Four months after New Haven Academy Spanish teacher Luis Rivera came down with Covid-19, he feels lingering fatigue from the illness.
Rivera still manages to spend hours after school making sure that his students who speak limited English can finish their homework during the pandemic’s remote learning. He was once an English learner too.
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Nov 2, 2020 10:40 am
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(Opinion.) If you don’t know who the late Rita F. Pierson is, you probably aren’t a schoolteacher.
Pierson was a tireless educator of 40 years who famously declared in her inspirational TED Talk that “every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be.”
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Oct 31, 2020 8:59 pm
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The Knickerbocker Golf Club, Inc. made sure the kids of Newhallville didn’t fret this Halloween, finding a Covid-safe way to stage its 10th Annual Inner City Kid Safe Halloween Celebration.
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Oct 30, 2020 11:01 pm
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The city’s Covid-19 safety crew shut down Anthony’s Ocean View Friday night after the waterfront Morris Cove restaurant was accused of hosting a large, indoor, densely packed, almost-entirely-mask-free party — just as coronavirus cases surge across the region and the state.
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Oct 30, 2020 7:01 pm
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Following a spike of Covid-19 cases in the state, Hamden Mayor Curt Leng announced Friday evening that Hamden will roll back to the state’s “Phase II” partial economic shutdown guidelines in an attempt to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Oct 29, 2020 3:01 pm
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New Haven Academy freshman Jeremyah Newton at city learning hub.
The vast majority of New Haven Public Schools’ (NHPS) 20,500 students will continue learning all-online for the foreseeable future — as Mayor Justin Elicker announced the school system has pushed back its hybrid reopening date because of the spike in local Covid-19 cases.
And New Haven itself will revert to “Phase II” mode of partial economic shutdown in an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
Superintendent Iline Tracey: Most disengaged students do have computers and internet.
It is the ninth week of school and 3percent of New Haven Public Schools students still have not logged onto virtual classes at all. Another 11 percent, or 2,126 students, are logging on sporadically.
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Oct 28, 2020 10:29 am
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A sweet, eerie film about teenagers adapting to adulthood also marked Best Video’s first adventure in streaming, as on Monday evening Hank Hoffman, Best Video’s executive director, announced that it was hosting the virtual theatrical release of Ham on Rye, which opened virtually in 22 different venues around the country on Oct. 23.
Grubaugh: A test so easy a kindergartener can do it.
Every teacher, lunch lady, custodian and high school student would take a weekly test to determine whether they have caught Covid-19 — without costing schools, workers or families a cent.
Yale professor Nathan Grubaugh revealed that proposal for weekly saliva testing at Monday night’s Board of Education meeting.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 27, 2020 5:24 pm
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Yale doc and vaccine trial principal investigator Onyema Ogbuagu.
Roughly 300 locals are currently enrolled in a 44,000-participant, international Covid-19 vaccine trial that Yale New Haven Hospital’s principal investigator anticipates might lead to a final, approved vaccine by late December or early January at the soonest.
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Oct 27, 2020 11:55 am
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Jacob Payne: 17 tests, and counting
UNH is ramping up random testing. Albertus is focusing on student-athletes, who get swabbed every other week. Yale is screening all undergrads twice weekly. Most commuter students at Southern needn’t get tested at all.
Those four New Haven schools have tried different approaches to Covid-19 this semester — and preliminary results are in.
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Oct 27, 2020 10:37 am
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Singing. Dancing. Trivia. Beer floats. All this and more was part of the Shubert Theater’s second Covid-era installment of “Next Stop: New Haven,” a fundraiser and night of entertainment on Monday evening that featured Broadway stars, the Shubert staff, and a host of downtown restaurants who contributed snacks and libations to make an evening at home feel like an evening out.
After a five-month internal review, the police chief announced that local officers who pepper sprayed a crowd of anti-police brutality protesters amidst a tense, 12-hour standoff this summer “acted within the color of the law,” “were professional,” and will not be disciplined.
He also said the incident convinced the department to adopt different tactics in subsequent protests.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 26, 2020 4:42 pm
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Schneska Murphy: “If you’re gonna help the people, then help them.”
Eight weeks after launching an $800,000 Covid-related rental-aid program, the city hasn’t distributed a cent — leaving renters like Schneska Murphy struggling to figure out how to qualify.
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Oct 26, 2020 9:52 am
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A team of Fair Haven-based artists brought some color — and some comfort — to the Veterinary Wellness Center on State Street, with the addition of outdoor seating for the center’s waiting area that doubles as public art.
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Oct 23, 2020 4:58 pm
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School cafeteria workers posing with Mayor Justin Elicker on the front steps of City Hall.
Over a dozen public school cafeteria workers served up a petition to the mayor Friday in a push to save their jobs, and keep New Haven school children fed, during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
