June 27, 2024
CEA’s Communications Department took home seven awards recognizing exceptional communications across various categories at a national awards ceremony.
May 20, 2024
Exemplary Danbury teacher Lori Woodruff was presented with the Connecticut Education Association’s highest teaching award, the John McCormack Award for Teaching Excellence. The Academy for International Studies (AIS) Magnet School fourth grade teacher was honored at the 176th annual CEA Representative Assembly, held at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center this past weekend.
May 9, 2024
Since COVID, teachers have continually gone above and beyond for their students and while the pandemic is mostly behind us, teachers are still dealing with the negative impact on our students. Our educators are facing student behavioral, social, and mental health issues and a teacher shortage with no end in sight.
April 16, 2024
Educators are calling for a repeal of WEP/GPO provisions that eliminate earned retirement benefits from millions of Americans.
April 8, 2024
Education community and families react to Congress preventing dire cuts to education budget.
March 5, 2024
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.
March 4, 2024
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.
January 31, 2024
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.
January 25, 2024
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.”
December 13, 2023
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…
October 18, 2023
Increased salaries, staffing, respect, limits on non-teaching duties needed to address continuing crisis in our schools.
October 13, 2023
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.
October 3, 2023
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.
August 2, 2023
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.
July 27, 2023
More than 400 educators from across the state gathered at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center this past weekend to celebrate the Connecticut Education Association’s 175th year of advocating for students, teachers, and public education.