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Ko Lyn Cheang |
Aug 6, 2020 1:26 pm
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Jose Dishmey Jr., Tyrese Yates, Caroline Scanlan, Steve Outlaw, and Adrian Huq.
Adrian Huq never got the opportunity to hug their friends or say goodbye to their teachers upon graduating this past June. It took a few days for it to hit that they would never be returning to school after students were forced to make a hasty departure from the campus when the public health situation worsened in the Spring.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Aug 6, 2020 12:17 pm
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Rosa DeLauro on Zoom call.
New Haven early child-care provider Queen Freelove knows how to share — and thinks the federal government needs to learn a lesson or two.
“As the president of the Child Care Providers Council, I feel obligated to do anything extra that I can,” she said. “If I get two boxes of masks, I share the other … I do not see how the government cannot do more for us.”
Jaclyn Tolkin prepares to join last week’s teacher protest caravan in New Haven.
Activist groups representing New Haven educators, students, and parents issued a joint appeal Wddnesday to start the school year off with remote-only learning, and to fund it to make it work, because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Gustavo Requena Santos |
Aug 4, 2020 3:23 pm
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Picnic tables set on school ground to serve as outdoor classrooms.
(Opinion) Very early into discussions about how to reopen schools during the Covid-19 pandemic, we were presented with a choice — either continue distance learning, despite its possibility of worsening achievement gaps, or risk the lives of students and staff by bringing them back into school buildings. But are those really the only two options?
Kyasia Parker with aunt and youth advisor, Tynicha Drummond.
Kyasia Parker is a wanderer who loves Justin Bieber music, dancing, and is dyslexic. She likes to sing her math problems and has a hard time focusing when other students are around. But the biggest challenge she faced when she had to take online classes during the pandemic was the unstable internet at home.
Paraprofessionals Hyclis Williams and Albert Alston at recent protest.
This year, the lowest-paid paraprofessionals in New Haven’s schools will make $22,849. That’s a $536 raise over last year — and still thousands of dollars lower than survival budgets calculated for the area.
Elizabeth Reyes: “They’re leaving us to die in the classroom.”
Elizabeth Reyes, a special education teacher at Columbus Family Academy, joined 70 other local teachers in a caravan through New Haven neighborhoods Thursday demanding that schools reopen only if they will be 100 percent safe for all.
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Emily Hays |
Jul 30, 2020 11:56 am
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New Haven preschool teachers at a demonstration in Hartford.
Now that the state has given local governments control over whether they fully reopen schools this September, New Haven’s public schools district has questions to answer before making its own decision.
Hundreds of cars jammed the streets of Downtown New Haven from Hillhouse Avenue all the way to the Yale School of Medicine during rush hour Wednesday to demand that “Yale respect New Haven.”
City employees will not be fired for traveling to a Covid-19 hotspot — but they may lose vacation days.
City employees will not be fired for traveling to states with high levels of Covid-19 cases, Mayor Justin Elicker said on Monday evening.
The statement reversed wording in a city-issued memo that had teachers and other school staff worrying about the security of their jobs late last week.
New Haven teachers are scheduled to vote late this week on whether to freeze their salaries at their current level for a year in exchange for three years of relief on other concerns.
Of the 42 companies that clean New Haven school buildings, plow snow and help with other kinds of maintenance, three are owned by Black or Hispanic New Haveners. The only other minority-owned company on the list is run out of West Haven.
Teachers, parents paras protest in Hartford Thursday.
Sarah Miller’s backseat looked like it belonged to both a mom and traffic guard and on Thursday she was both. Eight bright orange, scuffed-up traffic cones were stacked on top of a well-worn car seat.
Miller, a mother of two, is an organizer with the New Haven Public School Advocates. She was on her way to the state Capitol to help lead a protest against an in-person reopening this fall, which she said will put her children and many others’ health at risk.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Jul 22, 2020 3:49 pm
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An example of a socially distant classroom at Hamden’s Church Street School.
If all goes according to the district’s plans, Hamden schools will be open five days a week in the fall, with students rotating between in-person classes and distance learning.
That hybrid reopening plan was approved Tuesday evening.
Superintendent Tracey: We’re till waiting on state decisions.
Teachers and paraprofessionals asked school brass one question over and over on Tuesday evening: Can they opt out of teaching in person this fall to avoid the risk of catching Covid-19?
New Haven parent Nijija-Ife Waters, who helped plan for school reopening, is worried about safety in the fall.
Every New Haven student will have a laptop or tablet in the fall. At the same time, there will not be enough classroom space for every child to study safely in school buildings.
These are among the guiding assumptions of the emerging New Haven Public Schools plan for use of the education-focused Covid-19 relief promised in the CARES Act in March.
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Laura Glesby |
Jul 21, 2020 9:41 am
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Chapel Haven residents honoring the organization’s recently-expanded name, the Chapel Haven Schleifer Center, in 2018.
A former employee of Chapel Haven was sentenced to 33 months in prison on Monday, after stealing at least $240,000 from both clients and the institution — and puncturing the school’s culture of “family” trust.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jul 20, 2020 11:54 am
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Selma Ward.
Before Selma N. Ward interviewed to become the new CEO of the Children’s Center of Hamden, she wrote a vision statement.
“My vision has always been to help kids build a foundation for their future success,” it read. “I don’t want to see anyone defined by their past experiences: everyone deserves guidance, support, and education.”
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jul 16, 2020 11:36 am
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The building at 20 Davis St.
In order to impose greater social distancing on campus, Hamden Hall will use its recently acquired property at 20 Davis St. to provide new classroom space for high school students come fall.
