More than 125 retired educators gathered at the Aqua Turf on May 17 for the CEA-Retired Annual Spring Business Meeting to hear about legislative and Congressional updates regarding teacher retirement as well as other issues relevant to retired and active educators.
With teacher burnout increasing in the face of low salaries, problematic behavior from students, sick schools, and more, Hamden educators told legislators during a recent meeting that the state needs to invest more to support educators and schools and prevent a full-blown teacher shortage crisis.
With less than three weeks left of the legislative session, teachers from every part of the state have been coming to the Capitol after school to get key priorities past the finish line.
At the Aspiring Educators’ end-of-year Apple Banquet this spring, students celebrated each other’s accomplishments, reflected on their experience in the program, and heard from speakers about how CEA will continue to be there for them throughout their time as both students and professional educators.
Despite the state’s teacher shortage, school budget battles mean that some educators have nevertheless received reduction in force (RIF) notices letting them know that their positions have not been renewed for the next school year.
With at least 1,300 educator vacancies statewide, Governor Lamont announced Connecticut is using federal funding to make new investments to address educator shortages in Connecticut.
“Today I feel empowered, and we need to help other teachers feel empowered too,” Danbury teacher Luanelly Iglesias told fellow educators at CEA’s Summit on Diversity, a half-day event co-sponsored by CEA and NEA and hosted by CEA’s Ethnically Diverse Educators Commission.
Nearly 400 teachers from around the state will gather this evening for the opening of the 175th Representative Assembly (RA)—CEA’s highest policy-making body. What began with 80 teachers in 1848…
This Teacher Appreciation Week, CEA staff are sharing their own Because of a Teacher stories and offering up memories of the teachers who helped them get where they are today. Watch the videos.
Despite two hours of impassioned pleas from community members unanimously in support of reversing cuts to the education budget the East Hampton Town Council voted to moved forward with those cuts.