NEA Member Benefits offers great consumer discounts and special travel and leisure opportunities to all of NEA’s three million members. Below are some of the special discounts and highlighted programs…
If you’re working under an endorsement that is considered a shortage area you may be eligible for benefits such as loan forgiveness and mortgage assistance. Every fall the Connecticut State…
The deadline for districts to submit teacher evaluation plans for 2014-15, previously set for June 2, has been changed to a window allowing submissions between June 2 and June 13.…
“We get books to take home?” excited students at Mayberry School in East Hartford asked members of the CEA Student Program (CEA-SP) and CEA Retired as they carried boxes full…
At today’s meeting of the State’s Common Core Task Force members looked directly at the issues teachers themselves report having implementing the Common Core State Standards…
A North Carolina judge has ruled that the state’s repeal of due process protections for teachers was unconstitutional. A law passed last year would have phased out career status for…
Today marks the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education — the Supreme Court case that overturned legal segregation in our public schools. Much has changed over the last 60 years,…
“Time has been the most significant challenge,” Litchfield Superintendent Deborah Wheeler, told the State Common Core Implementation Task Force. “It’s been a lot of decision making in a short amount of…
Teachers and others who are marathon runners are buzzing about today’s announcement that Northeast Utilities (NU) is the new title sponsor of the Hartford Marathon. But we’re hoping you’ll help…
How do you help your kids — your own children and/or your students — learn to love reading? In a New York Times op-ed yesterday, columnist David Bruni bemoaned the results…