Aspiring Educators Urge Lawmakers to Pay Student Teachers
Although student teaching is a full-time professional commitment, student teachers receive no pay, forcing many to take on debt and work additional jobs necessitating long hours.
Lawmakers Are Listening—Now’s the Time for Educators to Be Heard
Speak out now on fairness for teachers, workers’ compensation protections, and paid student teaching.
“I Lived in My Car”: Why Unpaid Student Teaching Is Driving Aspiring Educators Out of the Profession
A new survey and policy brief released by the CEA Aspiring Educator Program underscore the financial hardship and deterrent to becoming an educator that unpaid student teaching represents.
Education Committee Advances Bill to Raise Teacher Pay
In an important step forward for educators, the Education Committee met yesterday and advanced several key bills—including Senate Bill 1459, which aims to boost teacher salaries.
Aspiring Educators Urge Lawmakers: Pay Student Teachers
CEA Aspiring Educators are speaking out at a public hearing of the legislature’s Education Committee today, letting lawmakers know why it’s so important that education students receive pay for student teaching.
Aspiring Educators Share Challenges to Becoming a Teacher from Low Pay to Inadequate Support
A dozen CEA Aspiring Educators shared with Education Committee Co-Chair Rep. Jennifer Leeper and Co-Vice Chair Rep. Kevin Brown how difficult the path to teaching is today with costs that mount during unpaid student teaching and low salaries once they finally enter the profession and begin to pay back student loans.