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Ruby Bridges in Woolsey Hall.
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Lauren Anderson and Janeska.
As Ruby Bridges spoke about making civil rights history simply by going to school, 15-year-old Janeska reflected on her own experience at a new high school this year.
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New Haven Public Schools is running a nearly $6 million budget deficit this fiscal year, which is increasingly resulting in cuts to student field trips and tutors.
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Superintendent Negrón: We're on it.
Connecticut’s minimum wage rose to $15.69 in 2024 — but Abe Benghiat’s substitute teaching paycheck stayed at $15.
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KaNai Goodwin-Kellman prepares for a rebound as teammate Harmoni Thomas shoots a free throw.
In a neck-and-neck 11th game of the season, the Wilbur Cross Lady Governors eked out their first win Monday night thanks to a final free throw.
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Flake singing at Stetson Library with family and Monk Youth Jazz.
“Kind of surreal” is how Marcella Monk Flake described winning a Connecticut Arts Hero award this year. But in a sense, Flake’s award is the most natural thing in the world, another step in a life steeped in the arts, education, and community since before she was a child.
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Edgewood students sing with Thabisa Rich.
The Edgewood Free Birds took flight on stage, dancing and singing about their dreams for love, peace, and liberty for all.
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Daniels band hits "Misty" at citywide attendance event.
Seven students showed up to school Thursday and brought clarinets and flutes to their lips — to help New Haven celebrate the fact that more kids are showing up in school.
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Cross's Sirraya Pratt gets off a shot against Shelton.
Malaysia Lavonna Haynes signaled Cross’s next play on the court with a raised fist in the air and set up her teammate Sirraya Pratt for an open shot.
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Huggins helps a Cross student scan in for a summer job.
Ronald Huggins made his way through the Wilbur Cross High School hallways greeting students with handshakes and a “What’s up bro?”
And a pitch to enter the summer jobs pipeline.
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Wilbur Cross and Wooster Square are going electric — or, at least, readying to keep electric cars going.
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Lady Governors on the road: "One, two, three ... TOGETHER!"
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Wilbur Cross's Gabi Rodriguez takes a three-pointer against Foran.
Gabi Rodriguez had a lousy day at school. You wouldn’t have guessed that watching her sink three pointers that evening.
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Hillhouse incoming principal Antoine Billy: On a mission to keep students' dreams from being deferred.
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Poster made by a NHPS paraprofessional for Monday's meeting.
The Board of Education heard about and took action Monday night on leadership of schools as well as the board itself, then received a plea from paraprofessionals for renewed contract negotiation.
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A parent of a Conte pre-schooler called on the Board of Education Monday night to figure out how to “rebuild trust” in the wake of an investigation into abusive classroom behavior.
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Fulton pushes for a layup.
With eight minutes and 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Wilbur Cross sophomore Jackie Fulton leaped into action after a teammate missed a shot. She caught the rebound and reached up to bounce the ball off the backboard and into the hoop.
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(Updated Monday 6:49 p.m.) –Hillhouse High School is getting its fourth principal in three years, pending a vote by the Board of Education.
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NHPS Food Services Director Baron Young: Backing up student ID numbers will avoid cafeteria traffic jams.
Faster lunch lines. More student feedback. Less wasted food.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) Food Services Director Baron Young has these goals in mind as he learns and works to resolve a myriad of food-related concerns six months into the role.
Continue reading ‘NHPS Food Chief Seeks Shorter Cafeteria Lines’
by | Jan 5, 2024 3:26 pm | Comments (61)
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Negrón (at left): "This has to be done with community, not to community."
New Haven’s shrinking student enrollment means it’s time to start considering closing some aging and under-utilized public school buildings.
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The Board of Education is looking to bring a new fleet of electric school buses to New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Schools Seek Federal $ To Electrify Bus Fleet’
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Downer swears in Monday at city inauguration.
Troy Wyile walked onto the Wilbur Cross High School auditorium stage Monday to present a bouquet to his former tutor — as she embarks on a new route to help young people up their learning game in New Haven.
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Dec. 21 special Board of Education meeting.
Hold your breath: New Haven is seeking state money to improve indoor air quality in schools.
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A mural painted in Hillhouse's cafeteria last school year.
Hillhouse didn’t have to give back any unspent money to the state after all — and was able to roll over more than $190,000 in last year’s school-improvement funds to the current school year.
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311 Valley: Future home of Edmonds Cofield Academy?
Rev. Boise Kimber’s plan to open a new boys-focused charter school has received a $2 million state boost — to help try to buy and renovate a vacant former public school building on Valley Street.
by | Dec 18, 2023 2:58 pm | Comments (0)
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Students sing loud and proud at Elm City Montessori's eighth annual Winter Sing.
Students, families, and teachers bundled together in the subfreezing temperature at Elm City Montessori School (ECMS) to lift their voices in song during the school’s eighth annual Winter Sing — which played out as candles flickered, under the silhouette of West Rock.
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by | Dec 14, 2023 3:28 pm | Comments (15)
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Paraprofessional Denise Roman gives Board of Ed a petition with 130 signatures in support of renegotiating the para contract rather than heading to arbitration.
Negotiations over a new contract for assistant teachers and parent liaisons has hit an impasse — as paraprofessionals cite too little pay, too much resistance from the public school district, and a contested union deal now heading to arbitration.
Continue reading ‘Paras Keep Up Pressure For New, Fair Contract’
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Metro high school volunteers Bayan Albakkhour and Hagar Ali.
“This is mystery, this is history, this is sports, and this is romance, but she’s probably too young for that.”
That was the charming pitch from Bayan Albakkhour, a Metropolitan Business Academy sophomore, to a New Haven Public Schools parent and her curious 8‑year-old daughter — one of hundreds of students with their families who filled the lobby of Wilbur Cross High School for a “festival of books.”