The Connecticut Education Association—the state’s largest teachers’ union, representing nearly 45,000 educators—has a new top administrative leader. The CEA Board of Directors has appointed accomplished education, union, and labor leader Todd Jaeck as the organization’s new executive director.
Hundreds of Connecticut children and parents celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday today by donating new and gently used books to children in need. The fun-filled family event was organized by the Connecticut Education Foundation (CEF) and community partners iHeartMedia and Blue Back Square.
Connecticut Education Foundation tackling reading with professional football stars and college and high school football players The Connecticut Education Foundation and the Bloomfield Education Association are tackling reading with a…
We are pleased that one of Governor Ned Lamont’s first budget recommendations for fiscal year 2025 is the elimination of the initial teacher licensure application fee, which costs our state’s aspiring educators roughly $1 million each year.
We collectively wish to express our serious concern and dismay that state leaders have excluded all Connecticut classroom teachers, school leaders, and members of boards of education from the panel at the upcoming Education Forum on Literacy. The forum is described as “bringing together state and national leaders, as well as reading experts, as they engage in critical conversations about literacy.”
Union leaders embrace Dalio Education’s proposed holistic approach to resolve statewide learning crisis Teachers, paraeducators, and school-related personnel across the state have joined efforts to draw greater attention to the…
Increased salaries, staffing, respect, limits on non-teaching duties needed to address continuing crisis in our schools.
After nine years at the Connecticut Education Association, and a long and distinguished political career in the Connecticut legislature where he served as Senate President, CEA Executive Director Donald Williams is officially retiring.
Legislators, a superintendent, teachers, and a national education leader were honored with prestigious education champion awards at CEA’s inaugural fundraising gala for the Connecticut Education Foundation.
The Connecticut Education Association unveiled a fresh, new look this week, invigorating the visual identity of an organization that has been a champion of students, teachers, and public schools for 175 years.