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Hopkins Head of School Kai Bynum at last week’s commencement ceremony.
Hopkins School has launched a national search for a successor to Kai Bynum, who announced he will resign as head of school at the close of the 2021 – 2022 academic year.
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The school formerly known as Christopher Columbus Family Academy. PS: That’s not Columbus on the roof.
“Family Academy of Multilingual Exploration” (FAME) is officially in. And “Christopher Columbus Family Academy” (CCFA) is officially out.
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Literature class back in in-person session at New Haven Academy.
All New Haven Public Schools students will study in-person, five days a week starting on Aug. 30, for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
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Class speaker Nadom Kwaku Akomeah addresses a sea of blue-robed graduates.
A sea of blue-clad students said goodbye to a unique high school experience filled with sailing, rowing, fishing, and diving.
Continue reading ‘Sound School Graduates 58 Seniors Bound For College & For Trades’
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Supt. Tracey: Don’t “destroy a person’s life over slip of the tongue.”
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Goldson: This isn’t minor.
Brennan-Rogers Magnet School’s principal has been demoted to assistant principal, at a school to be determined, after she used the “n‑word” during hypothethical statements at an anti-racism workshop. Dissenting board members argued a private apology and demotion were not enough to repair the harm done.
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Tony Coleman, one of 49 New Haven Academy grads Monday.
“You can do better,” Tony Coleman’s aunt told him.
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Graduates at Floyd Little Athletic Center.
The lessons taught by the arts transcend barriers.
Continue reading ‘135 Co-op Grads Take Arts Education With Them Along With Diplomas’
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Frazier (left), Alder Morrison at unveiling of “Jeffie Frazier Way.”
One of the city’s leading educators, retired Principal Jeffie Frazier, has died at the age of 77.
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James Cramer, at left, with Beatrice at DuBois-Walton meet-and-greet.
James Cramer popped a question Sunday that will help him — and perhaps other undecided voters — figure out which mayoral candidate to vote for this year.
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Superintendent Tracey at Friday’s commencement.
After balancing school work, a custody battle for her 7‑month old son, and a job as a manager at KFC, 18-year-old Kayla Folk walked side by side with her best friend Rea’gean Oakley, bright smiles on both their faces. Together, they picked up their high school diplomas.
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Graduates celebrate at Wednesday commencement ceremony.
A year and a half of resilience and dedication was celebrated Thursday as New Haven Adult and Continuing Education Center graduates walked across the stage and received their diplomas.
Continue reading ‘137 Adult Ed Grads Celebrated For Pandemic “Resilience”’
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Keep it up, Superintendent: Jon Voight in supportive tete-a-tete with Iline Tracey near the temporary “Ray Donovan” set at Union Station.
“That’s Jon Voight!”
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Committee votes on how many names to send to Board of Education.
After two rounds of voting, a committee settled on a preliminary new name for Christopher Columbus Family Academy (CCFA): Family Academy of Multilingual Exploration (FAME).
Continue reading ‘“FAME” Wins Ranked-Choice 1st Round Of Columbus School Renaming’
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Graduating Hillhouse senior Tiasia Jones.
Tiasia Jones is heading to Morgan State University with help from her Dwight, West River and Edgewood neighbors.
The Hillhouse senior won $500 from the Dwight Central Management Team’s DeBorah E. Davis Scholarship with her essay on bagging groceries for food insecure families on Thanksgiving.
Continue reading ‘Dwight Helps Send Aspiring OB/GYN To HBCU’
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King Lanson, honored with Dixwell statue: Next, a school?
King Lanson School?
How about Momauguin Family and Cultural School?
Or Four Winds Family Academy?
Those are among the 240 name suggestions submitted so far for the Fair Haven school currently known, but not for long, as Christopher Columbus Family Academy (CCFA).
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Clockwise from top left: Chris Daur, Jodi Goeler, Eric Nyquist, Tom Ariola, and Gary Walsh at committee meeting.
A flood of federal money will enable Hamden schools to keep kids busy and fed this summer and tackle an achievement gap.
Continue reading ‘$12M In Pandemic Relief Means Summer Camp For All In Hamden’
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Superintendent Iline Tracey leads hikers up East Rock.
Principals Edith and Joseph Johnson, with one of their sons, Jacob.
The prospect of an almost vertical climb 366 feet up East Rock didn’t faze New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey.
The students, staffers and parents alongside her?
“If I can do it,” the 66-year-old vegan educator declared, “they can, too.”
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CFO Phillip Penn: Watch out for that funding cliff.
The New Haven Board of Education Wednesday night adopted a $198 million budget for the fiscal year starting July 1.
Though the board got millions less from the city than requested, this budget will not require layoffs or cuts, thanks to federal Covid-19 relief.
At the same time, a majority of board members voted down $5 hourly raises to parttime paraprofessionals, with the promise of some kind of raise before the end of the summer.
Continue reading ‘$198M School Budget Approved, As Fed Rescue $ Closes Deficit’
by | Jun 2, 2021 8:36 am | Comments (1)
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Kiana Flores, 17: It would be ridiculous if no federal aid went to climate relief.
New Haven Board of Education members have a chance of getting an A, but they will have to work for it.
They face tough grading from students involved in the New Haven Climate Movement. The students promise to dole out As only if the board spends $6.6 million in federal aid on climate education and upgrades.
Continue reading ‘Youth Climate Activists Grade Ed Board On Pandemic Aid Spending’
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Principal Glen Worthy pitches health pathway to eighth-graders.
Starting this fall, Hillhouse students will be able to take enough biology, terminology and lab courses to skip a year of college — or enter the workforce right away in high-paying jobs.
Continue reading ‘Hillhouse Opens Pathway To Health Careers’
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The Westville Community Nursery School, located on Tour Avenue
As the children of Westville Community Nursery School nap to the sounds of a piano and play outside, those in charge of the school are working to improve the school with a new solar roof.
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Senior Camp Wender weeds while junior Ahniya Holder waters.
Senior Johanyx Rodriguez: This color is making me happy.
High School in the Community (HSC) seniors returned to their school building after a year of remote school determined to leave a legacy.
For Camp Wender, that meant revitalizing an old school garden. For Johanyx Rodriguez, it meant creating a coral-colored senior lounge.
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U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy knows that his constituents worry about being able to make ends meet. It’s his job to connect that worry to congressional solutions.
He sees the American Rescue Plan’s child tax credit as a solution. Property taxes, though, remain a barrier to affordability.
Continue reading ‘Murphy: Child Tax Credit Great; Property Tax “Nutso”’
by | May 31, 2021 9:14 am | Comments (2)
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Cynthia Howard: My apartment looks like a New York loft.
Seven-plus years of work in childcare offered Cynthia Howard no cushion when divorce and surgery costs pushed her into homelessness.
She now has her own apartment again — thanks to her workplace’s efforts to break cycles of poverty in the childcare industry by providing free housing to employees.
by | May 28, 2021 9:46 am | Comments (0)
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Gammy Moses leads Elm City Montessori drummers at Thursday’s protest.
In 1963, kids marched for desegregation in Birmingham, Alabama, as police officers attacked them with dogs and fire hoses.
In 2021, kids in New Haven remembered their predecessors’ bravery with the hope that they too could spark change.