Hilaria Ogando joins calls for Board of Ed parent representation, more elected members, and mayor's removal.
Hilaria Ogando wants someone on the Board of Education who knows what she knows: what it’s like to have so many substitute teachers in her child’s school, to hear about persistent bullying, to lose the lottery for a coveted magnet school seat.
“Parents, we see what’s happening in the schools every day, and we see what our children need,” Ogando said through a translator.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 15, 2023 3:40 pm
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New Haven Academy grads (clockwise from top left): Taylor Council, Isaiah Becton, Thailyn Geter, Kyrell Carter, and Paris Feliciano.
New Haven Academy’s Class of 2023 took one last moment before graduating to recall four years worth of memories together — including singing High School Musical songs in the middle of classes, overcoming the fallout of remote learning, and putting on the school’s first ever theatrical production.
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Jun 15, 2023 11:57 am
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NHPS COO Thomas Lamb: "Busing prices have increased."
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A one-year, $30.7 million school bus contract that is set to start in less than a month took another wheel-spin forward — even as local legislators criticized school board members for putting them in an unfairly tight spot.
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Mia Cortés Castro |
Jun 14, 2023 5:37 pm
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Newly minted Coop grad Imalis Cotto, with diploma ...
.. and cap displaying her favorite animal, a raccoon, painted by Oddo De La Cruz.
Coop High School theater student Imalis Cotto needed some help decorating her cap in time for graduation on Wednesday. So she called in friend and visual arts Coop classmate Oddo De La Cruz to lend a helping hand.
HSC Salutatorian Gian Rodriguez: "The future is ours to say."
Try to find a way to make the world a bit brighter than it is today.
Local artist Kwadwo Adae and High School in the Community Salutatorian Gian Rodriguez delivered that hope- and sorrow-filled challenge in separate graduation ceremony speeches Tuesday as they painted a path forward in Wooster Square Park.
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Jun 14, 2023 2:24 pm
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At Wilbur Cross' 102nd commencement ceremony.
Newly minted Cross grads Kayla and Makayla Edwards.
Wilbur Cross cheerleading co-captains and twin sisters Kayla and Makayla Edwards haven’t had a lot to cheer about over the past four years — until, that is, they did.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 14, 2023 9:29 am
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Baron Ramon Young.
A Michigan public school district child nutrition manager will be the city’s next top schools food official, thanks to a hire newly approved by the Board of Education.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 14, 2023 8:58 am
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Artist Adae with Common Ground student Leon Armstrong.
Kids with hands upraised half way between shouting hallelujah and playing volleyball with an immense sun. A green plant as imposing as Jack’s beanstalk growing out of the palm of one girl’s outstretched hand while goats, cats and two hens, notably a Buff Orpington and a Polish chicken, dash happily underfoot.
Those joyous images are at the heart of “Class of 2025,” a lush and engaging mural executed by long-time New Haven muralist Kwadwo Adae and the entire sophomore class (thus the title) at Common Ground High School.
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Jun 13, 2023 4:54 pm
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Kaniya Rogers and Alayjah Ford: "I’m feeling good and excited to be graduating."
Sporting graduation caps covered in colorful flowers and pink feathers, Kaniya Rogers and Alayjah Ford took advantage of the few moments before graduation to celebrate their time at Hillhouse High School — and to look forward to hoped-for careers in healthcare and cosmetology.
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Jun 12, 2023 1:34 pm
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First Student school bus contract on tap for a one-year extension.
The Board of Education signed off on a $30 million temporary fix to make sure that public school students have busing this summer and next school year.
Dedication to Rosenstone and handwritten note from former student Natalie Beach in a new book of essays.
Caroline Rosenstone, who created and then for over three decades directed a writing program that turned high schoolers into skilled essayists and critics, died this week at the age of 70.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 8, 2023 3:35 pm
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Magda Colón: "Teach out of love and with love."
Colón with family at Thursday's celebration.
Just like during every other day of the school year, East Rock Spanish teacher Magda Colón came to work on Thursday ready to celebrate the hard work of her students.
This time, she was in for a surprise — when her students and school staff turned that praise around, and presented her with an award recognizing the impact she’s had on their lives.
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Jun 8, 2023 12:20 pm
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Renderings of apartment buildings one step closer to rising, clockwise from top left: Strong School, Chapel & State, Munson & Henry, Miller Street.
Alders paved the way for 212 more affordable apartments to materialize in four different neighborhoods — including at the former Strong School on Grand Avenue — along with two education initiatives for hundreds of kids and adults.
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Jun 8, 2023 9:41 am
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Newly minted GED graduate Raquel Cuiman with family ...
... at Adult Ed graduation ceremony at the Omni.
Six months ago, Raquel Cuiman was in a hospital bed fighting for her life against Covid for a second time.
This week, with the support of her family, friends, and mentors at the New Haven Adult & Continuing Education Center, she received her GED — and is now pursuing a dream to help others overcome the same health and emotional and educational obstacles she found a way to clear.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 6, 2023 9:43 am
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Lila Kleppner: Not going to eat that? Into the compost it goes!
When Wilbur Cross High School senior Lila Kleppner saw a classmate walking toward the cafeteria trash bin, she leapt into action — with a five-gallon bucket in hand, intent on diverting that student’s food scraps from a landfill-bound pile to a community compost heap instead.
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Jun 6, 2023 8:43 am
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At Monday's Shakespeare-in-the-schools rehearsal.
Nineteen middle-schoolers, all dressed in black, filed into the band room of Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School. They were preparing for the dress rehearsal of their production of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
Before they took the stage, however, they partook in a light refreshment of fruit snacks, Cheez-Its, juice boxes — and grapes. When the students dangled bunches of the purple fruit from their hands, they looked for all the world like the Roman citizens they were about to embody.
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Jun 5, 2023 12:08 pm
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Cesar and Giovanni Mendez at NHPS "Seal of Biliteracy" ceremony.
Sound School senior Cesar Mendez wore a purple cord to symbolize his bilingual superpower — and so that his younger brother Giovanni can now recognize him as the hero that he is.
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Jun 2, 2023 10:07 am
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Josh Burgess, Alex Alvarado, Erick Russell, and Leila Ayers at Career pride celebration.
Career High School sophomore Alex Alvarado struggled to hold back tears as he listened to the country’s first openly gay Black statewide elected official — and a fellow New Havener — advocate on behalf of transgender students like himself.
Nector Santos at the head of the Clinton Ave bike-club-graduation pack.
If you genuinely want to grow bicycle culture in New Haven, start with the kids. And, specifically, all the kids, by making cycling a regular part of the physical education curriculum in the public schools. And just to be sure, carry it over into after-school cycling clubs as well.
Theo Herzog, fourth from the front, with his crew.
Theo Herzog started out playing youth soccer in New Haven, and loved it. Then a knee injury sidelined him for good. Thanks to the Crew Haven program at the Canal Dock Boathouse, he discovered rowing — and got good enough at it to rank among the top rowers in his age group; he heads to Florida next week to participate with his team in the U.S. Rowing Junior National Championships, and is scheduled to compete later this summer to represent the U.S. in an international competition. In the above video, Herzog, a 17-year-old junior at ESUMS, speaks about his journey and his dreams.
