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Supt. Negrón (right), with schools CFO Hannans: “I don’t see it as a cushion.”
Is a $3 million budget-balancing fund for New Haven Public Schools a “cushion” or a “lifeline”?
It depends on who’s asked.
by | Oct 28, 2024 10:13 am | Comments (4)
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Principal Foreman: On a mission to "Transform Troup."
As more than 90 percent of Troup School’s students have been showing up for classes so far this year, Troup School Principal Eugene Foreman showed up to a Morris Cove gala — to be recognized for helping turn around the reputation of a state-designated “turnaround” school.
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by | Oct 25, 2024 12:57 pm | Comments (5)
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Ex-operation chief's name, image, "call 911" warning, as pictured at 54 Meadow on Oct. 9.
Earlier this month, a sign posted behind the front desk of the public school district’s central office building included the message “Call 911” alongside the name and picture of now-former New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) Chief Operating Officer (COO) Thomas Lamb.
That sign’s now gone — but questions remain as to why it was put up in the first place.
by | Oct 25, 2024 10:51 am | Comments (29)
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Supt. Negrón (center): School security down from 100 in 2010, to 56 today.
The number of security guards in city public schools is down 44 percent in more than a decade, resulting in a shortage that sometimes forces the district to shuffle officers around to multiple schools over the course of a single day.
by | Oct 24, 2024 4:06 pm | Comments (2)
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188 Bassett, all cleared for Adult Ed renovations.
The Elicker administration won a key city approval for the planned relocation of Adult Ed from the Hill to Newhallville, as the City Plan Commission signed off on “gut” renovations of a long-vacant Bassett Street building.
by | Oct 21, 2024 1:01 pm | Comments (6)
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NHPS' total Covid-relief allocations over the past four years.
Snapshots of new programming at Edgewood thanks to American Rescue Plan dollars.
An outdoor garden and learning space, college courses at Columbia University, and two full-time academic tutors were just a few of the school-boosting services made possible at three of New Haven’s public schools thanks to $126 million in one-time, now-spent federal pandemic-relief funding.
by | Oct 18, 2024 4:17 pm | Comments (8)
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Ann Moore: Eager to learn sign language alongside the babies in her new classroom.
Coming soon to a theater near you is a classroom of babies learning ASL alongside their ABCs.
That is, a former theater — the old Cine 4 movie theater at 25 Flint St., which on Monday will reopen as four infant-and-toddler classrooms as well as a new administrative hub for Friends Center for Children.
by | Oct 17, 2024 11:55 am | Comments (20)
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Barnard Principal Stephanie Skiba shows off a Yondr pouch, where the cellphone goes.
All New Haven public elementary and middle school students will have to stow their phones in magnetically sealed “Yondr” pouches starting in January — per a new districtwide policy designed to minimize pocket-buzzing distractions by creating cellphone-free learning environments.
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by | Oct 16, 2024 3:08 pm | Comments (7)
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Students Destiny Lugo and Makayla Kidd with CT Teacher of the Year Julia Miller.
“She lets her guard down with us. She’s human with us,” Metropolitan Business Academy Senior Makayla Kidd told a room full of students, educators, and city leaders.
Kidd was talking about her civics teacher, Julia Miller — who is now Connecticut’s Teacher of the Year.
by | Oct 16, 2024 2:20 pm | Comments (5)
Supt. Madeline Negrón (right): No comment on investigation, departure of Tom Lamb.
A four-month investigation into the school district’s chief of operations found that none of the allegations of wrongdoing were substantiated.
What those allegations were? The superintendent won’t say.
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by | Oct 14, 2024 4:10 pm | Comments (26)
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Tom Lamb, resigned as of Oct. 3.
More than four months after being placed on paid administrative leave with no explanation offered by the district, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) Chief Operating Officer (COO) Tom Lamb has resigned.
by | Oct 14, 2024 12:18 pm | Comments (1)
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Shayel Rodriguez (center) with her parents at Hispanic Heritage Month celebration.
On the lookout, at Cross.
Wilbur Cross tenth grader Shayel Rodriguez gathered with 12 other student dancers in the school’s gymnasium to perform Puerto Rican bomba, Colombian cumbia, and Brazilian samba – to help celebrate the cultural heritage of the school’s diverse and growing Hispanic population.
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by | Oct 11, 2024 1:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Godslove Ampah (right), with math teacher Tonya Howard: "Whenever I look at an equation, I just want to use my brain to figure it out."
Time to math! The standard algorithm way, at Troup.
Troup fifth-grader Godslove Ampah used to struggle most with math, back when she was still living in her home country of Ghana.
