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Liliya Garipova |
Nov 11, 2022 11:10 am
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Playing, learning on Wilbur Cross's soccer field.
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Coach Miller.
As a lifelong student of o jogo bonito and a decades-long fixture of New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) athletics, Wilbur Cross High School head soccer coach Edgar Miller has a lot to say.
About perseverance. About natural talent and hard work. And about how soccer can teach one to overcome adversity — whether that be the ruts of Rice Field or the challenges of being a teenager.
A contingent of Wilbur Cross community members, including Board of Ed Student Representative Dave John Cruz-Bustamante, art teacher Melody Gallagher, and soccer captain Matteo Festa.
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A lightly muddy Blake Field on Friday afternoon.
Broken ankles. Used syringes. Mud-induced match cancellations. Low morale.
Those were just a few of the high school sports-related obstacles that Wilbur Cross coaches and students spoke out about having to surmount time and again, as they successfully urged alders to move forward with long-awaited upgrades to the East Rock Athletic Complex.
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Laura Glesby |
Nov 8, 2022 4:39 pm
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Enthusiastic kids, more enthusiastic politicians shouting "VOTE" Tuesday.
A new political polling group arrived at Lincoln Bassett School and discovered two preliminary findings: Newhallville is an overwhelmingly Democratic neighborhood — and “the floor is lava!”
Robinson leads a junior class book talk Tuesday ...
... about Stamped, a "present book" about race and America.
Should former presidents like Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson have their faces on America’s paper currency?
Sayvion Saley asked himself that question for the first time in English class as he and his Career High School classmates grappled with this country’s long, painful, sordid and complicated history of racism — with the help of a “present” book that seeks to set the record straight.
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Maya McFadden |
Nov 2, 2022 4:12 pm
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At Wednesday's protest.
Teachers, parents, and other staffers at the LULAC Head Start daycare center on James Street rallied outside of the school building Wednesday in protest of the recent firing of one of their colleagues.
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Maya McFadden |
Nov 1, 2022 4:02 pm
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Martinez School students Jeremiah and Eddie float test class-built boat.
Third graders Jeremiah and Eddie each held one side of a handmade aluminum foil boat and prepared to fill it with pirate gold, as part of a hands-on science challenge.
Chemistry teacher/professional arm wrestler Mike Selearis gives Principal Carolina some tips as he faces off against student champ Jordin during Wilbur Cross's weekly "Wellness Wednesday" programming.
Wilbur Cross High School Interim Principal Kermit Carolina announced over the PA that students had “30 more seconds to get to class.” Less than a minute later, he had his arm draped around a student’s shoulders.
“Mr. Carolina, this is the first time I got caught in the sweep today,” the student said. “It doesn’t have to be like this.”
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Laura Glesby |
Oct 28, 2022 9:29 am
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John Geanakoplos on Wilbur Cross' existing running track.
New fencing for Rice Field. New soccer equipment for Blake Field. A “multi-sport field and track” at Wilbur Cross.
Those upgrades and others might soon come to three East Rock sports fields if the Board of Alders approves accepting state and possible federal funding.
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Maya McFadden |
Oct 26, 2022 10:34 am
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Supt. Tracey: 181 school days required by the state.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) students may have to attend an extra day of classes this academic year to make up for a calendar mishap by district staff that saw one-too-few school days last year.
Board of Ed Prez Rivera: Zoom meetings = more accessible.
The Board of Education will continue to meet online only for the foreseeable future — as the board president defended virtual gatherings as more accessible to the public, while a fellow board member criticized the move as less accountable to teachers, students, parents, and staff.
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Maya McFadden |
Oct 25, 2022 11:30 am
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Supt. Tracey: Teachers' union has claimed "unfair labor practice."
The Board of Education voted to rescind its previous approval of $5,000 sign-on bonuses after the teachers’ union criticized the incentive plan as being crafted without the input of local educators.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 24, 2022 2:39 pm
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DeLauro on Monday: "This is the best part of the day."
In a “Developing Toddlers” classroom on Olive Street, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro got an up-close look at the severity of the child care staffing crisis — and at the joys and benefits of early education work.
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Maya McFadden |
Oct 24, 2022 8:51 am
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Erika Zelocuatecatl: "When we get together as diverse as we are, we come as a united chorus."
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Career students perform "Latino Moves" at Friday's fest.
The sounds of salsa, bachata and merengue filled Hill Regional Career High School alongside a host of Spanish-language pride as staff and students celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Oct 20, 2022 5:32 pm
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97 Whitney Ave.: Daycare center coming soon?
A former private school for gifted students may see second life as a Whitney Avenue daycare center — if the city’s zoning board approves a plan pitched by an Orange-based Hebrew day school.
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Maya McFadden |
Oct 19, 2022 10:45 am
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Brzezinski mixing in-person and digital teaching at ESUMS; more than 20,000 people follow his instructional videos online.
Tim Brzezinski welcomes smart phones and TikTok when he’s teaching — both to his New Haven middle-school math classroom and to thousands of people around the globe who follow his videos online.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 18, 2022 1:00 pm
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A Connecticut-wide coalition of child care providers and advocates has stepped up its call for state government to increase funding for an industry in “crisis” because the demand from families far exceeds the supply of educators.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 18, 2022 10:01 am
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173 Ivy St.: Now OK'd to be bought, or taken.
The Board of Alders signed off on the city’s plans to acquire two tax-delinquent vacant Newhallville lots for $150,000 — or by eminent domain, if necessary — in a bid to create more parking for the future adult education site.
(Opinion) Teachers need more zeroes at the end of their paychecks. Budding corporate leaders need more zeroes at the end of their pizza-flavored civic “donations.” Renters need fewer zeroes at the end of their monthly fees.
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Laura Glesby |
Oct 13, 2022 3:40 pm
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2021 graduation ceremony at Common Ground School.
An urban farming and ecology-centered local charter school has won the first-ever “Impact Community Engagement Award” from the national charter school development firm Building Hope.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Oct 12, 2022 2:30 pm
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Supt. Tracey: "Let us not present New Haven Public Schools in a negative light."
New hires will receive signing bonuses through the end of January in the public school district’s latest effort to recruit more teachers, paraprofessionals, social workers, and safety officers — amid an ongoing flood of staff resignations and publicly vented concerns about substandard working conditions in the city’s schools.
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Nora Grace-Flood and Thomas Breen |
Oct 12, 2022 11:14 am
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Kermit Carolina: Suiting back up, this time for Cross.
A public school leader who has made a career out of working with at-risk teens will step into the top role at Wilbur Cross High School on an interim basis to replace a school leader who is leaving his post six weeks into the academic year.