News Release: Statement from CEA President Sheila Cohen on Arming Teachers to Prevent School Violence
Teachers must focus on educating students.
News Release: Stop Putting Children’s Futures at Risk
Governor Malloy’s budget proposal is anything but fair for Connecticut’s students and public schools, and legislators must reverse draconian cuts and stop underfunding public education, jeopardizing students’ futures.
News Release: State Board of Education Urged to Reject Costly Charter School Expansion
The Connecticut Education Association is urging the State Board of Education (SBOE) to put students ahead of politics and reject charter school expansion efforts that are draining critical funds away from neighborhood public schools and causing irreparable harm to the state’s poorest school districts.
News Release: CEA Joins Labor Leaders Calling for Bold Reforms to Move CT Forward
There’s no silver bullet when it comes to balancing the state budget and growing the economy, but we know that attacking working people is not the direction Connecticut should be taking.
News Release: Statement from CEA President Sheila Cohen
While Governor Malloy’s message in his address to the General Assembly emphasized Connecticut’s tradition of fairness and concern for future generations, his budget proposal is anything but fair for Connecticut’s students and public schools.
News Release: CEA Urges Hartford Healthcare and Anthem to End Negotiating Impasse
The Connecticut Education Association and its 43,000 members are calling on Hartford HealthCare and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield to end their negotiating impasse.
News Release: CEA, Teachers, Students, Parents, and Municipalities Withdraw Lawsuit
The lawsuit filed by the Connecticut Education Association against Governor Malloy influenced the passage of the new state budget, and helped restore ECS funding to all of our schools.
News Release: Statement from CEA President Sheila Cohen on Passage of Bipartisan State Budget
The fight for a fair budget that invests in public education has ended in the legislature with a bipartisan agreement that does not substantially cut ECS funding or shift the cost of teacher retirement onto cities and towns.
News Release: Statement from CEA President Sheila Cohen on Teacher Tax
Teachers stand together, unequivocally opposed to a teacher tax.
News Release: CEA, Teachers, Students, Parents, and Municipalities Take the State to Court to Prevent $557 Million in Education Funding Cuts
The Connecticut Education Association, the city of Torrington, the towns of Brooklyn and Plainfield, as well as teachers, students, and parents in those municipalities are taking the state to court over the loss of millions in education funding.