by | Mar 21, 2023 11:02 am | Comments (4)
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NHPS proposed 2023-24 general funds budget.
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The city’s public school district tentatively plans to ask City Hall for $207 million next fiscal year — marking a 6 percent increase above the current year’s schools budget, and coming in at more than $3 million above what the mayor has proposed sending the Board of Education’s way.
by | Mar 20, 2023 3:07 pm | Comments (20)
Finalists Viviana Conner, Warren Morgan, Madeline Negrón.
One current top New Haven school administrator, one who fled the Birks administration and a school system leader from the Midwest are the final candidates to serve as New Haven’s next superintendent.
by | Mar 20, 2023 3:03 pm | Comments (2)
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Haender Ventura with his new track spikes, which he'll try out at practice after completing his in-school job running the printing press.
The news about this summer’s city offerings for kids was hot off the presses Monday at the Wilbur Cross High School print shop.
Joining public officials at a press conference held there, Cross Senior Haender Ventura spoke of how he was able to buy a new pair of $200 Nike spikes since finding employment through the city’s “Youth@Work” program.
This summer he plans to double his hours on the job so he can pay college tuition and put his shoes to work themselves, by joining the University of New Haven’s track team while he pursues a career in sports therapy.
by | Mar 17, 2023 9:11 am | Comments (6)
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Katelyn Giusti: "Thank you for your thinking."
“Secure your thinking caps tightly,” Barnard teacher Katelyn Giusti advised her classroom full of kindergartners — as they prepared to dive into a chimpanzee-focused reading assignment and test out a new school district approach to literacy.
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by | Mar 16, 2023 8:45 am | Comments (1)
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Warren Leftridge, Finn Crumlish, Amelia Tamborra-Walton.
Seymour, who works in a flower shop, has found an unusual plant. He stumbled across it during a total eclipse and has brought it to the store, where it’s attracting customers. His boss, Mr. Mushnik is pleased. But Seymour has discovered a terrible secret: the plant only grows by being fed human blood, and is ever hungry for more. Plus, it seems to be able to talk. What is Seymour going to do? And how will all of this affect the relationship he hopes to have with his co-worker, Audrey?
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by | Mar 14, 2023 5:01 pm | Comments (14)
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Monday's in-person watch party for online school board meeting.
Several dozen city teachers, parents, and public-school advocates were able to hear each other clap and cheer — live, in person, in the same room, together — during an in-person watch party for a Board of Education that has been meeting online only for the past three years.
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by | Mar 13, 2023 11:26 am | Comments (2)
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Brennan-Rogers fifth-graders with Black history museum owner Jeffrey Fletcher.
Tuskegee Airmen uniforms, Greensboro sit-in chairs, and historic newspaper clippings provided Brennan-Rogers fifth graders with an up-close look at Black history at a museum dedicated to African Americans past and present.
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by | Mar 9, 2023 11:35 am | Comments (1)
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SAGA's Shane Emery, Drake Ortiz, Colton, Jacob Smith, and Pete Solomon.
Amid the sometimes “rocky waves” of work and class and a tough time at home, Drake Ortiz has found a refuge in Sound School’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance (SAGA) — where they and their high-school peers can be themselves and talk about everything from their favorite movies to queer-friendly field trips to how best to prevent bullying of younger students.
by | Mar 9, 2023 9:04 am | Comments (2)
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Career office clerk Shirley Love joins school choir in "Lift Every Voice and Sing," performed at Black History assembly and celebration.
Hill Regional Career High School’s auditorium rang like a rolling sea as students lifted their voices to sing the Black National Anthem alongside school staffer Shirley Love, whose voice left the school full of the hope.
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by | Mar 8, 2023 5:00 pm | Comments (6)
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Marilyn DeJesus and John Antoni protest for higher pay, lower childcare costs.
Marilyn DeJesus was making $12 an hour as an early childhood educator — and paying $1,700 a month for childcare as a single parent.
Having since left that job to teach toddlers at a center with better compensation, DeJesus joined hundreds of other early educators on the Green to call for higher wages and lower childcare costs.
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by | Mar 8, 2023 11:32 am | Comments (15)
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More $ sought for more recycling (in the blue toters).
Regionalized composting, recycling bin chips, and refuse savvy students could all lie in New Haven’s future — if the city gets requested dollars and support needed to amp up sustainable waste management education and practices.
by | Mar 8, 2023 10:48 am | Comments (1)
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Kayliani, 10, and Mila, 11, with the Fall Preventer.
“We had a problem with kids falling off chairs,” explained Davis Academy fifth grader Mila. School chairs easily tip over when kids rock or lean over too much, which not only disrupts class, but can cause injuries.
So Mila and her co-inventor Kayliani came up with a solution: the Fall Preventer, a suction-powered, stick-on mat to keep chairs from toppling.
