As State Budget Crisis Looms, Voters Want Protections for Neighborhood School Funding
Saying 3 out of 4 public schools are doing an excellent or good job, Connecticut voters (8 out of 10) want to ensure that their neighborhood public schools do not…
Rainbow of Readers Celebrate Read Across America Day at Andover Elementary School
Despite a snowy start to the morning, a rainbow appeared at Andover Elementary School today. The entire student body, from kindergarteners dressed in red to fifth graders in purple and…
CEA Executive Director: Charter School Transparency, Oversight & Fiscal Impact Need to Be Addressed
Charter schools in CT, intended as laboratories of innovation, have become a parallel school system allowed to play by a different set of rules than those that govern traditional neighborhood…
Contact Your Members of Congress and Make Sure They Get Federal Education Policy Right
Congress is reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind/Elementary and Secondary Education Act — America’s cornerstone education legislation. Members of Congress need to hear the voices of educators to make sure…
CEA Supporting Legislation to Remove Stigma of Unsubstantiated Allegations
CEA is speaking out on behalf of innocent educators who, although cleared of wrongdoing, continue to bear the stigma of being labeled “alleged perpetrators” by the Department of Children and…
New CEA TV Ads Focus on Need to Reduce Standardized Testing
Two new CEA public awareness TV ads featuring CEA members and Connecticut students will be playing on Connecticut TV stations starting tomorrow. The spots focus on the need to treat…
Join Your Colleagues and Take Action to Reduce Excessive Testing
Your colleagues are already signing a new CEA petition to reduce overtesting in our schools. The petition is one piece of a new campaign CEA announced at a news conference…
Teachers and Voters Sound the Alarm on Excessive Testing
Voters—fed up with Connecticut burdening students with too much testing—want their state legislators to take action. At a news conference at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford today, CEA revealed…
Courant Featuring Unsung Heroes: Nominate Someone You Know
The Hartford Courant is featuring unsung Connecticut heroes and the paper wants your nominations. According to The Courant, hometown heroes are “the people who rarely grab the spotlight, but who…
Yes, Union Decline Affects Everyone
In today’s issue of The New York Times, columnist Nicholas Kristof admits something too few are willing to say — “I was wrong,” he writes. Wrong, it turns out, about…