GOVERNOR’S BUDGET
The governor’s new budget focuses on teacher pensions, education funding, and a damaging cost shift proposal. Read more.
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CRISIS IN THE CLASSROOM
Take the time to let legislators know what’s happening in your classroom and why they must act to protect students and teachers from aggressive and disruptive student behavior.
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TEACHERS SHARE CLASSROOM HORROR STORIES WITH LEGISLATORS
From being attacked with a knife to being stabbed with a pencil, threatened with scissors and punched in the face—teachers shared their shocking stories of violent student behavior with legislators. Watch their emotional stories and read testimony submitted by hundreds of teachers.
Spreading the Word About Reading
Why is reading so fundamental to children’s success in school? How does the Connecticut Education Foundation’s (CEF) second annual Reading Bus Tour promote literacy in Northeastern Connecticut? CEF President and CEA Vice President Tom Nicholas discussed these questions and more this morning on Channel 8’s Good Morning Connecticut show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6v2v-gjqGU?rel=0
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All Aboard: Reading Bus Celebrates Literacy at Connecticut Schools
“Wowwwww.” “I can’t believe it.” “This is A-MAZING!” Those were just a few of the early reactions from fourth-graders climbing aboard the colorful, 38-foot bus outside Moriarty Magnet School in Norwich this morning. Today kicks off the Connecticut Education Foundation’s (CEF) second annual Read Across America Reading Bus Tour, featuring a customized blue bus decorated…
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All Aboard: Reading Bus Tour Rolls into Schools to Celebrate Literacy
Connecticut Education Foundation’s (CEF) second annual Read Across America Reading Bus Tour kicked off on February 25, featuring a customized blue bus decorated with well-known Dr. Seuss characters and outfitted with bookshelves, benches, carpeting, and hundreds of new books.
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Beginning the week of February 25, the year’s biggest literacy event rolls into six eastern Connecticut towns to bring the joy of reading to hundreds of students.
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Free Resources for Teaching About St. Patrick’s Day
Resources include videos, arts & crafts, printables, worksheets, interactive maps, and tutorials. They will help your students learn about and explore Irish culture, history, and traditions, including Irish folktales, literature, recipes, Celtic art and mythology, the Great Potato Famine, and more. For Grades K-5 1. Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato (8:08) An Irish folktale. A leprechaun…
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Statement from CEA President Jeff Leake on Governor Lamont’s Budget Address
CEA supports sensible ways of assisting the state in its efforts to make up for decades of underfunding teachers’ retirement, including the governor and treasurer’s plan to smooth out the state’s payments to the fund over a longer period of time and lower the investment earning assumption to a more realistic rate.
DetailsNews Release: Statement from CEA President Jeff Leake on Governor Lamont’s Budget Address
CEA supports sensible ways of assisting the state in its efforts to make up for decades of underfunding teachers’ retirement, including the governor and treasurer’s plan to smooth out the state’s payments to the fund over a longer period of time and lower the investment earning assumption to a more realistic rate.
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