Involvement encouraged in Race to the Top As the state scrambles to meet a January deadline to get local school districts to sign on to the State Department of Education’s (SDE) proposed education reform plan for funding under the federal Race to the Top (RTTT) grant, CEA held a special meeting for local Association leaders…
DetailsGovernor Rell announced yesterday that there is now enough vaccine to make it available to any Connecticut resident interested in getting vaccinated. The state is currently seeing fewer cases of H1N1, but it’s possible there will be another wave of the pandemic this winter and the virus is expected to be around for several more…
DetailsWhile budget woes increase at the state and local level Congress has acted on two fronts in recent days which have implications for state and local education budgets. In the midst of the health care debate, Congress recently finalized the Fiscal Year 2010 spending bill. The House-Senate Conference Committee reached agreement to spend nearly $64…
DetailsThe Connecticut House and Senate convened yesterday for a special session and quickly adjourned with no agreement in sight about how to reduce the growing state budget deficit. The December 15 special session was supposed to deal with Governor Rell’s deficit mitigation plan that proposes cutting $337 million from the $37.6 billion budget. As of…
DetailsWilton teacher Maria Corti is officially a star, as far as her fifth graders are concerned, now that her 76-foot-tall Norway spruce has been chosen as Rockefeller Center’s Christmas tree. “I’m a celebrity. They see me in a new light suddenly. They’re very excited and proud – as they should be,” says Corti, who has…
DetailsTeacher cash bonuses for AP scores not effective CEA Executive Director John Yrchik has an editorial in today’s Hartford Courant. Read the complete piece here.
DetailsFeeling discouraged? Facing a classroom with more students than ever before? Frantic about how to make more programs like SRBI work with even fewer resources? Now there’s another wallop in store for local communities already struggling to support school budgets stretched to their limits. The State of Connecticut has a hole in its current budget…
DetailsKristi Luetjen, a kindergarten teacher at Whiting Lane Elementary in West Hartford, is Connecticut’s 2010 Teacher of the Year. She is featured in the December-January CEA Advisor, which will soon be arriving at your home. The video below was filmed October 14, immediately after Luetjen was named Connecticut Teacher of the Year. She speaks about…
DetailsTony Mullen, 2009 Connecticut and National Teacher of the Year, is speaking tomorrow at a Capitol Region Education Council (CREC) conference. The conference is titled Career Pathways – Connecticut Connections, and is taking place in Waterbury. Mullen will talk about the passion, professionalism, and perseverance it takes to reach vulnerable at-risk students, and the link…
DetailsOn November 18th the Final guidelines and invitation for applications to the so-called Race to the Top competition were published in the Federal Register. The 102 page application for Phase I funding is due by January 19, 2010 less than eight weeks from now. The monetary stakes are high. According to the published non-binding estimates…
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