors Find Lack of Oversight for Charter Management Organizations
A State of Connecticut internal audit of the State Department of Education (SDOE) released today, found that there are no safeguards in place to ensure that charter school management organizations are...
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Education Advocate and Former Legislative Leader to Assume Administrative...
The CEA Board of Directors has appointed accomplished policymaker and education advocate Donald E. Williams Jr., as the organization’s new executive director. The position is currently held by Mark...
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CEA President Tells Teachers: “If We Engage, We Will Make a Difference”
The many challenges confronting public education on both the state and national level can at times feel overwhelming. CEA President Sheila Cohen told delegates to the CEA Representative Assembly (RA)...
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Register Now For CEA’s Summer Leadership Conference
Summer is right around the corner—don’t forget to make plans to attend CEA’s Summer Leadership Conference. This year’s conference, which will take place July 31 – August 2 at the Mohegan Sun Convention...
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Middle and High School Students Learn What it Takes to Be a Teacher
“You have come from all corners of the state—I’m happy to see so many middle and high schools represented,” Dr. Zulma R. Toro told students gathered this morning for the Connecticut Future Teachers...
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Retired Teachers Urged to Speak Out, Contact Legislators
“How our pensions are funded is extremely important,” CEA-Retired President Gloria Brown told her colleagues this morning. “Get on the phone, send a letter or an email to your legislators. We have to...
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Statement from CEA President Sheila Cohen on DeVos’s Attack on East Hartford...
Betsy DeVos’s attack on East Hartford Public Schools is alarming, demoralizing, and unwarranted—but not unexpected from a woman who is totally unqualified and unfit to serve as U.S. Secretary of...
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East Hartford Stands Strong for Public Education
"DeVos Wrong, East Hartford Strong!" That was the chant from more than 200 teachers, paraprofessionals, students, parents, and community members gathered on the front lawn of East Hartford High...
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Watch East Hartford Community Speak Out
“I can tell just by looking at this crowd that Betsy DeVos messed with the wrong district,” East Hartford Education Association President Annie Irvine told the more than 200 students, parents,...
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Parents Criticize Governor’s Education Proposals in New CEA TV Ad
Parents from across the state are outraged over plans by the governor and some legislators to balance the state budget on the backs of their children and teachers.
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Help Raise Money for Needy Children Through the CEF Golf Tournament
You can make a difference in a child’s life just by playing golf in the Connecticut Education Foundation’s 23rd annual Hand’s Across the Green Golf Tournament to benefit The Children’s Fund (CEF). It...
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Be Ready to Take Action
The school year is almost over, but the need for teacher activism is not. While the legislative session ended last week, lawmakers have yet to agree on a new state budget, necessitating a special...
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Join Team CEF in the 2017 Eversource Hartford Marathon
Teachers are in it for the long run and in it for the students. And nowhere is that clearer than in the annual Eversource Hartford Marathon, where teachers run, donate, and volunteer to help children...
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Growing Pains, Risks as Internet and Social Media Proliferate
From cyberbullying to sexual exploitation, students are particularly at risk from the rapid integration of digital technologies into everyday life. As more devices become Internet-enabled—24 billion by...
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Education Coalition Presses for Fair, Transparent Funding Formula
“This is investing—investing in our state’s future and the future of our students,” said CEA President Sheila Cohen, describing a plan that would create a commission charged with pursuing an open,...
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Statement from CEA President Sheila Cohen on the Proposed House Democratic...
We are shocked and disappointed to see that the proposed House Democratic budget punishes teachers for a problem created by the state—the broken promise to provide the state’s share of teacher...
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Connecticut Teachers Joining National Colleagues for 2017 NEA RA
Some of your Connecticut colleagues are in Boston this week as members of the world’s largest democratic deliberative body: the NEA Representative Assembly (RA). The more than 100 CEA members are some...
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NEA Leaders Applaud Connecticut, Stress Teachers’ Strength
“All across the country, you are demonstrating that we have the resolve to fight for what’s right for our students and educators, the resilience to take a hit and bounce back, the audacity to demand...
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Teachers Tell Legislators: Under Proposed Budget, We Will Be Worse Off Today...
In a packed room at the Raymond Public Library in East Hartford, more than 15 teachers from East Hartford and neighboring Manchester told their state legislators to pass a budget without creating...
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