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Lucia Nunez Del Prado, Brayan Sanchez, and Milton Guzman.
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Lucia Nunez Del Prado, Brayan Sanchez, and Milton Guzman are ready for the new school year to begin Monday: They have their vaccine shots, they’re even OK with wearing masks. And, after experiencing remote learning, they much prefer the idea of being back in class in person.
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Aug 30, 2021 6:43 am
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Emani Arnold: “Confident side” ready for school.
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Imani Moore, 5, searches for her hair style of choice at Sunday’s event at The Village.
“Everyday I look in the mirror and tell myself, ‘You can do this,” 14-year-old Emani Arnold said from a folding chair where she patiently waited two hours for a back-to-school hairdo of bright red braids.
Those burgundy plaits will frame Arnold’s face Monday morning when she performs the mirror routine in preparation for her first day of 11th grade.
Declaring that Connecticut is not “Mississippi,” Gov. Ned Lamont Thursday afternoon issued a statewide Covid-19 vaccination mandate for all public and private-school teachers.
An historic church and an historic school building will be renovated, and a crumbling former rectory and convent will come down to make room for new athletic fields and a basketball court, under a plan to build a new campus for St. Martin de Porres Academy.
ESUMS grad Yelena Muralles of the youth program LEAP, who’s headed to UConn this fall, checks in families at Monday’s rally/fair.
Back-to-school anticipation and excitement filled the air at Bowen Field as families prepared for kids’ return to the classroom — without a doubt, this year, that that’s where they belong.
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Aug 13, 2021 4:39 pm
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WNBA’s Tanaya Atkinson at Friday’s giveaway.
Barber Brian MacCalla give 5-year-old Jayce Smith a shape-up at Friday’s back-to-school event.
As basketball star Tanaya Atkinson prepared to fly out of the country, she passed the rock to kids back home in New Haven to ensure they have filled book bags and free fresh hair cuts in time to return to school.
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Aug 10, 2021 1:08 pm
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Appointees at Monday night’s board meeting.
New Haven Public School’s (NHPS) veteran school leader Sequella Coleman is taking on a new role this fall, as principal of Metropolitan Business Academy.
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Aug 4, 2021 2:36 pm
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Eighth and ninth-graders during Tuesday’s class.
Summer camp continued for one group of teens in New Haven this week, as they learned about how government catches up with sexual predators and about the science of scamming.
Mayor Justin Elicker waving to his daughter on the bus in January.
All public school students taking the bus this fall will need to be masked up while onboard. Bus drivers, however, will not be required to be vaccinated.
The young people set the rhythm for the Cha-Cha-Slide, and the cops joined in — with the hope of making one “right foot stomp” fit into a broader effort to connect police with developmentally disabled youth.
NHPS Asst. Superintendent Paul Whyte: “No official way to check who has and hasn’t been vaccinated,”
When students return to public school next month in Hamden and New Haven, they will need a mask to enter — but they won’t necessarily need to have received Covid-19 shots.
Clergy group storms mayor’s office for half-hour sit-in.
A group of 10 ministers pressing concerns about racial justice entered CIty Hall for a sit-in — then left after praying and singing inside a mayoral conference room for 30 minutes.
Hamden Mayor Curt Leng has added his voice to a chorus of parents, teachers, and community members calling on the Board of Education to reverse a unanimous 2018 vote to shutter Church Street School.
Justin Elicker swears in student representative Ma’Shai Roman during Monday’s meeting.
Non-certified teachers and paraprofessionals working part-time for the New Haven Public Schools “Summer of Fun” programming will receive short-term pay increases this summer.
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Jul 13, 2021 10:55 am
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Newly appointed Brennan Rogers Principal Kimberly Daniley, Bishop Woods Principal Florence Crisci.
The school at the center of a controversy over use of a racial slur has a new principal, after an hour-long Board of Education debate over how best to move forward.
Dozens of New Haveners turned out Sunday to blast “blind leaders” for their handling of a public-school “n‑word” controversy — as one schools leader showed up to defend it and engage in dialogue.
