by | Sep 30, 2021 9:12 am | Comments (3)
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King/Robinson middle school STEM teacher Jonathan Hill gets vaccinated at Wilbur Cross in March.
Teachers who refuse to get vaccinated or don’t keep up with weekly testing deadlines will not be allowed on school premises until they comply — and could potentially be fired.
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by | Sep 30, 2021 7:54 am | Comments (0)
Running a school district is not as simple as A‑B-C, and with the Delta variant and HVAC issues, it’s going to take collaboration from all sides to make education work.
That was the lesson learned from Fran Rabinowitz, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS), when she came on “The Municipal Voice,” a co-production of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) and WNHH 103.5 FM.
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by | Sep 29, 2021 9:43 am | Comments (3)
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“Touching” the wind at Edgewood School Monday.
With arms spread wide, a class of kindergarteners felt a light fall breeze tickle their faces and dance through their hair — in the latest example of in-person learning during the ongoing pandemic.
by | Sep 28, 2021 9:05 am | Comments (0)
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Monday’s virtual Board of Education meeting.
Part-time workers at New Haven Public Schools will now make a minimum of $14 per hour, thanks to a Monday evening vote by the city’s Board of Education.
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by | Sep 27, 2021 4:10 pm | Comments (6)
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Eddie Blue talks about cutting his hours to care for his kids — who thrived in Pre-K — during the pandemic.
Selena Calderon has “lost a few jobs” trying to land an early childcare slot for her 1‑year-old.
She told two U.S. senators about that in the hope that they can help fix the problem on a national scale.
by | Sep 24, 2021 9:44 am | Comments (4)
Inductees Andrew Wolf, Heidi Gold Dworkin, Sly Williams, Vanessa Avery, Edwina Qualls.
One nominee made it to the NBA. Another made it to Iraq and Afghanistan, as a senior Army nurse. Another authored children’s science books. Another became the city’s arts director.
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by | Sep 22, 2021 3:37 pm | Comments (2)
A shooting outside Lincoln-Bassett School sent students and teachers into lockdown Wednesday morning. No one was injured, and the school was reopened just after noon.
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by | Sep 20, 2021 1:27 pm | Comments (0)
Officials at schools, health care facilities, and child care centers now have the details about how the state expects them to carry out the mandate that employees either get vaccinated for Covid-19 or qualify for and then comply with the terms of an exemption.
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by | Sep 17, 2021 2:22 pm | Comments (2)
Students at Ross/Woodward School spent Friday across town at Hillhouse High School’s Floyd Little Fieldhouse after bats were discovered inside their building.
by | Sep 17, 2021 12:57 pm | Comments (0)
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Parent Marty Edwards at school pick-up: Kids love to wear masks!
Two weeks into the school year, Hamden appears to be rolling with multiple Covid-19 challenges, as families adjust to routines and so far no high-school cases have been reported.
by | Sep 16, 2021 8:56 pm | Comments (7)
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Eighth and ninth-graders get virtual presentation at Social Justice Summer Camp.
New Haven Public Schools are working on a more structured way to teach quarantining kids this academic year and going forward.
by | Sep 16, 2021 8:52 pm | Comments (5)
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Nataliya Braginsky at work at Metro.
The country is now in on Metropolitan Business Academy’s secret.
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by | Sep 15, 2021 2:08 pm | Comments (5)
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ESUMS Principal Medria Blue: new reading, tech, AP econ, social-emotional plans in works.
More outdoor classrooms. Visits from local artists. New cybersecurity courses. Improvements to a greenhouse. A wellness room for school staff.
Those are some plans principals have for investing a chunk of the federal pandemic relief coming to New Haven Public Schools.
by | Sep 14, 2021 8:37 am | Comments (38)
Spectators at Hillhouse-Hamden turn phones to record one of numerous fights breaking out in the stands.
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Schools security chief Reddish: “Everyone breathing. We’re not attending a funeral.”
New Haven was lucky no one got shot.
