News Release: All Aboard: Reading Bus Tour Rolls into Schools to Celebrate Literacy
Beginning the week of February 25, the year’s biggest literacy event rolls into six eastern Connecticut towns to bring the joy of reading to hundreds of students.
News Release: Statement from CEA President Jeff Leake on Governor Lamont’s Budget Address
CEA supports sensible ways of assisting the state in its efforts to make up for decades of underfunding teachers’ retirement, including the governor and treasurer’s plan to smooth out the state’s payments to the fund over a longer period of time and lower the investment earning assumption to a more realistic rate.
News Release: Teachers Play Key Role in Electing Pro-Education
For pro-education candidates, Connecticut’s midterm elections were a victory, and teachers helped provide the decisive votes.
News Release: CEA Condemns Political Hate Mail
The Connecticut Education Association today criticized Ed Charamut, the Republican candidate for State Senate in the 9th District, for an anti-Semitic postcard attacking his opponent.
News Release: Connecticut Senator’s Proposal to Arm Teachers Sparks Outrage
In a statement that has angered Connecticut’s public school educators, Senate Deputy Minority Leader Michael McLachlan has said he would arm teachers.
News Release: Stefanowski’s Economic Plan Would Cut Education Funding, Hurt Students
The Connecticut Education Association is calling on Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski to use the occasion of his rally tomorrow at Pomperaug Regional High School in Southbury to renounce his proposals that would result in massive cuts to education.
News Release: CEA Condemns Legislative Candidate’s Hate Speech
Connecticut Education Association President Jeff Leake today criticized Steve Baleshiski, candidate for State Representative in the 30th District, for comments that came to light this week attacking high school student David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland High School shooting.
News Release: Report Cards for Legislative Candidates Help Guide Educators’ Decisions in the Voting Booth
The Connecticut Education Association today released its first-ever Legislator Report Card that evaluates legislative candidates’ overall support for issues important to students, teachers, and public education.
News Release: Teachers Endorse Jahana Hayes for Congress
The National Education Association (NEA) Fund for Children and Public Education and the Connecticut Education Association (CEA) today announced the endorsement of Jahana Hayes for Congress in the state’s fifth Congressional District.
News Release: Former Manchester Charter School Principal Forced to Surrender Certification Over Sexual Harassment Complaints
Nearly three years after complaints were brought forth about an alleged culture of abuse of power, sexual harassment, and other unprofessional conduct of former Odyssey Community Charter School principal Christopher Bugbee, the State Department of Education (SDE) began revocation proceedings against him.