Education & COVID-19: State Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona
Watch the live webinar that answered questions from the State Department of Education about distance learning, school reopening plans, and other issues related to COVID-19.
Stamford Officials Disregard Students, Parents, and Teachers: Vote to Cut Education Budget
Despite hundreds of emails, letters, heartfelt comments during virtual meetings, car caravans, and other activities protesting proposed school budget cuts, the Stamford Board of Finance last night voted unanimously to…
Share Your Views: The Road to School Equity After COVID-19
The move to distance learning has exposed huge inequities among our school districts and often between students in the same district. Some students don’t have laptops or Internet service. Others…
Teaching SEL Remotely: CEA Teachers Share Strategies
Student anxiety and mental health issues were a serious concern before COVID-19 and are even more so now that schools are not physically in session. Distance learning is no substitute…
Car Caravan Rally and Budget Meetings: Stamford Community Supports Teachers, Opposes Cuts to Education
Hundreds of Stamford students, teachers, parents, and other community members showed their opposition to plans to cut the school budget by more than $15 million during a car caravan rally…
Statement from CEA President Jeff Leake on Governor Lamont’s decision to keep schools closed until May 20
We appreciate Governor Lamont’s response to the state’s ongoing public health emergency. The first priority must always be to protect the health and safety of our students, teachers, and communities.…
Stamford Teachers Speak Out Against Draconian Cuts During Coronavirus Pandemic
Increased class sizes, the reduction or elimination of positions, including reading teachers, media specialists, technology teachers, social workers, school counselors, EL specialists, and art, physical education, and music teachers as…
Teachers in Farmington Successfully Organize to Prevent Concessions
Organizing can be more difficult when members can’t meet face-to-face with each other, or with town officials, but that’s not stopping teachers around the state. Farmington Education Association (FEA) members…
School Is Where the Heart Is
The coronavirus may have closed school buildings, but it has also revealed the determination and resolve of educators to help their students. This pandemic has also exposed a great divide.…
Virtual CEA RA Continues Work of Association
As well as being CEA’s highest policy-making body, the CEA Representative Assembly (RA) is also usually a chance for teachers from across the state to meet up and converse with their fellow CEA members.