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.
“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.
A First Step Toward Paid Student Teaching: New Loan Relief for CT Educators
Thanks to a law that passed last legislative session, educators who recently completed their student teaching are now entitled to student loan reimbursement up to $5,000 a year for 50 or more hours of uncompensated work necessary to earn their degree.
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.
More of Us Would Go into Teaching—and Stay—If…
Hear what aspiring and early career educators have to say about their challenges, their hopes for the profession, and concrete ways to curb the teacher shortage.