by | Mar 3, 2021 5:25 pm | Comments (1)
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Dr. Lagarde vaccinates Jonathan Hill at Cross clinic Wednesday.
King/Robinson middle school STEM teacher Jonathan Hill breathed a sigh of relief.
Not only will he be returning to the classroom in person for the first time in nearly a year later this week. He’ll also be doing so with a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine already in his arm.
by | Mar 2, 2021 10:37 am | Comments (16)
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Barbarotta: The person who used to do this got cut.
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Old air filter found during inspection at Nathan Hale School.
The next time one of the 6,244 filters that clean the air in school buildings does not get changed, New Haven school officials said, they intend to find out who did not do their job.
They said that at a hearing Monday night into embarrassing revelations about routine repairs overlooked for years in schools throughout New Haven, endangering students’ health.
by | Mar 1, 2021 7:34 pm | Comments (1)
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Miguel Cardona, President Biden’s newly confirmed education secretary, shown at an Oct. 21 Hamden school mock presidential election
It’s official: New Haven’s schools have a friendly ear in the Biden administration.
by | Mar 1, 2021 11:02 am | Comments (4)
“A few” cases of Covid-19 have emerged at John C. Daniels School, so all students will learn remotely on Monday until officials learn more about the spread.
Continue reading ‘Daniels School Goes All-Remote For Day To Trace Covid Spread’
by | Mar 1, 2021 10:53 am | Comments (3)
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Principal Mia Duff with Johnny Dye at Friday’s Black History Month ceremony.
Clemente Leadership Academy capped off Black History Month with a living example of New Haven’s Black history, Johnny Dye.
by | Feb 26, 2021 11:01 am | Comments (2)
Dr. Don C. Sawyer, a sociology professor at Quinnipiac University, mentioned on Thursday evening that he’d co-edited a book called Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline, out now as of this week. The book’s themes — of how hip hop can be used in the education system as a force to empower and uplift students — could have been the subject of a lecture.
But “rather than me talking about the book,” Sawyer said, he wanted to “bring together people who are doing the work.”
by | Feb 25, 2021 6:03 pm | Comments (22)
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Four-year-old air filter at Worthington Hooker.
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Building Official Turcio at inspection: What about asthma?
It took the Covid-19 pandemic to reveal air filters that had sat collecting dust for years at public schools throughout New Haven.
The air — and the origin of the problems — is still not cleared up.
Newly released reports of Covid-sparked city inspections of 21 schools found that two-thirds had dirty or poorly maintained ventilation systems. About half had air filters that hadn’t been replaced in years prior to October, rather than twice a year as recommended.
by | Feb 23, 2021 11:16 am | Comments (10)
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CFO Phil Penn: Bad form to abandon plan so soon.
Help is not on the way from the state to close the gap between what New Haven schools need and what they’ll get, the system’s financial chief warned.
by | Feb 23, 2021 10:53 am | Comments (1)
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A dance party, spoken word performances, meditation, a student panel: New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) hopes to have something for everyone on Wednesday, the district’s first “Day of Hope and Healing” in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
by | Feb 19, 2021 4:44 pm | Comments (17)
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Wexler-Grant Community School: brrrr.
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Teachers union prez Cicarella: Zero maintenance for years.
Jackets have become a common addition to the Wexler-Grant school uniform — as students have been directed to wear them during class because of a malfunctioning heating system.
by | Feb 16, 2021 2:38 pm | Comments (7)
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Ed board’s Conaway: “Next logical step.”
New Haven Public Schools sixth through eighth graders will have the option to attend some in-person classes starting on March 4, Superintendent Iline Tracey announced Tuesday.
by | Feb 15, 2021 5:18 pm | Comments (5)
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Birna Bermudez gets her first delivery from Lucina Capuano.
A visitor came to Birna Bermudez’s home from New Haven’s public schools and dropped off a new form of pandemic assistance: 14 meals’ worth of fresh fruits and vegetables.
by | Feb 15, 2021 10:27 am | Comments (0)
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Liz Gaffney: Staying with early childhood ed.
One of the most important lessons city Head Start Director Liz Gaffney learned in New Haven, she learned while riding a bus.
Gaffney reflected on the two years she spent in the position as she prepares to move on to a higher-level position in Milford Public Schools.
by | Feb 15, 2021 10:15 am | Comments (7)
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Our schools are short-changed by millions.
(Opinion) Educational Cost Sharing (ECS) is a funding mechanism that was intended to level the playing field in funding school districts. Instead, it has benefited majority-white schools.
by | Feb 11, 2021 1:22 pm | Comments (12)
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Director of Public Health Nursing Jennifer Vazquez has resigned.
March 12 will be Jennifer Allis Vazquez’s last day as New Haven’s director of public health nursing.
Vazquez has played a prominent role in helping schools partially reopen during the Covid-19 pandemic.
by | Feb 9, 2021 1:56 pm | Comments (7)
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Board member Larry Conaway: Focus on students not showing up.
Should schools get more dollars based on how many English learners attend? Based on low test scores? The number of chronically absent students?The New Haven Board of Education raised these questions Monday night as part of its first full look at a proposed $198 million budget for the coming fiscal year.
by | Feb 8, 2021 7:38 pm | Comments (3)
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Chris Murphy in New Haven Monday.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy made two New Haven stops Monday to discuss his efforts to bring back federal funding for youth summer enrichment programs and the FEMA Empowering Essential Deliveries (FEED) Act.
by | Feb 8, 2021 2:15 pm | Comments (0)
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Chief Reyes (center) at Monday police presser.
Police are following leads in two of the violent episodes that have rattled the city over the past week — a school carjacking and the shooting up of a school official’s home.
by | Feb 8, 2021 11:08 am | Comments (9)
Ms. Basso’s Lunch Bunch
(Updated Monday 8:44 p.m.) Six years in making, a new district-wide Code of Conduct was passed unanimously Monday night by the Board of Education.
by | Feb 5, 2021 12:51 pm | Comments (10)
The latest daily total shows seven more reported Covid-19 cases among people at five New Haven pre-K‑5 schools.
by | Feb 3, 2021 2:30 pm | Comments (5)
Thirteen people will go into quarantine from Barack H. Obama Magnet University School and another from King/Robinson Interdistrict Magnet School as a result of the latest reports of Covid-19 cases in the public schools.
by | Feb 1, 2021 5:41 pm | Comments (1)
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The New Haven Green Monday.
The New Haven Public Schools canceled its meal distribution program on Monday and may cancel it again on Tuesday.
by | Jan 29, 2021 5:23 pm | Comments (15)
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Nursing director Vazquez (at left): No in-school transmissions yet.
Officials had a dilemma after a kindergartener tested positive for Covid-19 this week at dual-language Christopher Columbus Family Academy: Who else should stay home?
by | Jan 29, 2021 12:19 pm | Comments (11)
A positive case of Covid-19 at Ross Woodward School has led to the quarantining of 13 people there.
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by | Jan 28, 2021 11:26 am | Comments (19)
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Santana: “Somebody didn’t do the work. Somebody bankrolled the money somewhere.”
After embarrassing revelations about deferred maintenance, New Haven plans to launch an annual check on its schools to make sure multi-million-dollar buildings are being kept up.
New Haven Public Schools administrators revealed this plan after a night of tough questions at a hearing Wednesday night.