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.
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Audrey Tyson, Alder Sarah Miller, and Gov. Lamont talk education at Brazi's during one of the governor's New Haven stops Wednesday.
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Lamont in radio studio with hosts Jose Candelario and Norma Rodriguez-Reyes, and campaign Deputy Political Diretor Gabriela Koc.
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Lamont with Erik Clemons at ConnCORP: Talk to Looney.
Erik Clemons took advantage of a 20-minute audience with Gov. Ned Lamont to make a multimillion-dollar pitch — for bond money to help revive the commercial heart of New Haven’s Black community.
by | Jul 27, 2022 12:46 pm | Comments (3)
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New year, old schedule: Dismissal at Dunbar Hill School.
Never mind.
Hamden students will start school at the same time as last year.
After two months of hand wringing and debate concerning how to rearrange student busing schedules in a last-minute move to stay within the lines of a level budget, the Board of Education voted Tuesday night to keep school start and dismissal times the same as last year — in hopes that the town will indeed steer extra funding their way.
by and | Jul 26, 2022 11:40 am | Comments (41)
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Upping her game after school: Serenity Smith with tutor Charlene Cua at New Haven Reads.
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Newly released numbers show up to 84 percent of third-graders reading below grade level and district-wide numbers that officials called an “emergency” — while disagreeing about who should fix it and how.
by | Jul 25, 2022 12:16 pm | Comments (7)
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State Sen. Gary Winfield at Newhallville stop-violence fair.
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John Carlson, fellow GOP candidate Eric Mastroianni at WNHH FM.
To Gary Winfield, the job of state legislator is akin to a long-distance runner. He sees the finish line in the distance: Better public education. Humane prisons. Fairer policing. The legislator gets closer every year, step by step, methodically making gains along the way, keeping the ultimate goal in mind.
That record of veteran service is a reason the Newhallville Democrat gave for why he’s running this year for a sixth term as a state senator representing New Haven and West Haven.
That’s a reason John Carlson, a Hill Republican, gave for why he’s challenging Winfield this year for the 10th State Senate District seat: New Haven Democrats have been in power too long, without producing the right results, he argued.
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by | Jul 25, 2022 8:52 am | Comments (1)
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"This is the best!": Yang with first graders at Martinez School.
Summer break could not keep Mandarin teacher Ruwen Yang out of the classroom and away from teaching young students her beloved first language.
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by | Jul 25, 2022 8:51 am | Comments (2)
Scholarship recipients Marie Cisse, Ahmad Al Zouabi, Alyssa Findlay, Juan Boone.
Cisse, who hopes to teach low-income kids about STEM in the future.
Marie Cisse, who just graduated from Amistad High and is on her way to Tufts, took a LEAP forward on her journey to study mechanical engineering and help other low-income kids like her get exposed to STEM education earlier in their lives.
by | Jul 24, 2022 11:52 am | Comments (2)
The Wheel Good Paddlers, led by drummer Julia Wilson and captain John Pescatore, in the final race.
The Tuff Girls 1, led by drummer Livia Doran and captain Christa Doran.
It was the final race of the day, and the Tuff Girls were just a few strokes behind the Wheel Good Paddlers, who were back to defend their title, this year with the help of New Haven Public School (NHPS) students.
Continue reading ‘Tuff Girls Take On Wheel Good Paddlers As Dragon Boat Regatta Returns’
by | Jul 21, 2022 12:55 pm | Comments (8)
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State Rep. Toni Walker and Principal Michelle Bonora at Wednesday night's community meeting. Below: The former state social services building.
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After nearly a decade of vacancy, the former state social-services building on Bassett Street might soon take on new life — not as an employee-owned laundry, but as an adult education center.
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by | Jul 20, 2022 5:18 pm | Comments (4)
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Jill Biden at Albertus Wednesday.
First Lady Jill Biden came to New Haven Wednesday and saw some hope on the “Horizon” for helping kids catch up after falling behind academically during the pandemic.
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by | Jul 19, 2022 3:37 pm | Comments (13)
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Ex-middle school, site of planned "art district"-community center.
