Owen Agba, Grace Sherman, and Nathaly Ynoa Martinez: No phones, no problems.
When Barnard School eighth-graders Grace Sherman and Nathaly Ynoa Martinez and Owen Agba arrived at school Friday morning, they put their smartphones in magnetically sealed pouches — which they likely wouldn’t unlock until the end of the day.
After participating in a year-long experiment in phone-free classrooms, they looked forward to another day of in-person learning and socializing with friends, unmired by the distractions of TikTok and Instagram. Meanwhile, their governor and one of their U.S. senators popped into their school to learn about how that’s all going.
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Sep 18, 2024 9:28 am
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Tom DeLucia (right) with fellow Local 287 employees: "The situation was never good, but the last two years have been truly deplorable."
Local custodian union President Tom DeLucia is calling on the Board of Education to rid New Haven of private companies for building and facilities maintenance in order to improve repairs at decaying schools across the district.
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Sep 16, 2024 9:28 am
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2022 Hall of Famer Shirley Neighbors (right) pins 2024 inductee Charles Williams for a half century of service to New Haven's public schools.
A public schools superintendent, a Pulitzer Prize-winning financial journalist, and a high school leader in points, rebounds, and blocked shots all now have at least one thing in common: They’re all newly minted inductees to Lee-Career High’s Hall of Fame.
NHPS Supt. Negrón (right) to fired I.T. boss (left): "You took no steps whatsoever to ensure BOE was protected from cyberattacks."
(Updated) The Board of Education’s I.T. network was “among the worst” a cybersecurity contractor had ever seen — and New Haven Public Schools’ (NHPS) top tech safety official misrepresented the work she had done to protect the district from future cyberattacks following a $6 million hack.
Those sharp rebukes are included in a three-page termination letter sent by NHPS Supt. Madeline Negrón to Gildemar Herrera. The letter offers the first publicly available insight into why the district fired its I.T. director, who also serves as a municipal union president.
Troup seventh grader Lizmarie Hernandez eyed the word “consume” in her English workbook.
Instead of looking it up on her phone, she flipped to the book’s glossary to learn its definition — and then wrote that down by hand to help herself remember.
After a summer of completing paid internships and starting entry-level jobs across New Haven, 160 New Haven Promise scholars are kicking off the school year with a total of nearly $1 million in hand.
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Sep 11, 2024 10:10 am
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Dee Marshall: "We don't need to just put our kids just in a class so the bodies will be some place. They need enrichment."
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) needs to amp up its resources for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in order to get back to developing enriched “future leaders and global citizens.”
Keisha Redd-Hannans: In some cases, NHPS surpasses pre-pandemic growth numbers.
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New Haven students are steadily making their way back to pre-pandemic proficiency rates, as newly received state assessment results for the 2023 – 24 school year show improved math, science, and English skills.
Metropolitan Business Academy social studies teacher Julia Miller, who is going on 18 years of teaching, has been named the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) teacher of the year.
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Sep 6, 2024 11:53 am
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NHPS sixth graders at work, building a robot at Floyd Little Athletic Center. This work won't be done at Wilbur Cross.
The city’s public school district has scrapped plans to build a new manufacturing pathway lab at Wilbur Cross High School over concerns around contractor timeline and building space, and will be partnering instead with a Fair Haven manufacturing training nonprofit.
Fifteen alumni — including athletes, educators, and even a Pulitzer Prize-winner — are set to be inducted into the Lee-Career Hall of Fame later this month, after hundreds of community members cast their votes for the most accomplished alums of the former and current Hill public high schools.
Vent trouble at Cross, the day before the start of school.
Wilbur Cross’s library will be closed for at least a week as the city’s public school district gets rid of air-borne mold spores — as part of its response to unkempt building conditions at the city’s largest high school at the start of the school year.
That state has awarded New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) $175,000 to continue providing its high school students with public bus passes not just to get to school and extracurriculars but now also to jobs, internships, and college courses, and then back home.
