The Legislature’s Education Committee today heard from a panel of experts on the need for community schools in Connecticut to help improve student achievement, especially in our neediest communities. Senate…
The school experience of each and every child in our state matters, but the quality of 8,000 students’ experiences stands to be diminished if arbitrary budget cuts known as the…
A Manchester teacher says she sometimes feels like she’s in her own little world in her classroom, but she now has a solution: come to a CEA workshop. Second-grade teacher…
We will never be the same as we were before the tragedy in Newtown, Governor Dannel Malloy said this morning at a conference on reducing gun violence. “We have changed,”…
There’s a move afoot at the state legislature to elevate the teaching profession. Proposed House Bill 6358, An Act Unleashing Innovation in Connecticut Schools, at this point is only a…
President Obama addressed a range of issues in his State of the Union speech last night, from the economy and jobs to Medicare to tax reform to immigration to education,…
President Obama will give his State of the Union address at 9:00 tonight, and Education Week and The Huffington Post are reporting he is likely to announce an investment in…
At a ceremony in her honor at East Hampton Middle School this week, long-time State Rep. Gail Hamm heard from teachers how much they have appreciated her work on their…
Despite the state’s fiscal woes, Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced a proposal to increase Education Cost Sharing (ECS) funding to 117 of the state’s 169 cities and towns, while…
The legislative Task Force on Gun Violence Prevention and Children’s Safety is holding a hearing at Newtown High School tonight. You can watch Newtown residents speaking out live on the…