NEA Member Benefits offers great consumer discounts and special travel and leisure opportunities to all of NEA’s three million members. Below are some of the special discounts and highlighted programs for June. NEA Click & Save, the online discount buying service for NEA members, highlights select retailers and merchants each month. Check out this month’s…
DetailsCEA is working in tandem with the Avon Education Association to fully support the Avon educators named in a federal complaint filed recently in the United States District Court. All teachers deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and it is troubling to witness innocent educators being falsely implicated. We emphasize that the federal…
DetailsIf you’re working under an endorsement that is considered a shortage area you may be eligible for benefits such as loan forgiveness and mortgage assistance. Every fall the Connecticut State Department of Education surveys public school districts to determine teacher shortage areas. The State Department of Education recently released the Certification Shortage Areas for 2014-15,…
DetailsThe deadline for districts to submit teacher evaluation plans for 2014-15, previously set for June 2, has been changed to a window allowing submissions between June 2 and June 13. Districts that submit plans during that time period should have feedback by July 3. Districts that anticipate not being able to meet the deadline window…
Details“We get books to take home?” excited students at Mayberry School in East Hartford asked members of the CEA Student Program (CEA-SP) and CEA Retired as they carried boxes full of books into the school last week. CEA-SP and CEA Retired organized a book drive that collected 400 books for Mayberry School. The school will…
DetailsAt today’s meeting of the State’s Common Core Task Force members looked directly at the issues teachers themselves report having implementing the Common Core State Standards…
Details“You’ve made a difference in the lives of so many children,” CEA President Sheila Cohen told more than 100 retirees at the CEA Retired Annual Spring Meeting at the Aqua Turf…
DetailsA North Carolina judge has ruled that the state’s repeal of due process protections for teachers was unconstitutional. A law passed last year would have phased out career status for teachers and replaced it with up to four-year long contracts. North Carolina Association of Educators President Rodney Ellis praised the ruling, saying, “The court said…
DetailsToday marks the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education — the Supreme Court case that overturned legal segregation in our public schools. Much has changed over the last 60 years, but our schools remain far from equal. Ending forced racial segregation was indeed a monumental step forward for our country. Unfortunately, the decades since that…
Details“Time has been the most significant challenge,” Litchfield Superintendent Deborah Wheeler, told the State Common Core Implementation Task Force. “It’s been a lot of decision making in a short amount of time, which has been very stressful.” Wheeler was one of the presenters, who also included assistant superintendents from Stamford, at the task force’s meeting yesterday…
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