by | Mar 21, 2022 12:30 pm | Comments (2)
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Dominiq Oti, left, helps Nylee Williams with her signature.
In careful penmanship, 8‑year-old Nylee Williams signed her name, title, and “company” at the bottom of a page outlining her responsibilities in the planning process for a new community center in Newhallville.
by | Mar 18, 2022 3:11 pm | Comments (4)
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Lux Rosa outside Edgewood School at dismissal time: no Dalmations in sight.
There was a reported sighting of a famous fictional London heiress at a New Haven public school, amid an effort to help students and teachers take a day to chill out during the cruelest academic year in memory.
Continue reading ‘Cruella Deville Spotted On School Grounds’
by | Mar 17, 2022 3:29 pm | Comments (5)
Starting Monday, the city will no longer require its unvaccinated employees to undergo weekly Covid-19 testing.
Continue reading ‘City Scraps Unvaxxed-Employee Testing Mandate’
by | Mar 15, 2022 2:33 pm | Comments (11)
New Haven Public School’s (NHPS) will focus attention on its students’, educators’, and parents’ wellbeing for a “day of healing.”
by | Mar 15, 2022 1:28 pm | Comments (4)
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Demonstrators at Tuesday morning's rally.
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Childcare workers dance to "If You're Happy And You Know It."
Preschool teachers led a round of “If You’re Happy And You Know It” Tuesday morning — but this time it was adults, not kids, singing along. And they weren’t happy.
The 350 childcare workers and parents (and some young children) were gathered on the New Haven Green to make a point about a funding crisis affecting their classrooms, and to demand help from the state.
Continue reading ‘"Morning Without Childcare" Rally Draws 350’
by | Mar 15, 2022 9:03 am | Comments (3)
While the district searches for a new leader to run Hillhouse High School, retired principal Peggy Moore will temporarily take over.
Continue reading ‘Hillhouse Gets An Interim Principal; Pandemic-Related Labor Agreements OK'd’
by | Mar 10, 2022 1:32 pm | Comments (0)
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Foreign Language Teacher of the Year Trudy Anderson at WNHH FM.
Trudy Anderson can tell you four different ways to say pen — in Spanish alone.
by | Mar 9, 2022 10:06 am | Comments (44)
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12-year-old Sarah and friend Sloan at "Unmask our kids" rally.
Hamden Public Schools will lift their mask mandate on March 21.
That was the straightforward outcome of a rowdy three-hour meeting that began with a precautionary police presence, proceeded with raspberry-and-shouting arguments over race and politics and bullying, and concluded with cries of “Abuse of power!”
Continue reading ‘Culture War Comes To Hamden, As School Board Votes To Lift Mask Mandate’
by | Mar 4, 2022 1:03 pm | Comments (5)
A substitute teacher has been placed on leave pending the outcome of a sexual misconduct investigation.
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by | Mar 3, 2022 4:47 pm | Comments (0)
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Retired Judge Angela Robinson Thursday at Mauro-Sheridan.
Retired state judge Angela Robinson visited students at Mauro-Sheridan Thursday for the 24th consecutive year — partly in honor of a late educator who first brought her to the school, partly in honor of another woman poised to make history on the bench.
Continue reading ‘Judge Robinson Invokes Judge Jackson On 24th Mauro-Sheridan Rendezvous’
by | Mar 3, 2022 1:34 pm | Comments (5)
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Wintergreen school.
Hamden’s new administration has brought the town one step closer to closing a deal to sell Wintergreen magnet school — and putting $16 million of cash into the town’s pocket.
by | Mar 3, 2022 1:22 pm | Comments (2)
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New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) have seen an uptick in student expulsions while the issuing of in-school and out-school suspensions declines.
by | Mar 3, 2022 9:06 am | Comments (0)
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Katherine Van Tassel and Nina Laverty.
“I’m exhausted,” said Salvatore DeLucia of Wilbur Cross’s Lights Up Drama Club, “but I’m absolutely riding on a cloud. I’m ecstatic. Because these kids are back on stage. It feels like it’s been forever, and at the same time, it feels like it was just yesterday, it was 2019, and we were performing Sister Act.”
