School Funding Forum at CCSU
How are Connecticut schools funded? Where does the money come from? What would adequate and equitable school funding look like? What is CCJEF vs. Rell? These questions and more will…
Process Should Not Be the Product: Evaluation System Cries Out for Improvement
CEA championed people over process at today’s meeting of the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC). CEA President Sheila Cohen and Executive Director Mark Waxenberg pressed education leaders to act quickly…
State Budget Proposal’s Impact on Pensions and Education Funding
Education funding and pensions are two issues of particular importance to teachers in the budget plan Governor Malloy released today at the opening of the 2016 legislative session. The governor’s…
New Legislative Session Brings Opportunity for Improving Teaching and Learning
State lawmakers will be back in Hartford tomorrow for the start of the 2016 legislative session—and that brings opportunity for teachers to advocate for improvements to education policies that affect…
Former Commissioner of Education Speaks Out in Favor of New Teacher Evaluation System
The op-ed below by Betty J. Sternberg, former Connecticut commissioner of education, was published today in the Hartford Courant. CT’s Chance To Get Teacher Evaluations Right It’s time for evaluations…
CEA Proposes New Evaluation Guidelines to Promote Student Learning
“The goal of teacher evaluation is to strengthen educator support and practice and to improve student learning,” CEA President Sheila Cohen told reporters at a news conference at the Legislative…
Need for New Student Data Privacy Laws Subject of CEA Forum
“Connecticut is at a critical juncture when it comes to student data privacy,” Khaliah Barnes of the Electronic Privacy Information Center told legislators, parents, teachers, and concerned citizens gathered today…
CEA County Forums Coming to a Town Near You
Calling public education “the last frontier and bastion of the American dream,” CEA President Sheila Cohen last night spoke with members gathered together in Bolton at the first of a…
A Recipe for Effective School Improvement
While we would all love a silver bullet that could radically transform a city’s public schools for the better, gradual, systemic approaches that get widespread buy-in are what really positively…
Novel Approach for Closing Achievement Gap Focus of New Study
While ethnic studies courses have received negative attention in recent years in places such as Arizona, where a Mexican American studies course was banned in 2010, a new study on…