Continue reading ‘Student Inventors Keep Classmates Upright’
by | Mar 8, 2023 9:56 am | Comments (3)
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Fair Haven/East Rock Alder Claudia Herrera (center) with NHPS Asst. Supt. Keisha Redd-Hannans (right) on multilingual classroom visit.
Three alders got a firsthand look at the classroom needs and experiences of students who enter school speaking a language other than English, as they joined district leaders on a three-stop tour to talk with multilingual learners and their teachers.
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by | Mar 3, 2023 3:24 pm | Comments (38)
Woodbridge’s Board of Education voted to close its doors to new kindergarten students from New Haven next school year — sparking a debate about special education funding, racial and economic integration, and an urban-suburban divide that seems to be growing by the day.
by | Mar 3, 2023 8:51 am | Comments (2)
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At Conte West this school year.
Home visits, award ceremonies, and morning announcements to Conte West scholars that “every day counts” and “it’s cool to be in school” helped the Wooster Square magnet school decrease its chronic absenteeism rate by 13 percent since the start of the school year.
Continue reading ‘Principals Chart Path To Students' Presence’
by | Mar 2, 2023 3:12 pm | Comments (39)
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Kimber: 2nd time the charm.
Six years after the local Board of Education turned him down, Rev. Boise Kimber took his quest for permission to create an all-boys charter school to the state — and succeeded.
by | Mar 2, 2023 9:47 am | Comments (0)
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At Celentano School's final Black History Month celebration of the year.
Eighth-grader Akiellea Gooden honored her Jamaican roots on stage in front of her Celentano School classmates by sharing a quotation from a Black political icon and historical Caribbean compatriot, Marcus Garvey: “A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
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by | Mar 1, 2023 11:56 am | Comments (19)
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Diving in: Leslie Blatteau at WNHH FM.
School fights and lockdowns. Teacher flight. Staff shortages. Fights for funding. Calls for more elected school board members — and a school board willing to meet in public in person. A search for a new superintendent at a crucial juncture for public education.
Fourteen months into her presidency of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, Leslie Blatteau has found herself in the middle of these and other pressing public controversies. As a public school parent, as a New Haven teacher with 16 years in the classroom, and now as a labor leader, she has thought long and hard about these issues.
by | Mar 1, 2023 9:05 am | Comments (3)
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BOMUS second graders in cup-stacking competition.
Special education teacher Rebecca Smith shows off hula hooping skills.
Hula hooping, dance parties, coloring, and team cup-stacking competitions helped the students and staff of the Barack H. Obama Magnet University School (BOMUS) decompress mid-school year.
by | Feb 28, 2023 6:04 pm | Comments (16)
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At Monday's online Board of Education meeting.
Thirty-one applicants from across the country have thrown their hats in the ring to be the next superintendent of the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) district.
by | Feb 28, 2023 4:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Tuesday’s snow day gave Huân Ngô time to catch up on grading papers and preparing his students for New Haven’s jobs of tomorrow.
Continue reading ‘The Word On Maple Street: STEM? 'Snow Sweat’
by | Feb 27, 2023 3:21 pm | Comments (45)
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Shots fired at Orange and Lawrence.
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Lawrence Street, where officers found 20 shell casings.
(Updated) Less than four hours after drive-by gunfire locked down 10 city schools, police made arrests they believe are connected to the case.
by | Feb 24, 2023 2:10 pm | Comments (25)
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NHPS's Ekaterina Barkhatova, Rosalyn Díaz-Ortiz, Michael Soares, Kristin Bengtson Mendoza, Keisha Redd-Hannans, and Pedro Mendia-Landa, at City Hall.
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New Haven public school leaders pitched alders on doubling the district’s number of ESOL teachers and adding 18 more multilingual coaches — at a combined annual cost of $4.14 million — while mapping out classroom staffing needs at a time when more and more students enter city schools speaking a language other than English.
by | Feb 24, 2023 1:44 pm | Comments (4)
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Wilbur Cross Principal Matthew Brown on Friday.
One month and one day into his new job as principal of New Haven’s largest high school, Matthew Brown hopes to help make Wilbur Cross “the premier urban comprehensive high school in the state of Connecticut” — even as he, his colleagues, and the school’s 1,642 students face head on the challenges presented by pandemic-era disruptions to public education.
Continue reading ‘New Principal Sets Sights High For Wilbur Cross’
by | Feb 24, 2023 12:31 pm | Comments (4)
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Cross football captain Giovanni Melendez (right) with fellow student-athletes at Friday's presser.
Wilbur Cross athletic fields and track, now under construction.
Wilbur Cross student-athletes like football captain Giovanni Melendez looked forward to firmer synthetic-turf footing and a home-field setting to be proud of next season — at a press conference marking $4.35 million in mostly state-funded renovations to the East Rock school’s athletic complex.
Continue reading ‘Wilbur Cross Celebrates $4.35M Sports Complex Overhaul’