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Sep 3, 2024 5:18 pm
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Gildemar Herrera: I was "wrongfully dismissed."
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has fired Local 3144 President Gildemar Herrera after a months-long investigation into a $6 million cybersecurity theft concluded that she “failed in the performance of her duties” as the city school district’s information technology director.
Pads on display at a Dwight period product giveaway.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) intends to comply with a new state law that requires public school districts to provide students with free menstrual products in bathrooms — and is still looking to secure funding to make that mandate a long-term reality.
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Aug 29, 2024 2:37 pm
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Eighth grader Yabsira, third grader Amanbuen, and dad Yemiamrew Teferi, on the first day of school.
Yemiamrew Teferi and his two sons Yabsira and Amanbuen showed up to Augusta Lewis Troup School on Thursday for their first first day of classes with New Haven Public Schools (NHPS), after moving from Ethiopia to the Elm City two months ago.
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Aug 29, 2024 2:14 pm
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Knox and Kenzl Ellis: Used to uniforms in New York preschool, ready for uniforms in New Haven kindergarten.
Eighth graders Nike, Kaylee, and Aaliyah with Principal Eugene Foreman (back right) and Troup Culture and Climate Specialist Da'Jhon Jett. As Kaylee said, "Nobody is going to want to be disrespectful with Mr. Jett. He's everyone's fave."
Troup kindergarteners Knox and Kenzl Ellis showed up to the first day of classes Thursday wearing matching green polo shirts and khaki pants — in line with the return of uniforms to the Edgewood Avenue public school.
After a pandemic hiatus, Troup’s administration has brought back its uniform requirement with the goal of encouraging higher levels of attendance by reducing the number of clothing decisions, and purchases, students and their families have to make.
Water-damaged tiles in Kim Anderson's English classroom.
Special education staffers Melissa Pellino and Lauren Pollio: "This is what we do for the kids."
Wilbur Cross teachers rushed to prepare their classrooms for Thursday’s first day of school by hanging up posters of Angela Davis, signs reading “be brave,” and world maps — and by cleaning mold from walls, covering broken floor tiles with rugs, and mopping the floors of classrooms and bathrooms alike.
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Aug 28, 2024 2:07 pm
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Evelyn Robles-Rivas: "ESL services are a tier 1 support."
Don’t underestimate your students — especially those who are working to learn English as a second or third language while also trying to keep up in the classroom.
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Aug 27, 2024 3:00 pm
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Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School dancers.
This Citizen Contribution was submitted by New Haven Public Schools Director of Communications and Marketing Justin Harmon.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Mayor Justin Elicker joined Supt. Dr. Madeline Negrón in a convocation celebrating the contributions New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) staff will make in the coming school year. The event was held Tuesday, Aug. 27 at the Lyman Center, Southern Connecticut State University.
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Aug 26, 2024 4:59 pm
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New educators learn about Newhallville's learning corridor from Doreen Abubakar and Kim Harris.
While bussing around Newhallville, newly-hired Hillhouse, Nathan Hale, and Riverside psychologist Debbie Hull took note of hair braiding shops, faith centers, delis, green spaces, and transitional housing resources to share with her students this coming school year.
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Aug 26, 2024 11:14 am
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Students at MATCH, a new manufacturing training program that received a city ARPA grant.
A future vocational training hub for New Haven Public Schools students could offer tracks in building, manufacturing, technology, health, and transportation — per the city’s latest plan for millions of dollars of one-time federal aid that were allocated for various trade education initiatives two years ago.
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Aug 23, 2024 3:30 pm
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Shaylah McQueen-Lee: "Never give up on kids."
Step by step on Grand Avenue Friday morning, Shaylah McQueen-Lee walked towards her near future as a K‑2 teacher at Benjamin Jepson School — marking her return to the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) district after graduating from Hillhouse more than a decade ago as both valedictorian and a teen mom.