Now, three years later, that’s completely changed — and Godslove finds multiplication challenges fun, thanks to the help of a local teacher working to make sure students know more than one way to solve a problem.
by | Oct 10, 2024 12:49 pm | Comments (6)
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Edgewood Principal Nicholas Perrone, making dream catchers with students as part of the ARPA-funded ECHO program.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has met its first of two key deadlines for spending, and not having to give back, $123 million in one-time federal pandemic-relief funds.
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by | Oct 9, 2024 8:43 am | Comments (2)
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The inaugural 15-person BioCity cohort, excited to get behind the bench.
Fifteen public school students are now able to earn college credits by heading to one of the city’s newest labs — to witness and participate in cutting-edge research happening right here in New Haven.
by | Oct 8, 2024 8:30 am | Comments (16)
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Stacey Abrams (right), and interlocutor Emily Bazelon: "If you’re interested in peoples’ lives being better, that’s politics.”
State government is by far the least understood in our system, and in many ways the most important to get right if we want to achieve the goals of democracy.
Former Georgia state rep and gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams made those remarks, by turns trenchant yet largely apolitical, at the Hopkins School Monday afternoon before no fewer than 1,200 enthusiastic, applauding young people.
by | Oct 3, 2024 9:46 pm | Comments (44)
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Mayor Elicker: The city's "financial situation is on stronger footing than it has been in many, many years."
Increased state aid, building permit revenue, and savings due to staff vacancies helped the city end last fiscal year with a $16 million budget surplus — a portion of which the mayor now plans to direct towards New Haven’s public schools.
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by | Oct 1, 2024 11:18 am | Comments (1)
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... for close friend Evyana Devine Vidro, at a new memorial at Wilbur Cross.
Cherry blossoms and rays of sunshine came to life and mind as Wilbur Cross students gathered to honor their late classmate, 15-year-old Evyana Devine Vidro.
by | Sep 30, 2024 3:32 pm | Comments (7)
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Charlene Neal-Palmer: "Brennan-Rogers needs money."
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Rally outside Brennan-Rogers calls for more state funding for public schools.
When Brennan-Rogers sixth-grade teacher Charlene Neal-Palmer graduated from the AFL-CIO Labor Leadership Academy and saw U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, she walked right up to him. Before she could even give him her name, she said, “Brennan-Rogers needs money.”
She clarified quickly: “The whole NHPS needs money.”
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by | Sep 30, 2024 12:51 pm | Comments (16)
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School Psychologist Yesenia Garcia calls for smaller class sizes at Monday's rally.
Fair Haven School has just one social worker, one psychologist, and one school counselor — to support over 800 students.
At one of three rallies that took place across the city’s public school district Monday morning, Mayor Justin Elicker said that the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) system needs an additional $35 million in order to fund a “reasonable” ratio of one social worker per 250 students.
Elicker offered that assessment as 50 educators, students, and allies gathered outside the Grand Avenue public school to call for that funding.
by | Sep 27, 2024 1:38 pm | Comments (33)
Cross girls' locker room, photo courtesy of Cross counselor Mia Comulada Breuler.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) leaders said the district needs 33 more tradesmen to just begin working towards addressing its thousands of building-disrepair work orders — while the head of the school system’s custodial union called for more in-house hiring, and less private contracting.
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by | Sep 26, 2024 12:59 pm | Comments (12)
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Michael Carter: CAO Act II looming?
Four days before his public school district operations consultant contract is set to expire, Mike Carter is still “undecided” as to whether or not to stay in the post — or, potentially, return to his former top City Hall job.
by | Sep 25, 2024 10:00 am | Comments (40)
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Cross staffers speak out (clockwise from top left): Brian Grindrod, Eric Teichman, Kathryn Dadio, Dario Sulzman, Mia Comulada Breuler, and Mark CoFrancesco.
Nearly 20 Wilbur Cross educators, parents, and students showed up to the latest Board of Education meeting to give the city’s public school district a failing grade for unsafe, unhealthy, and unsightly building conditions at New Haven’s largest high school.
by | Sep 25, 2024 9:32 am | Comments (1)
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Frankie Roman, Casey Gargano, and Patricia Melton at New Haven Promise.
Like the young people it helps develop into successful college students and adults, New Haven Promise has entered its teens full of growth of possibility.
by | Sep 20, 2024 3:27 pm | Comments (10)
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Owen Agba, Grace Sherman, and Nathaly Ynoa Martinez: No phones, no problems.
When Barnard School eighth-graders Grace Sherman and Nathaly Ynoa Martinez and Owen Agba arrived at school Friday morning, they put their smartphones in magnetically sealed pouches — which they likely wouldn’t unlock until the end of the day.
After participating in a year-long experiment in phone-free classrooms, they looked forward to another day of in-person learning and socializing with friends, unmired by the distractions of TikTok and Instagram. Meanwhile, their governor and one of their U.S. senators popped into their school to learn about how that’s all going.