DuBois-Walton chats up future voter at campaign launch. She released a 15-point education plan Wednesday, including a proposal to extend the right to vote in municipal elections to 16 year-olds.
You’ve heard of “New Haven Promise” for college students. Mayoral candidate Karen DuBois-Walton wants to create a birth-to‑5 “New Haven Pre-Promise” as well.
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May 26, 2021 8:42 am
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The cast of A Light in the Dark — the showcase from Lights Up Drama Club at Wilbur Cross High School, which will be broadcast June 4 and 5 — assembled in a rehearsal room at the school that would also serve as the beginning scene for the number “I Feel So Much Spring,” from the William Finn-penned musical A New Brain.
As the music began, and music director Matt Durland conducted, all the voices behind the masks sprang to life.
The students glided across the floor as co-director Salvatore DeLucia weaved among them with a camera. It would all be edited together into a final product, with 17 other songs, in time for broadcast.
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May 26, 2021 8:34 am
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After two years of pandemic-induced cancellations, the James Hillhouse High School Army JROTC was back at a leadership camp.
This time, instead of lasting two weeks, the camp was one day long. And it was at Stone’s Ranch Military Reservation in East Lyme instead of Massachusetts.
The Board of Education approved the hiring of two top educators — after debates on the right time to hire administrators, and whether New Haven is being proactive enough for English learners.
DuBois-Walton outside Edgewood: Elicker has not built trust.
New Haven schools should eliminate Wednesdays as a remote learning day, so parents don’t have to juggle work plus their kids’ hybrid learning schedule.
Mayoral challenger Karen DuBois-Walton issued this call Wednesday and blamed incumbent Justin Elicker for failing to build consensus to fully reopen schools sooner.
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May 19, 2021 1:44 pm
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State schools chief Charlene Russell-Tucker in New Haven Tuesday.
Summer camp scholarships. Free student access to museums. Tens of millions of dollars to address learning loss. Hundreds of millions more in direct aid to local education boards — including $79.9 million, not $94 million, for New Haven schools.
A state official came to town to dangle those possibilities.
Sophomores tune into their virtual class from their Hillhouse classroom.
Hillhouse sophomore Jazmin Townsend leaned forward in her desk to whisper an observation from the text into her microphone.
Half the class was sitting in the room with her. Half was online. They all contemplated how to keep the virtual conversation going after they heard her say: “I think one interesting fact is that after it was cooked, the dumpling became alive.”
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May 17, 2021 8:38 am
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(Opinion) “When can we expect the Principalship of the Barack Obama Magnet University School to be posted and the search and screen process to begin?”
This was the question asked at the May 10 meeting of the New Haven Board of Education. The question was a moot one, because that very same day the interview process of candidates for that position had begun. Yet the question deserves an answer.
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May 15, 2021 10:16 pm
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BOE student rep Ma’shai Roman at her election at City Hall.
After a rough year of remote learning, Dwight teen Ma’shai Roman says New Haven schools need to do better with providing students with mental health help and resources.
Now she’s in a position to get that message directly to the people in charge.
After a year of sitting at their computers, King/Robinson fourth graders were ready to move. Their teacher, Michelle Romanelli, realized she could harness that energy to help them learn math.
This led to one of Romanelli’s takeaways from hybrid school — cutting up worksheets makes them way more fun.
Goldson (left): If it makes sense for the kids … McArthur-Jackson: Virtual has benefits.
Should the Board of Education return to in-person meetings, now that schools are reopen? Or stay virtual?
As New Haven emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, board members wrestled with that question, weighing whether some form of Zoomocracy becomes the new normal.
As public schools statewide prepare to institute African-American studies courses, New Haven Academy’s Kelly K. Hope and her students are already on the case.
Quinnipiac School Principal Monica Morales and West Rock Principal Yolanda Jones-Generette will head up Fair Haven School and Celentano Magnet School, respectively, starting this July.
The New Haven Board of Education voted for their transfers on Monday evening, alongside the promotion of Marisol Rodriguez to principal of Columbus Family Academy.
“Are there any volunteers at home who want to do this problem?” said New Haven Academy biology teacher David Herndon, addressing the portion of his class tuned in via computer. “Don’t all jump at once.”
His in-person students giggled.
Herndon switched his attention back to the physical classroom — and, like high school teachers all over New Haven, navigated a new normal of teaching two types of classes at once: Remote, and in-person.
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May 10, 2021 8:51 am
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“Old Early Morning.”
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Hill Regional Career student writer Amelia Stefanovics.
The following is a short story written by Hill Regional Career High School student Amelia Stefanovics and republished from the student magazine Elm City Sage.
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May 6, 2021 9:14 am
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Be authentic and creative. Don’t be afraid of the word “no.” Redistribute power. “I want people who are watching to write this down,” said Adriane Jefferson, director of cultural affairs for the City of New Haven, in a Wednesday afternoon conversation with Guy Fortt, president of the Stamford chapter of the NAACP, Pamela A. Lewis, president of Connect-Us, a Bridgeport-based youth-development program that covers the arts and business networking, and Anghy Idrovo, co-director of CT For A Dream, a nonprofit that works with undocumented students in public schools around the state.
Angela Walder’s doctor has prescribed her remote work for the rest of the school year. Her employer denied that request and ordered the Barnard paraprofessional to return to in-person work this week, or take unpaid time off.
She took the time off.
This is one outcome of New Haven Public Schools’ messy efforts to bring roughly 250 teachers, paras and other staff members with Covid-related accessibility accommodations back to in-person work.
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Apr 30, 2021 8:46 am
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Teaching artist Justin Pesce looked over his cast of A Comedy of Errors through the window of his Zoom meeting. Before him, on the screen, 13 students from Mauro Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School were ready, in their Renaissance clothing, to perform.
“Show me what you got today,” Pesce said, both goad and encouragement. “Yesterday I challenged you and you stepped up to the challenge. I know each and every one of you can do it. Everybody get into your space. Have a great run through. We’re going to have fun.”
Columbus Family Academy Assistant Principal Mary Derwin will step into a new role in July as supervisor of New Haven’s Head Start pre-kindergarten program.
