by | Jul 14, 2020 1:04 pm | Comments (7)
Jennifer Jenkins.
• Hillhouse grad Jennifer Jenkins moves up to run Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School.
• Ross, ESUMS, Cross, Fair Haven get new #2s.
• Pandemic presents challenge.
• Goldson questions hire from outside district.
Continue reading ‘New Principal, Asst. Principals Appointed’
by | Jul 13, 2020 10:22 am | Comments (17)
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Angela Walder: “Paras are the foundation.”
Albert Alston held up this sign to his Zoom camera during the voting process.
By 2023, New Haven Public School entry-level paraprofessionals will earn $23,397 a year, thanks to a $1,000 raise.
Some paras, who are among the city’s lowest-paid employees, say this raise isn’t enough — particularly amid uncertainty about what schools will look like during the pandemic.
by | Jul 9, 2020 10:52 am | Comments (3)
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Carolyn Ross-Lee” New Haven ready to tackle change.
Supported by grants from the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, the New Haven public school system will launch two new programs aimed at increasing the number of Latinx and African-American teachers as well as promoting awareness of racial biases among school administrators.
Continue reading ‘School System Gets Grants To Tackle Diversity, Bias’
by | Jul 8, 2020 4:16 pm | Comments (25)
With “remote” learning in-house in separate rooms, with paras.
by | Jul 8, 2020 12:22 pm | Comments (14)
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Lennell Williams’ 7th-grade history class at Mauro-Sheridan days before the March shutdown: Will state give city the help it needs to return?
Gov. Lamont released his plan to reopen Connecticut schools one day before the New Haven Public Schools released a first draft of our Road Map to Reopening, an ambitious commitment to make students’ physical, social, and emotional wellbeing “our highest priority.” The recommendations project a new direction for our schools centered on community building, culturally responsive practices, and authentic, performance-based assessment — in addition to developing equitable working models for distance and hybrid learning (combining in-person and remote) for as long as we are grappling with the pandemic. The Road Map was developed via a collaborative process with educators, families, administrators, and city officials over two months, and is now posted here for broader community input and feedback.
Continue reading ‘Opinion: Guv Blindsided New Haven’s “Road Map” To Schools Reopening’
by | Jul 6, 2020 9:52 am | Comments (37)
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Albert Ko: No “one size fits all.”
Children are fairly safe from Covid-19. What is less clear is whether they will spread the disease to adults if schools fully reopen in the fall.
So said public health experts as New Haven Public Schools prepare to follow state guidance to host every child every day in the fall.
Continue reading ‘Experts: Children At Low Risk In Reopening’
by | Jul 2, 2020 6:14 pm | Comments (13)
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Youth-led march on police headquarters.
(Opinion) The last several weeks have seen an outpouring of energy from America’s youth. Furious about police brutality and systemic racism, young people have taken to the streets in protest. On June 5, a youth-led protest in New Haven drew an estimated 5,000 attendees, and saw enormous participation from high school students like us. We witnessed firsthand as hundreds of people our age marched, chanted, waved signs, and demanded social justice.
by | Jul 2, 2020 12:09 pm | Comments (3)
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Chief Operating Officer Tom Ariola, pre-Covid.
As administrators scramble to figure out what school will look like in the fall, the Hamden Board of Education entered the 2020 – 2021 fiscal year with a host of uncertainties, and with about $2 million in cuts.
by | Jul 1, 2020 2:43 pm | Comments (12)
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Ricardo Rodriguez: We helped prevent arrests.
Ricardo Rodriguez believes that policing can change for the better — with cops remaining in schools.
by | Jun 30, 2020 6:24 pm | Comments (21)
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Protests against last year’s proposal to cut teaching jobs.
High school elective options will not shrink. Kindergarten class sizes will not grow. Families relying on New Haven Public Schools childcare for their preschoolers before and after school, though, will need to find another option.
by | Jun 29, 2020 10:07 pm | Comments (13)
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New Haven will pay its school bus contractor $1.5 million less than normal for time the buses were idle during the pandemic — but more than they should, according to some Board of Education members.
Continue reading ‘1st Student Gets $7M For Not Driving Kids’
by | Jun 28, 2020 2:55 pm | Comments (1)
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Anthony Fiore: You can make a change as a high schooler.
Anthony Fiore needed perseverance during the Covid-19 pandemic to collect the signatures he needed for his election as student representative to the Board of Education.
Continue reading ‘Student Persists To Join Pandemic-Era Board of Ed’
by | Jun 26, 2020 4:32 pm | Comments (4)
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Student Selena Erata and her mother, center, with some of the nursery school’s teachers.
United Community Nursery School, a beloved, social justice-oriented institution that has lived on Temple Street in New Haven since the ‘60s, will be shutting down due to Covid-19-related financial woes.
