Save on Travel and Summer Fun with Your CEA and NEA Membership
As you prepare for summer and opportunities to celebrate dads and grads, don’t forget to check out the savings available to you through NEA Member Benefits.
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Stratford Educator Inducted into National Teachers Hall of Fame
The surprise of a lifetime propelled Kristen Record, a Stratford physics teacher and Connecticut’s 2011 Teacher of the Year, into yet another exclusive group of exceptional educators. Record, surrounded by colleagues, family, and friends, in the Bunnell High School media center in Stratford today, was honored for her 23 years of dedication to her students…
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Empowered to Lead Symposium
Celebrate the Power of Partnerships at this year’s Empowered to Lead Symposium, hosted by the Connecticut Teacher of the Year Council
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Teacher Shortage Worsening, Causing School Closings, Early Dismissals, and Lost Learning Time for Students
Teachers are sounding the alarm for the state to provide funding and accountability measures to fix the staff shortage crisis facing our public schools.
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Teacher Shortage Worsening, Causing School Closings, Early Dismissals, and Lost Learning Time for Students
Educators urging guaranteed funding for recruitment and retention efforts With schools forced to close early due to staffing shortages and nearly 2,000 vacancies for certified educators across Connecticut, teachers are sounding the alarm for the state to provide funding and accountability measures to fix the staff shortage crisis facing our public schools. “Proposed new ECS…
DetailsCancel Your Student Loan Debt: Waivers, credits, and forgiveness for educators
CEA Member Benefits invites you to a free webinar on what is likely the last opportunity you’ll have to receive retroactive credit for federal student loan payments that may have been made on eligible loans or through ineligible plans. Similar to last year’s waiver opportunity, this one-time payment adjustment may allow some CEA members to…
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Play-Based Learning, Kindergarten Start Age, and More Pass the House
An important bill for teachers that incorporates play-based learning, raises the kindergarten start age, eliminates performance ratings in teacher evaluations, and more passed the State House of Representatives and now heads to the Senate.
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CEA-Retired Helps Move Profession into the Future
More than 125 retired educators gathered at the Aqua Turf on May 17 for the CEA-Retired Annual Spring Business Meeting to hear about legislative and Congressional updates regarding teacher retirement as well as other issues relevant to retired and active educators.
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Legislators Say Teachers Have Their Support; Next Move in Governor’s Court
With teacher burnout increasing in the face of low salaries, problematic behavior from students, sick schools, and more, Hamden educators told legislators during a recent meeting that the state needs to invest more to support educators and schools and prevent a full-blown teacher shortage crisis.
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Teachers Take Their Case to the Capitol
With less than three weeks left of the legislative session, teachers from every part of the state have been coming to the Capitol after school to get key priorities past the finish line.
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