Bookshelves, diapers, Covid-19 tests, ellipticals, chicken dinners, alternative education classrooms and paint palettes could all be available to all Hamden residents at a one-stop, no-charge shop — if a plan to build a brand new, Dixwell Q House-style community center in Southern Hamden moves forward.
by | Jul 19, 2022 2:48 pm | Comments (5)
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“This is your park,” Gemma Joseph Lumpkin of the New Haven Public Schools reminded middle schoolers gathered Tuesday in Edgerton Park, over and over again.
by | Jul 18, 2022 3:16 pm | Comments (7)
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Dunbar Hill students line up to catch the bus on the first day of school.
Hamden’s Board of Education is revisiting a plan to change school start times — with hopes that families will weigh in on one of the district’s most “daunting” decisions yet.
by | Jul 18, 2022 1:00 pm | Comments (6)
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C U @HBCU: Sunday's send-off.
Xavier Mom. Spel-Bound. HBCU Strong Hampton University. Aggie Dad. hbcu-ish. Morgan. Alumni North Carolina A&T State University.
Participants donned T‑shirts with those logos Sunday at a send-off celebration for 53 students headed for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
by | Jul 13, 2022 9:39 am | Comments (7)
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New Super Gary Highsmith: Focusing deputies on curriculum.
In his first move as Hamden’s next superintendent of schools, Gary Highsmith is planning a reorganization of administrative responsibilities — in order to allocate more resources towards teaching and learning and heighten internal collaboration.
Continue reading ‘Highsmith Looks To Raise Academic Standards’
by | Jul 12, 2022 1:22 pm | Comments (2)
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New student reps on the board of ed: Mark Hu and Ishnan Khan.
After prevailing in a competition with over 30 classmates vying to represent Hamden schools as student members of the Board of Education, 16-year-olds Ishnan Khan and Mark Hu said they plan to use their new platform to increase the presence of student voice in community decision-making and to set a higher standard for transparency and inclusion across the board.
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by | Jun 30, 2022 1:33 pm | Comments (10)
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A “structured literacy”-focused experiment helped increased elementary reading scores. Now New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) will offer similar programing this summer and possibly next fall.
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by | Jun 28, 2022 2:46 pm | Comments (3)
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Lauren Sepulveda teaches social studies class in 2019 hours after receiving the Milken Educator Award.
Veteran Clinton Avenue School teacher Lauren Sepulveda will leave her “home” to become the next assistant principal of John S. Martinez School.
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by | Jun 28, 2022 9:56 am | Comments (5)
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Clockwise from top left: Oscaima "Patty" Berrios, Kate Liphart, Joel LeChance, and Maria Solomon at Monday's drive.
New blood at the city’s teachers union arranged to draw blood from educators — along with ideas for how to pump new life into the organization and its headquarters.
by | Jun 27, 2022 11:16 pm | Comments (10)
Gary Highsmith, right, with past student and current BOE member Walter Morton — who recalled Highsmith as his early style icon.
Hamden has selected an internal hire with New Haven roots to serve as the town’s next superintendent of schools.
by | Jun 23, 2022 2:42 pm | Comments (18)
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Brackeen: Where is the school district?
New Haven got advice about addressing failing reading scores from three cities that are succeeding at the task — at a public hearing skipped by New Haven school officials responsible for tackling the crisis.
by | Jun 23, 2022 11:05 am | Comments (1)
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Xavier Rawlings poses for reporter ...
... after taking selfie onstage at Wednesday evening graduation.
Weeks before her class was to graduate from Hamden High, Xavier Rawlings was without a home and struggling to keep up with school work. With the help of teachers, she made it through a credit recovery program during the final days of June — and took a ceremonial selfie, diploma in hand, on a commencement stage with hundreds of cheering supporters behind her.
by | Jun 21, 2022 3:59 pm | Comments (1)
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Bassett's Batman Bunch at graduation Tuesday.
A bat signal was sent from Lincoln-Bassett Community School — and summoned some sixth-grade superheroes to the stage.
by | Jun 17, 2022 5:34 pm | Comments (2)
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Nyasia Davis and Daniya Cox at graduation Friday: We did it for Mooka.
Davis' cap Friday picturing her father and best friend Mooka, who died in a car crash senior year.
She didn’t live to attend in person, but Camryn “Mooka” Gayle was there in spirit Friday to graduate along with her classmates from Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School.
Continue reading ‘Mooka's Memory Makes Graduation Bittersweet’