School and security officials offered that assessment as part of a briefing about a series of brawls that broke out last Friday at a Hillhouse High School football home game at Bowen Field against Hamden High.
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by | Sep 10, 2021 10:39 am | Comments (4)
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Attendees and participants at Thursday night’s youth mayoral forum.
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Leng holds separate forum with U.S. Rep Rosa DeLauro and Hamden Chief of Staff Adam Sendroff.
What are the root causes of food insecurity, and who is responsible for combating them?
Are Hamden schools equitable? Should we sell Wintergreen?
Why should we vote for you? What makes you stand out?
Hamden’s three Democratic mayoral candidates faced that final flurry of publicly posed questions at two different forums on Thursday night, five days in advance of the Sept. 14 primary.
Continue reading ‘Mayoral Candidates Tackle Hunger, Schools, Experience’
by | Sep 10, 2021 10:06 am | Comments (24)
Blatteau (center) and “Fighting For Our Future” slate at Bear’s Smokehouse Barbecue campaign launch.
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Cicarella: “Do you change for the sake of change?”
A new race is on for New Haven Federation of Teachers president — with the union’s 15-year incumbent facing a challenge from a teacher-activist’s slate focusing on democratic process, clear communication, and coalition-building.
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by | Sep 3, 2021 4:21 pm | Comments (1)
At least 27 additional people, and probably more, need to quarantine after four more Covid-19 cases have been identified in public schools.
And in a separate incident, a hit-and-run driver sent a security guard to the hospital after striking her at a dismissal line.
by | Sep 3, 2021 11:23 am | Comments (21)
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CEO Chime: Got $100K to drop out of Yale and develop new emergency-communications tech.
A witness called 911 to report an assault on the Green. The dispatcher texted back a link to a new app, enabling the witness to live-stream video of the attack and provide more details for first responders.
That happened recently thanks to an experiment taking place in New Haven.
by | Sep 2, 2021 12:36 pm | Comments (11)
Former Brennan Rogers Principal Laura Roblee, who was demoted for her use of the “n‑word” and was the target of a petition by school staffers, has a new role: overseeing the district’s mentorship program for beginning teachers.
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by | Sep 1, 2021 3:55 pm | Comments (4)
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School and town officials at Wednesday’s press conference.
Hamden has reached a deal to sell Wintergreen school for $16 million— which Mayor Leng said will result in Church Street and Shepherd Glen Elementary School remaining open and the town getting a new fire station.
Continue reading ‘$16M Wintergreen School Sale Deal Struck; 2 Other Schools Saved’
by | Sep 1, 2021 3:42 pm | Comments (0)
Three New Haven students have had Covid-19 cases confirmed in the first two days of the school year.
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by | Sep 1, 2021 2:09 pm | Comments (2)
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Leslie Blatteau: Responded to in writing.
Two weeks after Leslie Blatteau asked the Board of Education a question, she got an answer.
That was progress. Before the roll-out of a new response system, there was no way for members of the public to get answers to questions they posed to the school board.
by | Aug 31, 2021 7:41 am | Comments (4)
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Robinson updates wife over phone for third time: I found the kids!
John Robinson circled around Dunbar Hill Elementary in search of his two daughters.
“This is too stressful!” he exclaimed. His 4‑year-old nephew clung to his neck while the voice of his worried wife echoed in his ear.
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by | Aug 30, 2021 7:12 pm | Comments (1)
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Amor, Jorge, Ana, and mom Luz Almontes at the end of the first day of Family Academy of Multilingual Exploration (FAME).
The former Columbus Family Academy kicked off the school year with a new name, a new principal — and a new fifth-grade scientist, who on his first day absorbed a lesson about ecosystems.
by | Aug 30, 2021 3:10 pm | Comments (9)
A door at Fair Haven School on Friday.
Teachers were scraping mold off their classroom furniture to get ready for the first day of school in New Haven Monday, as a new wave of HVAC problems besets the system.
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