Calling All Art Teachers!
Your students create amazing works of art–why not let a wider audience enjoy them? CEA headquarters in Hartford proudly displays student artwork on a monthly rotating basis, and we invite…
Teachers Hit the Links to Help Students
More than 200 Connecticut teachers, supporters, and CEA staff hit the links at Glastonbury Hills Country Club on July 17 as part of CEA’s largest fundraiser of the year to…
Teachers Tell Legislators: Under Proposed Budget, We Will Be Worse Off Today Than 10 Years Ago
In a packed room at the Raymond Public Library in East Hartford, more than 15 teachers from East Hartford and neighboring Manchester told their state legislators to pass a budget…
NEA Leaders Applaud Connecticut, Stress Teachers’ Strength
“All across the country, you are demonstrating that we have the resolve to fight for what’s right for our students and educators, the resilience to take a hit and bounce…
Connecticut Teachers Joining National Colleagues for 2017 NEA RA
Some of your Connecticut colleagues are in Boston this week as members of the world’s largest democratic deliberative body: the NEA Representative Assembly (RA). The more than 100 CEA members…
Statement from CEA President Sheila Cohen on the Proposed House Democratic Budget Plan
We are shocked and disappointed to see that the proposed House Democratic budget punishes teachers for a problem created by the state—the broken promise to provide the state’s share of…
Education Coalition Presses for Fair, Transparent Funding Formula
“This is investing—investing in our state’s future and the future of our students,” said CEA President Sheila Cohen, describing a plan that would create a commission charged with pursuing an…
Growing Pains, Risks as Internet and Social Media Proliferate
From cyberbullying to sexual exploitation, students are particularly at risk from the rapid integration of digital technologies into everyday life. As more devices become Internet-enabled—24 billion by 2020, according to…
Join Team CEF in the 2017 Eversource Hartford Marathon
Teachers are in it for the long run and in it for the students. And nowhere is that clearer than in the annual Eversource Hartford Marathon, where teachers run, donate,…
Be Ready to Take Action
The school year is almost over, but the need for teacher activism is not. While the legislative session ended last week, lawmakers have yet to agree on a new state…