News Release: Statement from CEA President Sheila Cohen on Arming Teachers to Prevent School Violence
Teachers must focus on educating students.
Teachers must focus on educating students.
Governor Malloy’s budget proposal is anything but fair for Connecticut’s students and public schools, and legislators must reverse draconian cuts and stop underfunding public education, jeopardizing students’ futures.
The Connecticut Education Association does not endorse the idea that teachers should bring guns into the classroom.
Teachers call for real reform, fairness in education funding for all students.
Connecticut Education Foundation brings the joy of reading to students.
The Connecticut Education Association is urging the State Board of Education (SBOE) to put students ahead of politics and reject charter school expansion efforts that are draining critical funds away from neighborhood public schools and causing irreparable harm to the state’s poorest school districts.
Critical funds being drained from neighborhood public schools; hurting students in state’s poorest districts.
There’s no silver bullet when it comes to balancing the state budget and growing the economy, but we know that attacking working people is not the direction Connecticut should be taking.
Labor advocates urge fiscal stability commission to take high road to achieve economic growth in Connecticut.
Attend a free screening of Backpack Full of Cash. Narrated by Matt Damon, whose mother is teacher, the movie explores the real cost of privatizing public schools.
Click here for details on the Tuesday, Feb. 13, 6 p.m. screening in New London.