In a letter sent to Bridgeport Education Association President Gary Peluchette on May 30, State Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor invited the union and Bridgeport Superintendent Paul Vallas to meet to…
Top Connecticut lawmakers continue to hammer out details of the state budget that will be put before the full House and Senate sometime in the upcoming weeks. One of the…
“It’s extremely helpful to hear from the pilot districts as we all plan for implementing the new evaluation guidelines next year,” said Shelton High School Principal Beth Smith. The sentiment…
More than 400 teachers with one to six years of classroom experience attended the CEA New Teacher Conference at the Mohegan Sun Conference Center on April 6 to get training…
Policy affecting public education should be made with teachers, not without them. That’s the outspoken viewpoint of teachers from across Connecticut who are featured in a new CEA TV public…
The State Department of Education is giving districts flexibility in implementing the state’s educator evaluation and support system for the 2013-14 school year. Read the complete text of Commissioner of…
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…
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…
The state process involving school districts developing new teacher evaluation plans is more fluid than it originally appeared, based on extensive discussion on Monday, February 4, among State Department of…
The Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) that met last year to develop state guidelines for educator evaluation will meet again Monday for the first time since PEAC members approved the…