Continue reading ‘United Community Nursery School Closes Due To Pandemic’
by | Jun 26, 2020 12:12 pm | Comments (3)
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An end-of-year celebration at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School.
New Haven is changing, but school zones aren’t. This makes some schools nearly impossible to get into through the lottery system.
The fix is redistricting, Magnet School Assistant Program Coordinator Michele Bonanno told the Board of Alders Education. No such fix is currently being planned.
The occasion was a review of this year’s lottery process results.
Continue reading ‘Lottery Concerns Highlight Outdated School Zones’
by | Jun 25, 2020 8:14 pm | Comments (37)
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Superintendent Tracey at Riverside Academy graduation.
• City schools pivot to governor’s call for full fall reopening.
• Now where will we find all those face masks?
by | Jun 24, 2020 2:04 pm | Comments (1)
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Mia Edmonds-Duff (left) reads to Ross-Woodward fourth graders.
Now that Iline Tracey is officially superintendent of New Haven Public Schools, she is beginning to assemble the team who will mold the district’s curricula, technology policies and school operations under her tenure.
Continue reading ‘3 Principals Named As Tracey Assembles Executive Team’
by | Jun 24, 2020 12:37 pm | Comments (3)
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The Zoom meeting filled fast Tuesday evening with about 15 Wilbur Cross students — half the cast from Lights Up Drama Club‘s spring production of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. The students had gathered together virtually for the online ceremony for the Halo Awards, for excellence in high school theater across the state of Connecticut. Their production of How to Succeed had been nominated in five categories. It would win two.
by | Jun 23, 2020 7:31 pm | Comments (6)
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ULA members, including founder John Lugo (below), celebrate outside of the soon-to-be-renamed Columbus Academy.
John Lugo and a dozen fellow local immigrant rights activists gathered at a familiar site for an unfamiliar occasion.
After 18 years of protests, advocacy, and historical consciousness raising at the corner of Grand Avenue and Blatchley Avenue, the Unidad Latina en Acción organizers turned out to celebrate the Board of Education’s decision to rename Christopher Columbus Family Academy.
by | Jun 23, 2020 4:30 pm | Comments (4)
Josie Jacob-Dolan’s project: working on a process that converts greenhouse gases themselves into energy.
What are doctors looking at in an MRI? Can researchers put an elephant in one? Are renewable versions of methanol as powerful in cars as gasoline?
Teens posed these questions to Yale University graduate students during what has become a weekly online series called Exploring Science.
by | Jun 22, 2020 11:30 pm | Comments (38)
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2018 protest unofficially renames Columbus Family Academy, with blood on hands of papier maché Columbus.
The Board of Education voted overwhelmingly in support of removing Christopher Columbus’s name from a Fair Haven K‑8 school — as well as from an October holiday on the district’s calendar — in the city’s latest reckoning with the 15th-century explorer’s violent legacy.
by | Jun 22, 2020 4:07 pm | Comments (4)
Heather Staker and Michael B. Horn
Students younger than 5 should spend no more than an hour a day looking at a computer screen or tablet. High schoolers should have no more than three hours a day of screen time.
A New Haven Public Schools draft plan offer that and other guidance for how to conduct classes in the fall as the Covid-19 pandemic continues.
by | Jun 22, 2020 3:59 pm | Comments (7)
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A 2018 protest unofficially renames Christopher Columbus Family Academy after a Quinnipiac chief.
In the wake of city and neighborhood decisions to remove the Wooster Square Christopher Columbus statue, Fair Haven parents, teachers, administrators and community members have penned a letter to the Board of Education. The letter asks the board to rename Christopher Columbus Family Academy, celebrate Indigenous Peoples Month instead of Columbus Day, and revise history curricula.
Continue reading ‘Dear Board Of Ed: Celebrate Our History, Not Genocide’
by | Jun 22, 2020 1:10 pm | Comments (0)
The Parks Commission gave approval for Common Ground High School to build a a secure, permanent out-of-doors structure, with fresh air blowing through, and large enough for a class all to be under the roof.
Continue reading ‘Common Ground Wins OK To Build New Pavilion’
by | Jun 19, 2020 4:32 pm | Comments (3)
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Chrstian DeLeon Marrero.
Eighteen students got diplomas Friday at a school designed for kids in danger of not making it that far. And each one had a story.
by | Jun 19, 2020 2:44 pm | Comments (3)
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Cross grad Atziri Rodriguez, who earned biliteracy seal on top of APs.
Over 140 seniors walked across New Haven graduation stages this year with diplomas certifying that they are proficient in multiple languages.
Continue reading ‘# Of Officially Bilingual Graduates Tripled’