What is the cheapest way to get a RA teaching credential?

Hello everyone fairly new here and just trying to join the college world and its very confusing Ive been at it for about 2-3 days now researching and I want to pull my hair out and not do it at all.
My current situation is this. I understand there is no easy way to get it done and im willing to put in the work. Looking for cheapest and mostly or all online. I am from New York and looking to get into teaching special education. I have 9 credits through Suffolk Community College along with 6 from there Analyzing and Interpreting Literature CLEP exam. the 9 are Art 101 , Music 101 and Criminal Justice 101. My plan is to get an associates done thats transferable to maybe St Josephs College in NY where they offer dual certification for elementary/secondary in one program.(hopefully online i can do this). My MAIN focus at this time is finding a cheap online program to start off to finish my associates to get my headed in that direction. I appreciate all the options people give me but 5 options will just confuse me. Im bran new at this and I dont even know where to start theres so much out there.

Thank you all

 

I put a copy of your thread over on the Education forum. I notice that you received a reply there. Here's a link: Education, Teaching and related degrees