Hear State Education Commissioner on Race to the Top
Involvement encouraged in Race to the Top As the state scrambles to meet a January deadline to get local school districts to sign on to the State Department of Education’s…
H1N1 Vaccine Now Available for All
Governor Rell announced yesterday that there is now enough vaccine to make it available to any Connecticut resident interested in getting vaccinated. The state is currently seeing fewer cases of…
Congress Adopts Education Budget and House Approves Jobs Bill
While budget woes increase at the state and local level Congress has acted on two fronts in recent days which have implications for state and local education budgets. In the…
Special Session Provides No Answers
The Connecticut House and Senate convened yesterday for a special session and quickly adjourned with no agreement in sight about how to reduce the growing state budget deficit. The December…
CEA Member’s Tree Lights Up Rockefeller Center
Wilton teacher Maria Corti is officially a star, as far as her fifth graders are concerned, now that her 76-foot-tall Norway spruce has been chosen as Rockefeller Center’s Christmas tree.…
CEA Editorial in Today’s Hartford Courant
Teacher cash bonuses for AP scores not effective CEA Executive Director John Yrchik has an editorial in today’s Hartford Courant. Read the complete piece here.
Are resources at your school stretched to the limit?
Feeling discouraged? Facing a classroom with more students than ever before? Frantic about how to make more programs like SRBI work with even fewer resources? Now there’s another wallop in…
Connecticut’s 2010 Teacher of the Year Featured in the Advisor
Kristi Luetjen, a kindergarten teacher at Whiting Lane Elementary in West Hartford, is Connecticut’s 2010 Teacher of the Year. She is featured in the December-January CEA Advisor, which will soon…
Preventing Dropouts: National Teacher of the Year Speaks Out
Tony Mullen, 2009 Connecticut and National Teacher of the Year, is speaking tomorrow at a Capitol Region Education Council (CREC) conference. The conference is titled Career Pathways – Connecticut Connections,…
Let the Race Begin
On November 18th the Final guidelines and invitation for applications to the so-called Race to the Top competition were published in the Federal Register. The 102 page application for Phase…