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Sep 1, 2020 7:30 am
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Shaquan Whitfield with Joshua and Justin.
Diamond Tree (center) leads a hula hoop activity.
Shaquan Whitfield brought her children, Joshua and Justin Currie, to a neighborhood-spanning, back-to-school fair on the Farmington Canal Trail because she wanted to “show my kids there’s more positive than negative” in Newhallville.
Board Prez Rivera: Thought votes were in place to change plan.
New Haven Public Schools still plan to start the academic year with 10 weeks of remote learning — at least for now.
That was the result of a four-hour Board of Education meeting Monday night at which an alternative plan for a step-by-step in-person phase-in was seriously considered, then not voted on.
Common Ground High School, Booker T. Washington Academy and the five New Haven schools in the Achievement First network have all committed to a hybrid of in-person and virtual classes this fall as the Covid-19 pandemic continues.
Achievement First is waiting a couple of weeks to resume in person, while Common Ground is offering concerned teachers a no-medical-permissions-necessary option of teaching from home.
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Aug 24, 2020 8:43 am
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Mother of ten Rameinak Armour-White picked up brand new book bags filled with supplies with six of her youngest kids, who are eager to head back to school safely after the large household struggled to concentrate on remote classes in the Spring.
Superintendent Iline Tracey with assistant superintendent of curriculum, Ivelise Velazquez.
New Haven elementary schoolers will start off the school year with a home science experiment: What happens when they try to move a tissue with their breath while wearing a mask?
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Maya McFadden, Emily Hays and Thomas Breen |
Aug 20, 2020 5:35 pm
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Students, teachers rally at State Capitol for fully funded reopening.
Public appeals issued late this week — at a Hartford protest, via Facebook, and on a popular local radio show— illustrated just how wide of a gap still exists between those calling for all-online instruction to start the year, and those arguing for an in-person learning option.
The first day of school, meanwhile, is just two weeks away.
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Aug 18, 2020 2:36 pm
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Chamber of Commerce webinar on school reopenings.
Wilton and Wallingford Public Schools are ready for a hybrid school reopening with online and in-person instruction and socially distanced classroom setups.
New Haven, meanwhile, remains in limbo — waiting on a state panel to decide on a requested all-remote start to the school year.
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Aug 18, 2020 1:28 pm
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State education commissioner Miguel Cardona: City can decide best path forward.
(Updated at 9:15 p.m.) The state education commissioner assured city leaders that the decision around how New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) reopens this fall — all remote, all in person, or a hybrid of the two — will be decided by local authorities, and not by the state.
He also encouraged the city’s school board to reconsider its vote to start the school year with 10 weeks of all-online learning, and to adopt a hybrid learning plan instead.
Inside Mauro-Sheridan soon before this spring’s school closure.
The following op-ed was written by 14 parents of children at eight different city public schools.
(Opinion) In New Haven, people who have the best interests of children at heart, as well as the wellbeing of teachers and other educators, have come to different conclusions about the safety of reopening the city’s public schools.
Rising seventh grader Carlos Cordoba (pictured) got to see and hear peers for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic hit.
Wexler-Grant sixth grader Carlos Cordoba hadn’t seen anyone except his family and the kids across the street from him since schools closed in March. Even his video games had only voices and avatars for him to interact with.
So when he started a summer program through New Haven Public Schools and his classes were held on Google Meet, the interaction through video calls made all the difference.
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Courtney Luciana |
Aug 17, 2020 12:21 pm
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Jazmyn Richardson looks for a new backpack Saturday.
Ava Rodriguez shows off her new backpack.
Melissa Rodriguez helped her daughter, Ava, pick out a new backpack for her first day of 5th grade.
The mother-daughter duo weren’t at a school supply store — but instead at a Dixwell back to school drive, where they joined other families struggling to navigate precarious finances and uncertainty around the coming school year amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
New Haven Public Schools elected officials and legal help will make their case to a state panel on Tuesday afternoon for why they believe the city school system should be allowed to reopen entirely online this fall.
Student activists and faculty argued in interviews with the Independent that Black, brown, Indigenous and other disadvantaged students face much greater challenges getting into college than the average white or Asian American applicant and that race-conscious applications are necessary in a society with a long history of racial injustice that continues until today.
The city Health Department has indefinitely cancelled all sports games and practices that involve physical contact for the coming school year in an effort to stem the spread of Covid-19.
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Aug 11, 2020 11:05 am
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Mareshah White.
The Hamden High School class of 2020 didn’t get a prom or a last few months of high school spent celebrating with friends. But thanks to the work of one graduate, ’20 grads will walk away with a scholarship to help them through their next life step.
Teacher protest message, embraced by both sides of board debate.
The Board of Education voted to stick with a plan to resume schools remotely in September — while beginning work on a checklist of state actions that could convince it to reopen the doors.
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Courtney Luciana |
Aug 10, 2020 9:45 am
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River and Stevens with school supplies they donated for fellow students.
Jayleani Rivera and Zonasia Stevens are keeping optimistic about adapting to the upcoming school year and overcoming the obstacles of Covid-19. In the meantime, they joined their families on Saturday to donate school supplies at the Dixwell police substation on Charles Street.
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Aug 9, 2020 2:25 pm
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Darnell Goldson.
(Opinion) I arrived at that position based on several factors, but the overriding element was my obligation to “safety first.” Put simply, I believe all available evidence points to a lack of adequate safety protocols to protect our New Haven Public Schools students, families and staff.
New Haven teachers voted to approve a pay freeze for this year in exchange for three years of relief from layoffs, involuntary transfers and rising medical costs.
When Mahogany Lowery went on field trips as a child, she needed an adult with her to give her insulin and make sure her blood sugar levels were not too high or too low. Her diabetes hospitalized her every year, she recalled.
The New Haven native has spun those memories into fiction with her first book, Greatness Over The Rainbow. The book, to be released on Amazon on Friday, follows four kids living in a city like New Haven who experience chronic illness and the deaths of family members and overcome those challenges.
