The Fair Haven school currently named after Christopher Columbus.
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Teacher Irene Logan: Let’s represent the diversity of our students.
Should Columbus Family Academy’s new name represent all the ethnicities at the school? Should it make a statement about indigenous history? Should it keep “family academy” for continuity’s sake?
A committee of teachers, parents, students and community leaders has eight weeks to settle these questions.
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Apr 19, 2021 11:47 am
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Madeline Gersch, 7, with mom, Sarah Levine.
Edgewood first-grader Madeline Gersch has to read a word roughly 50 times before she can recognize it on the page. This process takes longer when she guesses words instead of sounding them out.
Madeline has dyslexia. Her mother is a reading specialist in New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) and gets frustrated when she sees her daughter learning reading techniques that slow down her progress.
NHPS Supt. Iline Tracey: “Money, money everywhere.”
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The city’s typically cash-strapped school system has a big challenge, and a big opportunity: Figuring out how to spend $136 million in pandemic-induced federal relief over the next few years without getting hooked on the short-term dough.
President Dave Cicarella (left) faces challenger Tom Burns, again.
By the end of the school year, teachers will get a third chance to select their union president — for a term that is nearly over.
U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant has ordered the New Haven Federation of Teachers to hold a second rerun of a controversy-plagued Dec. 2018 election.
Student rep Lihame Arouna: Psychologists, not cops.
The New Haven Board of Education plans to transition away from posting police officers in schools. The planned first step is to invest more in school psychologists, counselors and social workers.
New Haven Public Schools has hired a new chief operating officer, five months after the resignation of previous COO Michael Pinto.
The Board of Education Monday evening voted to hire Thomas Lamb for the administrative post in a 5 – 1 vote. Tamiko Jackson-McArthur voted against the hire; Darnell Goldson was absent.
Jackson, 17, gets first Pfizer dose from Dr. Donald Levine.
While 17-year-old Jackson Elberson rolled his sleeve up to get his first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, his father stood by his side nervous but hopeful he was making the safest choice for his son.
(Opinion.) The results of the New Haven school choice system are out. It’s a good time for our city’s most privileged families to think about how we talk about our “wins” and “losses” in this lottery.
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Board member Tamiko Jackson-McArthur: This is not the path to healing.
The assistant principal has been running Brennan Rogers School this week after the principal was based on leave pending an investigation into an alleged use of a racial slur.
Every month over the past school year, each pre‑K through sixth grade student at Elm City Montessori School (ECMS) has read the same book. One month the book may teach how to navigate being the odd one out at school; the next month it might guide students to question gender stereotypes.
The reading is part of an initiative at the school called One Book, One School, the only one of its kind in New Haven’s public school system.
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Two murder mysteries. A string of love letters. A Choose Your Own Adventure-style story. And testimony after testimony of the things lost and found during the pandemic.
Co-op High School’s theater department has joined a national theater-by-mail festival, and in doing so, will have a chance to show New Haven and beyond how a high school theater program can continue to make art even when stages have to stay dark.
An uncovered and rusty exhaust fan at Fair Haven School, juxtaposed with properly covered fans on another rooftop. This photograph was taken last fall when city inspectors discovered widespread long-term neglect in maintenance of schools.
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Board member Conaway: Bring back people who worked with these machines.
Bringing 19 custodial and maintenance positions back onto the New Haven Public Schools payroll would cost only $80,000 more than outsourcing over the course of five years.
Schools Chief Financial Officer Phillip Penn provided that updated cost estimate to the Board of Education this week.
Dani Cardenas, 4, definitely has that blue dish soap at home.
Westville Community Nursery School (WCNS) is heading into its next half century with the principle that has served it well for 50 years — listen to children and teach them what they want to know.
Superintendent Iline Tracey: “We have a challenge on our hands.”
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High school report cards had far more Fs this fall than last year.
The Covid-19 pandemic has produced a new batch of sobering data: The number of New Haven high schoolers who failed five or more classes this winter was four times higher than it was the previous year as learning went remote.
Phillip Penn plans to leave his position as New Haven Public Schools’ chief financial officer this summer for a similar role in Hartford Public Schools.
Wexler Grant School (pictured): By summer, the heating will be fully fixed.
Wexler-Grant and Fair Haven schools will finally have five fully functional boilers by this summer, at least a year after the New Haven Public Schools started planning to upgrade the two schools’ heating systems.
Beecher gym teacher explains a game at Friday’s assembly.
Exactly a year after New Haven schools closed in response to Covid-19, L. W. Beecher students and staff Friday reflected on all that happened — and celebrated the fact that they made it through.
Rusted exhaust fan at Fair Haven School, before ordered repairs.
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Goldson: Job not getting done.
Amid reports of new schools with already malfunctioning HVAC systems and neglected air filters, the Board of Education is reconsidering its dependence on an outside facilities manager.
Superintendent Tracey at the opening of Wilbur Cross’s vaccine clinic.
After more than a year of online-only learning, local high school students will be able to return to in-person classes starting April 5, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) officials announced on Friday.
Lashonda Toon (right): Daughter was eager to return.
Eighth grader Brian McClain was the only student back in his classroom Thursday. And it made a difference: He mastered a lesson in eight minutes after struggling remotely for months with pre-algebra.
