Sandy Hook Memorial and Scholarship Fund

CEA is collecting donations to the Sandy Hook Memorial and Scholarship Fund through its charitable arm, the Connecticut Education Foundation (CEF). CEF is a non-profit, charitable foundation that was established in 1991 to help teachers and children with extraordinary challenges.

Gifts collected will go towards the Sandy Hook School Memorial Scholarship Fund at the University of Connecticut and the creation of a bronze sculpture memorializing the heroism and sacrifice that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School. For more about the fund, read the press release.

The Sandy Hook School Memorial Scholarship Fund at UConn will help support the college costs for any siblings of those killed in the assault, the dependents of the adults who also lost their lives, as well as students currently enrolled at the elementary school, who are accepted to attend the University.

CEA has commissioned sculptor Marilyn Parkinson Thrall to create the sculpture and plans are to unveil it on the first anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Support Resources

• Supporting Teachers and Students Impacted by Newtown Tragedy

  CEA is working with AFT Connecticut, which represents teachers in Newtown, and with students, teachers, administrators, and families as they recover from this unimaginable tragedy.

Editorials and Articles

Courage At Newtown

Sandy Hook women died protecting children.

Standing as one as time passes

"No man is an island." What was true nearly 400 years ago when English poet John Donne scratched pen across paper is true today.

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  Teachers as Professionals: Raising Public Awareness in TV Ad

  Focus is on teachers as meaningful partners in collaborative decision making.

  
  
  
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  Join us in Support of the Newtown Community

  Donate to the Sandy Hook Memorial and Scholarship Fund.

  
  
  

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  Thank You for Your Advocacy

  A collection of images and video from the two-day education reform rally at the State Capitol (April....

  
  

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  Guidelines Aim to Improve Teacher Preparation

  Apr 15 - News-Times

  The state Board of Education adopted recommendations Monday aimed at developing stronger teacher preparation programs, calling them an interim step.

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  New Members to be Named for State Education Board

  Apr 15 - CT Mirror

  The board charged with leading the governor's statewide education reforms has five vacant seats out of 11, which leaves them without its chairman and vice chairwoman.

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  Griswold Woman Nominee in Top Teacher Contest

  Apr 15 - Norwich Bulletin

  Lisa Coe said it was the least she could do to pay back the teacher who changed her daughter's world "to something so incredibly positive."Erin Palonen, the Griswold special education teacher who worked with Coe's daughter Katie for seven years, was announced Friday as one of 12 semifinalists in a national Top Teacher contest run by the "Live with Kelly and Michael" daytime talk show. Coe was the one who nominated her, in a letter posted on the show's website.