Schools Supt.-to-be Madeline Negrón greets Lincoln-Bassett students Thursday morning.
New Haven’s first-ever Latina schools superintendent greeted Ecuadorian-born student Bryan Panata with an “Hola,” made a Puerto Rican geography connection with Wilbur Cross junior Lunaa Omar, and remarked on how bilingual education has advanced since her childhood days working to learn English in a basement classroom.
Supt.-to-be Madeline Negrón with current NHPS leader Iline Tracey.
Former New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) teacher, principal, and director of education and current Hartford Public Schools Acting Deputy Superintendent Madeline Negrón will become the city’s next top schools official starting July 1, thanks to a unanimous vote of approval taken by the Board of Education Wednesday afternoon.
The city’s school district is looking to replace a persistently leaky roof in Hillhouse High School’s auditorium — with questions remaining about the procedural thorniness of a “multi-year” repair contract that extends from May to July, as well as about how delays to this needed fix might affect the school’s accreditation.
A Peels & Wheels bin-full of compost: Coming soon to NHPS?
As New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) searches for a new food service director, the district is also looking to make some sustainability-centered changes to how it handles what doesn’t get eaten — including by introducing school-based composting programs.
Dave John Cruz-Bustamante: CT schools should look like "palaces."
Teacher-protesters defining vocab.
Connecticut is the wealthiest state in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, Wilbur Cross junior Dave John Cruz-Bustamante told a crowd of educators gathered across the street from their school.
“But you wouldn’t know that from looking at our desks.”
The Board of Education has scheduled a special meeting for Wednesday afternoon to vote to ratify a contract with the school system’s new superintendent, according to a member of the search committee.
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John Nguyen, newly tapped to be NHPS's supervisor of research, assessment and evaluation.
Two assistant principals rose the ranks to new leadership roles in the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) district, even as school board members raised questions about which vacancies need to be filled now, and which should be left open until the next superintendent is hired.
Vegans, beware. Cheesy school products get budget bump.
The city’s school board agreed to hand over extra cheese to a fromage contractor in a food-focused budget vote, prompting a debate around how much cheddar the district actually saves when choosing minimum-bid contracts that bulk up midyear.
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Exchanging student stories -- and building empathy -- at HSC.
High School in the Community (HSC) freshman Kiley was convinced she would never get along with a senior student she found herself sitting across the table from.
After each high-schooler opened up to “exchange” personal, vulnerable stories with the other, the two students wound up trading phone numbers — and found they had more in common than they first thought.
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The history of anti-literacy laws in the United States dates back to the mid 18th century and the early 19th century. These laws were specifically designed to prevent Blacks both enslaved and free, from learning to read and write. The fear was a literate slave would have the means to forge documents that would aid in his/her escape from bondage. The fear was not unfounded. Many literate slaves did just that.
The Board of Education has finished interviewing all three finalists to be New Haven’s next schools superintendent, who could be picked — on their merits, school board members attest, and not because of personal friendships — as early as next Monday.
Supt. Tracey: "I might be leaving here not closing a budget" if full $207M is not approved.
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Top school-district officials pitched alders on sending the Board of Education $207 million next fiscal year — as they made their case for why rising teacher salaries and special education costs warrant $4 million more than what the mayor has proposed.
Sayed Taha at NHPS career fair: “Students here also need a lot of help, love and support, and I hope I can give them that as a teacher.”
After teaching English in his home country of Afghanistan as recently as nine months ago, new New Haven resident Sayed Taha hopes to pick his educator career back up as a New Haven Public Schools teacher.
Taha was one of roughly 150 interested candidates to pursue that potential job opportunity at the district’s career fair — all as he continues to work with NHPS on moving up from his current role as a Hillhouse tutor by first receiving his teacher certification.
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Fair Haven School's Lesly Lopez introducing vocab in dual-language lesson.
Hannah Tanguay was on a mission to teach her Fair Haven School first-graders two different definitions of the class’s newest vocabulary word: “store.”
She had a trick up her sleeve to keep her students engaged — and the school district administrators at the side of the room took note as they observed a classroom model for how to focus young learners’ attentions and ward off distractions.
Barnard kindergartener Max shows teacher Jocelyn Freeman his completed workbook assignment in a classroom piloting the HMH reading program.
The city’s school district has picked Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s (HMH) Into Reading and ¡Arriba la Lectura! programs to anchor a new approach to teaching literacy for kindergarten through fifth grade.
L'Oréal Exec Erica Culpepper with ESUMS ninth-grader Layla Travers.
A budding beauty products entrepreneur scored a bottle of Kiehl’s creme de corps body lotion — along with inspiration from an elder whose heels she could picture inhabiting.
Isidore "Izzy" Juda with 1938 passport issued after escaping to Switzerland.
Midway through a discussion at Congress Avenue’s John C. Daniels School, fifth-grader Lucas Rivera posed a question to Holocaust survivor Isidor “Izzy” Juda that caused Rivera’s roughly 50 classmates to inch even further forward in their seats.
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Clemente sixth-grader Luis with oily oyster science experiment.
With science fair judge Robin Querker.
Will oysters survive if submerged in motor oil?
Roberto Clemente sixth-grader Luis set out to answer that question — as he crafted a locally relevant science fair project focused on environmental harms to New Haven bivalves.
Conte West Hills Magnet School: Exiled 3rd-grader can return.
A Conte West Hills third-grader can finish out the last few months of the school year at her Wooster Square “magnet” school — thanks to a Board of Education vote to reverse the district administration’s decision to bar the young student from her New Haven classroom after finding out that she lives in Hamden.
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Rendering of proposed new childcare campus at ex-Cine 4 site.
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David Symond, Jr., Allyx Schiavone, Margo Early, and Karin Patriquin on Wednesday.
The corn will keeping popping at the central ticketing-and-candy counter of the old Cine 4 movie theater — even as that entryway fixture is converted into a reception desk for a planned new early education campus now in the works on Middletown Avenue.
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The school district's FY24 budget request.
The Board of Education voted unanimously to approve a proposed $207 million schools budget request for next fiscal year, teeing up that financial plan — which is more than $3 million above what the mayor has proposed sending the district’s way — for review by the Board of Alders.
Earlier this week, the New Haven Board of Education announced three finalists in its search for a new Superintendent, one of the most consequential roles in local government.
The Board has a long and unfortunate history of hiring at all levels based on the trading of favors between adults, rather than objective standards of professional experience and performance delivering outcomes for kids. The children and families of our beloved city have paid a steep price for this insider trading.
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Panelists (clockwise from top left) Darnell Goldson, Dietria Wells, Leroy Williams, Jamilah Prince Stewart, Larry Conaway, and Jose Champagne, at Monday night's forum.
Educators, advocates and parents ditched the “blame game” to brainstorm about how to help New Haven students do better in school during a time of various national challenges.
