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The Board of Education (BOE) has approved a renewed lease for the Adult and Continuing Education Center that will see the rent rise tens of thousands of dollars a year in a rundown space.
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Firefighters attend to business at the front of Troup Monday …
… while students enjoy an outdoor rest-of-the-day behind the building.
Augusta Lewis Troup students will spend Tuesday at the Hillhouse Fieldhouse, not at their regular Edgewood Avenue school, after a fire left smoke damage throughout the building.
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by | Nov 8, 2021 3:31 pm | Comments (14)
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Members of Cicarella/DeLucia slate at Goodfellas campaign kick-off.
Dave Cicarella, president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, is looking to get re-elected next month with a slate of educators promising strength in continuity and experience to accomplish unfinished goals.
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Sixth-grader Samantha Braren getting her Covid-19 vaccine.
This story was submitted by Elm City Montessori seventh-graders Lillian Price & Winter Szarabajka.
Elm City Montessori School (ECMS) Friday hosted one of the first Covid-19 vaccine clinics for children between the ages of 5 and 11. Many families with young children showed up from around New Haven, particularly Westville, hoping to receive their first dose of the vaccine.
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by | Nov 5, 2021 2:16 pm | Comments (6)
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The FirstView App.
As parents and students have adjusted getting back into the routine of in-person learning this year, bus driver shortages and delays have been causing confusion and disruption.
A new app unveiled Friday can help.
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by | Nov 3, 2021 2:20 pm | Comments (14)
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Lamont fields questions Wednesday on Scranton Street.
Many Democrats nationwide woke up fretting Wednesday about their prospects in next year’s elections. But not Connecticut’s top Democrat expected to seek reelection, Gov. Ned Lamont.
by | Oct 29, 2021 3:17 pm | Comments (1)
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Chief Dominguez reads aloud Friday at Lulac Center.
A new tradition began at Lulac Head Start’s three locations Friday honoring the trailblazing early-childhood educator Sandra “Sandy” Malmquist.
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by | Oct 29, 2021 9:44 am | Comments (1)
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Rya’s Joan Miro-inspired art at right.
Rya and mom Caryl Williams.
Edgewood School seventh-grader Rya imagined a green cat, a purple moon, and yellow eyeball, then put a marker to paper.
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2020: It was the best of times and the worst of times. If there had to be a rewrite of the Charles Dickens classic, it could revolve around our current times. COVID-19 struck like an unexpected tsunami. As devastating as the virus still is, during its early stages, it — for just a moment — made us all take a moratorium and stop and be still. Maybe we had to realize just how vulnerable we are and, like dust in the wind, can be gone at any given moment. That we should appreciate the sand in our hourglass and love more and not value the things that are value-less. Perhaps this lesson is far from over.
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by | Oct 28, 2021 3:05 pm | Comments (6)
Will Vasquez.
The state police Thursday afternoon identified the 14-year-old High School Community sophomore who was shot to death earlier this week as Will Vasquez.
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by | Oct 26, 2021 12:48 pm | Comments (8)
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Public schools officials are scrambling to reconfigure cafeteria menus due to nationwide food shortages and price increases.
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by | Oct 25, 2021 1:03 pm | Comments (5)
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Cross Principal Edith Johnson, Jamison Scott, Rosa DeLauro, Iline Tracey, Justin Elicker, Ivelise Velazquez.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) leaders have their fingers crossed that a U.S. House-passed bill promising to create a college-credited manufacturing program for local high schoolers will also pass the Senate next month.
by | Oct 21, 2021 10:34 am | Comments (2)
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Troup first-graders deliver verdict on the taste of fresh veggie as part of a Common Ground schoolyards initiative.
Troup elementary students this week picked lettuce and parsley they grew and found out how great they taste in a tortilla snack.
by | Oct 20, 2021 8:22 am | Comments (5)
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Parents debrief after storming out of Tuesday evening meeting.
Eli Whitney Technical High School’s response to complaints of sexual harassment and alleged rape have students and parents up in arms.
The past two days have seen a 100-student walkout and a charged parent-principal confrontation over the issue.
Continue reading ‘Sex-Violence Allegations Rock Eli Whitney’
by | Oct 19, 2021 9:13 pm | Comments (59)
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Mayor Elicker and John Carlson at Tuesday’s debate.
Mayoral candidates sparred over the environment and education, in a debate that took place two weeks before New Haven’s general municipal election.
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by | Oct 19, 2021 12:47 pm | Comments (2)
Three Lincoln-Bassett School students were treated for injuries, one in the hospital, after a pit bull attacked them on the playground.
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Mom Janina Tauro at Friday’s protest outside Rascals.
A toddler was barred from a gym preschool program for wearing a Black Lives Matter T‑shirt — leading roughly 50 adults and kids to return two days later in protest. All wearing shirts with the same message.
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by | Oct 13, 2021 10:36 am | Comments (2)
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Volunteers at work Tuesday.
A new community garden sprouted in four hours at Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Learning School, with help from students at the other end of New Haven’s public school age range.
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A student brought a bb gun to Bishop Woods Architecture and Design Magnet School Thursday morning.
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Dwight Montessori Class of 2017 on the graduation march.
The Dwight neighborhood is primed to create 46 pre-school slots for infants and toddlers and 20 full-time jobs thanks to a $600,000 federal grant.
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Revitalized classroom libraries. Brand new 3D printers. Enhanced automotive and construction career programs. New part-time tutors.
Those are among the suggested plans for new state money coming in to town to boost four “low-performance” schools.
by | Oct 6, 2021 4:18 pm | Comments (11)
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Cecilie Boaheng: Everyone’s terrified.
One day after police arrested a student for carrying a loaded handgun in his backpack on school grounds, Hamden High students said they felt unsafe — and unsupported.
by | Oct 6, 2021 1:27 pm | Comments (6)
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PM pick-up at FAME (formerly Columbus School) .
New Haven’s public schools are struggling to get drivers to fill all 301 daily bus runs.
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by | Oct 1, 2021 1:59 pm | Comments (3)
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Back home: Monica Johnson helps Rielynn with math worksheet.
During her second week of her first year of high school, Lana Al Mallak was pulled out of her history class and sent home for 10 days. No live classroom instruction. No after-school club meetings.
Lana left the school in tears.
“I understood why, but I just didn’t want to miss my second week of school,” she said.
by | Oct 1, 2021 12:21 pm | Comments (5)
A student was admitted to the hospital for psychiatric evaluation after being discovered with a “noose fashioned with a shoestring” inside a Nathan Hale School bathroom.
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