New NEA Member Benefits Site
This spring NEA Member Benefits launched a new version of their website www.neamb.com. If you haven’t checked it out yet, take a few minutes to visit and explore some of…
Close 5000 Schools in Five Years …
This week President Obama proposed closing and reopening 1000 failing schools per year for the next five years. Where did this come from! Officially the notion was floated by Secretary…
NEA President Visits Bridgeport CommPACT Schools
NEA President Dennis Van Roekel heard encouraging reports from teachers, parents and principals during a visit yesterday to two Bridgeport CommPACT schools. The new school reform experiment in Connecticut’s neediest…
CEA Student Program Brings the Carnival to Charter Oak Academy!
Guest post by Linette Branham, CEA Educational Issues Specialist It wasn’t an everyday, ordinary carnival that came to Charter Oak Academy in West Hartford on Saturday, May 2. This one…
State Department of Education Presents to CEA on ARRA
State education officials are seeking guidance and getting answers from the U.S. Department of Education about how to use new federal stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act…
Offices Filled at 2009 CEA Representative Assembly
Nearly 500 delegates attended the 161st CEA Representative Assembly (RA) Friday, May 1, and Saturday, May 2, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cromwell. Phil Apruzzese was re-elected to a…