by | Aug 30, 2022 8:46 am | Comments (1)
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Samod Rankins, Karl Jacobson, Regina Rush-Kittle, Apostle Thelma Brown, Pastor Steele, and Daniel Hunt.
Local leaders primarily involved in public safety efforts were recognized as lifetime achievers in community service by a faith-based university — and the nation’s president.
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by | Aug 29, 2022 2:03 pm | Comments (3)
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State Sen. Gary Winfield welcomes back Obama students.
The song “Happy” by Pharrell played on a speaker as students walked past a cheering crowd, balloons, and a rainbow door fringe at 8 a.m. Monday for the start of a hope-filled new academic year at Barack Obama Magnet and 43 other city public schools.
by | Aug 26, 2022 1:50 pm | Comments (2)
A sample school wall poster.
When Hamden students step out of summer break and back into the classroom next week, they’ll be starting the school year in-person and unmasked for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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by | Aug 25, 2022 10:20 am | Comments (5)
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Phara Dorleans: "I'm not giving up on the kids."
A city celebration of educators and school staff reminded Mauro-Sheridan Magnet School French teacher Phara Dorleans of the moments that have kept her in the profession for seven years and counting.
At the top of that list: When her then-kindergarten student cried all weekend to her father, “I want to go to school to see mademoiselle. I miss her!”
by | Aug 25, 2022 9:33 am | Comments (1)
"Village" students pick up back-to-school supplies on Wednesday.
As Felix Feliciano picked up a pair of Jordan Six Rings Motorsports sneakers Wednesday night, the 14-year-old knew that, as he walks into his first class of freshman year of high school next week, he’ll be doing so step in step with the support system he’s found this summer.
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by | Aug 24, 2022 6:30 pm | Comments (15)
U.S. Rep. DeLauro on Wednesday.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro threw her support on Wednesday behind President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt for certain borrowers.
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by | Aug 24, 2022 5:30 pm | Comments (24)
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Supt. Tracey on Monday: "Now is the right juncture to take my departure."
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) Superintendent Iline Tracey announced on Wednesday that she will retire at the end of the upcoming school year.
by | Aug 23, 2022 1:35 pm | Comments (4)
Beecher's rental "chiller," on site on Tuesday.
Beecher School’s permanent air-conditioning system is still busted, and won’t be replaced for several more months.
But a rental “chiller” is being installed this week — and classes should be able to take place as planned starting with next Monday’s beginning of the new school year.
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by | Aug 23, 2022 1:00 pm | Comments (24)
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Supt. Tracey at Monday's press conference.
For the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, New Haven public school students will not have to wear face masks when they return to the classroom this academic year.
by | Aug 23, 2022 9:44 am | Comments (3)
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Tamya celebrates new back-to-school hairstyle on Middletown Ave ...
... as Tanya Solomon's grandsons pick up books on Valley St. Monday.
Tamia Massey usually spends more than $200 getting her two daughters’ hair braided at the start of every back-to-school season.
This year was different — thanks to one of a host of community-led events focused on helping families cut costs as students prepare to return to the classroom.
by | Aug 22, 2022 12:25 pm | Comments (12)
388 Orange St., now owned by ACES.
A North Haven-based regional arts education organization has purchased a two-and-a-half story law office building on Orange Street for $975,000, with plans to convert that site into school “programmatic” spaces after the current tenant’s lease runs out next year.
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by | Aug 19, 2022 11:31 am | Comments (4)
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Tiffany Woods and Ava Newton at Bowen Field back-to-school fair: "I can't wait to learn who I am."
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New Haven Reads offers books for families to grow home libraries.
Ava Newton joined hundreds of fellow students in getting a head start on the new academic year — and lining up ways to keep busy after school.
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by | Aug 17, 2022 3:14 pm | Comments (27)
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Iline Tracey testifies: New Haven kids will succeed.
“When I hear those numbers, it makes me cringe,” Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers told Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey.
Speaking at a public hearing, she was referring to New Haven Public Schools’ test scores from the past year, which officials have referred to as a reading and math “crisis.”
“Our students are resilient,” Tracey responded, and they need “indestructible hope.”
by | Aug 11, 2022 1:44 pm | Comments (29)
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Farewell, flicks: Middletown Ave.'s Ciné 4, now shuttered.
Start the early ed: Friends Center's Schiavone, who plans to convert cinema into childcare campus.
The lights are off and the popcorn’s all gone from a decades-old independent movie theater on Middletown Avenue — which new nonprofit owners aim to convert to a bustling campus for affordable early childhood education.
by | Aug 10, 2022 2:20 pm | Comments (7)
Keisha Redd-Hannans.
The school district has chosen New Haven native Keisha Redd Hannans, who has been with the district for 14 years, as the replacement for departing assistant superintendent Ivelise Velazquez.
by | Aug 9, 2022 1:35 pm | Comments (31)
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Abdussabur: We came through during Covid.
The Board of Education voted to hire a new cleaning contractor for its schools this coming year, ditching a local Black-owned firm in favor of a Massachusetts-based company.
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by | Aug 8, 2022 3:01 pm | Comments (3)
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Atkinson with raffle winner Danny.
Tanaya Atkinson braved the heat -– and not the basketball team -– to give back to New Haven kids getting ready to return to school.
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Ivelise Velazquez.
At a time of controversy over how New Haven is or isn’t teaching kids to read, the top official directly responsible is leaving the school district.
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by | Aug 5, 2022 3:25 pm | Comments (5)
Politicians play games. Kids pay the price.
by | Aug 3, 2022 5:27 pm | Comments (1)
Just a month after graduating from Hamden High School, Elias Hnini, a soccer player “with a heart of gold,” died in a car crash on Orchard Street.
by | Aug 3, 2022 5:10 pm | Comments (35)
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Rev Kimber: New leadership needed. Mayor Elicker: More funding needed.
New Haven needs a new plan — and new leadership — in order to improve abysmal student reading levels.
The Greater New Haven Clergy Association issued that plea Wednesday during a press conference at which Newhallville pastors laid into the Board of Education, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) administrators, and the mayor after a recent report showed that 84 percent of third-graders are reading below grade level.
by | Aug 3, 2022 11:55 am | Comments (3)
The state plans to spend $35 million of federal pandemic-relief aid over the next three years on tuition assistance, faculty recruitment, and college-employer partnerships to build up the number of nurses and social workers working in Connecticut.
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by | Aug 2, 2022 5:55 pm | Comments (2)
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Board member Mariam Khan: Let's still talk about better bus schedules.
Hamden’s Legislative Council has agreed to transfer $585,000 to the Board of Education (BOE) in order to fund school bus rides this September — reversing a previous decision that had sparked a now-shelved plan to change bus schedules.
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by | Aug 1, 2022 9:08 am | Comments (1)
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Summer Artspace Program students, instructors, and TAs.
Artspace New Haven celebrated the culmination of the free Summer Artspace Program (SAP) with a community exhibition highlighting the work of six high school artists.
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by | Jul 29, 2022 9:26 am | Comments (1)
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Coded campfire fireflies.
A summer Coding Camp has been teaching kids to make the game instead of playing it.