Board of Education member Darnell Goldson raised those questions Monday during a press conference focused on just how little information the school board has received to date about the early summer cybercrime.
Cyberattacks stole around $6 million meant for First Student school buses.
Hackers impersonating the city school district’s chief operating officer succeeded in stealing over $6 million in city funds that were largely meant to pay for New Haven school buses.
With the help of the FBI, the Elicker administration has clawed back more than half of that public money — as the city continues to investigate what exactly went wrong, and how to make sure such a cyberattack doesn’t happen again.
Dave Cruz-Bustamante: "The system and violence is collapsing around us."
Last year, Dave Cruz-Bustamante would occasionally spend four out of six school-day hours sitting in a classroom with no teacher present.
This summer, the rising Wilbur Cross senior has rediscovered their love for learning at a five-week Yale University academic program — even as they’ve become more aware than ever of New Haven’s town-gown divide.
And next year, during their final year as a student representative on the Board of Education, they’re hoping to amplify student voices, rekindle their peers’ engagement with learning, and maybe spark a revolution along the way.
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A newly minted graduate accepts her diploma from Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison.
Forty-two high school seniors from eight different New Haven public high schools were celebrated for their accomplishments and perseverance after working through summer school to attain the credits needed to receive their diplomas.
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Troup graduate and school board Prez Yesenia Rivera reads to Troup second graders.
Board of Education President Yesenia Rivera returned to her alma mater middle school on Edgewood Avenue — and then traveled with the help of a children’s book back home to the beaches of Puerto Rico — while reading to second graders at one of the public school district’s summer programming sites.
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Miguel Cardona (center, in blue suit) with PRU's board on Wednesday.
The nation’s top education official came to the Cove Wednesday night to pledge his support for the city’s new superintendent and fellow Boricua, as part of a hundreds-strong celebration of New Haven’s Puerto Rican community.
The New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) district is looking to hire a new principal for Hillhouse High School, now that Mark Sweeting has stepped down from the role roughly one month before the start of the school year.
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Andrea Downer with fellow Ward 27 co-chair Judy Sparer on Tuesday night.
Andrea Downer won the local Democratic Party’s endorsement in her challenger bid to serve on the city’s Board of Education, as two-term incumbent Darnell Goldson opted not to be nominated at the convention — and now must petition his way onto the primary ballot.
Kristina DeNegre: ""It feels amazing to be home again."
A former New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) principal is returning to the district to fill a long-vacant assistant superintendent post, after the Board of Education approved Madeline Negrón’s first executive appointment since stepping into the top schools role.
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Andrea Downer at Friday's joint ward committee meeting.
Andrea Downer took another step towards securing the local Democratic Party’s endorsement in her bid to unseat incumbent elected Board of Education rep Darnell Goldson, after winning the support of two Democratic ward committees in East Rock, and tying on the third.
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I got your back: Alberto Wednesday with new mentor.
Huddled in the hallway, Wilbur Cross senior Alejandro Delacruz offered pre-game tips to incoming freshman Alberto Colon: Be confident. And keep your grades up if you want to be on the baseball team.
Inside a summer classroom, Ayanna Perez wrote the letters D‑O-T on a white board for King and Legacy to slowly sound out, rather than try to guess or memorize the word.
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Rising third grader Machi codes a thunderstorm.
A digital thunderstorm rumbled into a Conte West School classroom of rising third graders who were in the middle of a computer-code-created camping trip.
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LULAC Head Start ED Mikyle Byrd-Vaughn: "Our services are impacting children's full development."
As a dozen preschoolers laughed and bounced around a fenced-in outdoor playground on Haven Street, city and state officials gathered in a Fair Haven childcare center’s parking lot to celebrate a $2 million early-childhood-education boost from the state.
Madeline Negrón at first official Board of Education meeting Monday.
New schools Supt. Madeline Negrón promised not to shake things up in the public school district until she has first had time to hear from school staff, students, families, and the community.
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Supt. Negrón learning Hillhouse cheer from middle school students at Nathan Hale ...
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... and chatting with students at Troup.
The city’s new public school leader Madeline Negrón kicked off her first week on the job with some summer-camp cheerleading, the occasional selfie with enthusiastic staff members, checking in on a first-grade reading session, and working through the details of a new strategy to address chronic absenteeism with the help of local grandmas.
The Board of Alders “reluctantly” approved a one-year, $30.7 million school bus contract between the Board of Education and First Student that would have been nearly $1 million cheaper had the school board not turned down an initial multi-year deal with the bus company.
A 2022 New Haven Climate Movement “Stop Climate Freefall” rally.
Young climate activists are calling again for the Board of Education to set aside funds for free bus passes for students to help New Haven’s public school district reduce air pollution and make it easier for students to get to and from school.
Sarah Miller, center, proposes Board of Ed reform by charter.
Despite a push from dozens of New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) community members, alders decided not to amend the city charter to restructure the Board of Education to include mandatory seats for current public-school parents.
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Book Award recipients with New Haven Links President Toni Harp.
Howard University, Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU), Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), University of Hartford, and Morgan State University are the next stops for seven New Haven high school graduates who each got a helping hand from a historic Black female advocacy organization to chase their higher-education dreams.
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Newly appointed assistant principals Jonathan Berryman, Talima Andrews-Harris, Emma Papandrea, and Caroline Apgar.
Hillhouse, Coop, Troup, and King Robinson will all see new assistant principals next school year, thanks to the latest promotions approved by the Board of Education — which also said goodbye to the city’s superintendent just days before her retirement.
Lynn Brantley presents 2022-2023 spring reading data to the Board of Ed.
As Lynn Brantley bid farewell to the district she’s served for the past three decades, the soon-to-retire New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) literacy director offered a glass-half-full perspective on students’ small but mighty reading strides since last fall.