Continue reading ‘Lights (Back) Up: Wilbur Cross Students Return To The Stage’
by and | Mar 1, 2022 9:08 am | Comments (16)
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Anti-mask protesters crowd outside the BOE Monday night.
While most Connecticut schools drop mask mandates, New Haven’s and Hamden’s boards of education Monday night voted to keep their policies in place.
by | Feb 28, 2022 4:56 pm | Comments (4)
Gov. Ned Lamont Monday at a general Q&A with reporters following an international-trade presser, held at New Haven's DISTRICT NHV offices of Connecticut Innovations.
Ned Lamont would rather cut property taxes than sales taxes. And he’d rather let New Haven’s school district makes its own decision about mask-wearing.
Continue reading ‘Lamont: I Won't Pull A DeSantis On New Haven’
by | Feb 28, 2022 12:21 pm | Comments (2)
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Georgia Goldburn: "Stunned and appalled" at governor's budget.
Early childhood centers are warning of a crisis that could lead to mass closures and skyrocketing fees, if the government doesn’t act soon.
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by | Feb 23, 2022 9:22 am | Comments (8)
Alder Decker: LLC sunshine law will help keep renters safe.
Shooters, slackers, slumlords, and students better watch out, if four new measures passed Tuesday night accomplish their aims.
by | Feb 21, 2022 8:44 am | Comments (23)
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Leslie Blatteau.
Teachers union President Leslie Blatteau delivered these remarks during a Board of Education public comment period.
In one month, we will arrive at the two-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic permanently impacting our school system, our community, and the way we teach and learn. It is clear that so much has changed. Ask anyone who is working in our schools, and they will tell you: the unprecedented exhaustion and anxiety, and the erosion of trust that is central to the health of any organization, are causing people to question why they show up to school everyday.
Continue reading ‘2 Years Into Pandemic, We Need To Move Forward Together’
by | Feb 18, 2022 1:39 pm | Comments (26)
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Computer work in class, now monitored ...
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... thanks to NHPS's adoption of GoGuardian.
Watching YouTube or surfing the Web during class? Better watch out: New Haven public school teachers can now look at what students are up to on their computers when they should be doing school work, thanks to a recently adopted classroom online surveillance program primed for a three-year run.
by | Feb 18, 2022 10:41 am | Comments (1)
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Marquelle Middleton is working hard these days to help parents find “the right four-year fit” as the sometimes confusing, sometimes contentious annual school choice lottery gets underway.
Continue reading ‘Parents Get Help Navigating This Year's School Choice Lottery’
by | Feb 17, 2022 3:36 pm | Comments (1)
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DuBois-Walton with Harris Tucker School students at a Newhallville ward committee meeting.
“Equity” and “excellence” are about to get an update.
Those two words summarized the mission of a five-year plan to guide Connecticut’s schools. The State Board of Education drafted and began undertaking the plan five years ago.
Now the board is crafting a new five-year plan. It has a new chair to guide that process: New Haven’s Karen DuBois-Walton.
by | Feb 17, 2022 2:27 pm | Comments (4)
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Santiago with retired New Haven Board of Alders President and mayoral Chief of Staff Tomas Reyes at Wednesday night's fundraiser.
Latino educators and activists gathered to support a quest to make history — by electing Connecticut’s first Latino secretary of the state.
by | Feb 16, 2022 1:03 pm | Comments (0)
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Inside Adult Ed at 540 Ella T. Grasso Blvd.
The city’s Adult Ed program is likely staying put in its rundown Ella T. Grasso Boulevard building through 2025 — as alders reluctantly advanced a renewed lease that would see rent jump by tens of thousands of dollars each year, and that calls on the new landlord to repair an old HVAC system, leaky ceilings, and damaged carpeting.
Continue reading ‘Controversial Adult Ed Lease Deal Advances’
by | Feb 15, 2022 4:22 pm | Comments (18)
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Books & Co.'s suggestion: Community first.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité? More like, community, diversity, & … femininity?
Those are some of the values Hamden residents say define their town — and suggest buzzwords the town may use to market itself to future residents and business owners.
by | Feb 15, 2022 4:18 pm | Comments (5)
The 2022-23 budget proposal break down.
The Board of Education is proposing an increased budget of 4.67 percent for the 2022 – 2023 school year.