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Eighth and ninth-graders get virtual presentation at Social Justice Summer Camp.
New Haven Public Schools are working on a more structured way to teach quarantining kids this academic year and going forward.
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ESUMS Principal Medria Blue: new reading, tech, AP econ, social-emotional plans in works.
More outdoor classrooms. Visits from local artists. New cybersecurity courses. Improvements to a greenhouse. A wellness room for school staff.
Those are some plans principals have for investing a chunk of the federal pandemic relief coming to New Haven Public Schools.
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Seniors Benjamin DeBlasio, Gianie Figueroa, and Johanyx Rodriguez.
A trio of High School in the Community (HSC) seniors finished their high school careers with ideas for life-changing improvements to local education curricula in mind.
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Superintendent Birks, Mayor Harp: Two views on what comes next.
About to embark on a new era of school reforms, New Haven finds itself at a crossroads in deciding exactly who should drive the change — and how.
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Students Brayan and Kiana with “leader” Brown.
Brayan Canas was worried that a new principal would wreck his high school. So he complained — and got to help choose which principal to hire.
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Toni Harp returned to a neighborhood where she faced fierce opposition two years ago, and emerged with a unanimous endorsement for reelection as mayor.
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Buildilng leader Good (pictured) got the boot.
Schools Superintendent Garth Harries has removed the entire leadership team at High School in the Community, leaving its teacher-run tradition in doubt.
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As other students read through their own worksheets, Natenen Conde sprang from her seat and rushed up to her principal with a declaration: “I finished everything.”
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The president of the teachers union sent a letter urging union teachers not to support a proposed Board of Education financial partnership with Achievement First (AF) charter on an experimental new school.
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Toll and Cicarella continuing discussing the proposed Elm City Imagine after Monday night’s board meeting.
A “huge step backward”? Or a way for traditional public schools to team up with charters to experiment with new ways for kids to learn?
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Breland: Coping with mid-year charter-school transfers.
Some 14.5 percent of all of Principal Sabrina Breland’s students at Wexler/Grant Community School transferred in last year after Oct. 1.
That statistic appeared in preliminary “data sets” the Board of Ed has begun examining in a complex quest to the best way of measure how schools perform and help them improve.
Continue reading ‘Data Breakdown Highlights Transience Challenge’
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Amistad teacher Francisco Cerna at the rally.
Marian Woodson, grandmother of a student at Wexler Grant.
Connecticut’s charter school movement showed its political muscle Wednesday by bringing more than 6,000 parents, teachers, community leaders, and students to form a sea of neon green T‑shirts across the New Haven Green — while remaining coy about the details of its school-reform agenda.
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In the five years since New Haven launched a lauded school-reform drive, it has increased the number of students enrolled in college for two years — but failed to close the performance gap between the city and the rest of the state.
Continue reading ‘School Reform Misses Some Numerical Targets’
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Parents, students and teachers found themselves doing the “wobble” on the green of Lincoln-Bassett School. The dance wasn’t planned — but the effect of the dance was.
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Booker T. Washington leaders at last week’s state board meeting.
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Pelto: “Election-year gimmick.”
In the wake of recent controversies, the state announced plans to start requiring that charter schools operate more like other public schools — “transparently,” with clear standards to meet.
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Varick congregants traveled up to Monday’s hearing.
Rev. Morrison: “FUSE was not the core.”
HARTFORD — A new New Haven charter school won permission from the State Board of Education Monday to launch this coming school year, after all.
The board called a special meeting Monday afternoon to consider the fate of the Booker T. Washington Academy (BTWA). After a two-and-a-half hour hearing, the board voted unanimously to allow the academy a revised charter to open its doors on Sept. 15 to 120 K‑1 students.
Continue reading ‘State Board OKs Charter’s Sept. 15 Opening’
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Principal Brown-Clayton at Monday’s announcement.
Mayor Toni Harp’s campaign pledge to bring a nearly 11-hour optional school day to Lincoln-Bassett School came true Monday, as the state announced it will help pay the bill.
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Achievement First CEO Dacia Toll.
Elm City College Preparatory Middle School has emerged as the most likely seat of an ambitious experiment to reinvent K‑8 education with two-week-long student expeditions, daily martial arts, and a “huge” investment in technology.
Continue reading ‘Elm City Charter Eyed For Futuristic “Conversion”’
by | Jul 22, 2014 9:02 am | Comments (3)
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Comer pioneered a child development idea a half-century ago at Brennan-Rogers, where it returns this fall.
One of New Haven’s experimental school sites ditched a hot modern education-reform idea, an extra-long school day, and is bringing back an older idea — daily tough talks to help kids deal with trauma.
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New Principal Janet Brown-Clayton.
At the new Lincoln-Bassett School, teachers will come early. Students will be invited to stay late. Class sizes will be smaller. Staff will use the Comer Method to help kids cope with trauma.
Continue reading ‘Principal Cleans House, Charts Turnaround’
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Morrison.
After firing their scandal-plagued management partner, Rev. Eldren Morrison and his colleagues hired a $150,000 school director and voted to open their new charter school next month anyway — with 120 instead of 225 kids.
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Six weeks before she is set to open an academy within Hillhouse High, Principal Fallon Daniels and her new assistant pondered a question: Would a first-period gym class lure kids to show up on time to school?
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Displaced teacher Alex Oji: “How are we going to be successful” at the next school?
Twenty-nine teachers are leaving Lincoln-Bassett and MicroSociety schools — some voluntarily, some not — to make way for slated overhauls of low-performing schools. Where will they go next?
by | Jul 11, 2014 4:29 pm | Comments (26)
Amid scandals affecting New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said the state education department “needs to do a better job” in monitoring charter schools — but stood by his expansion of charters across the state.
Continue reading ‘Guv Defends Charters, Calls For More Scrutiny’
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Rev. Eldren Morrison trekked to Hartford Wednesday to issue an urgent appeal to the state to let him open his new charter school next month — with a last-minute change in management.