by | Jun 19, 2020 10:38 am | Comments (1)
Emily Hays Photo
Hillhouse Principal Glen Worthy (at right): This class is fearless.
Athletic champions, gun control advocates and future nurses and lawyers walked across the temporary stage near James Hillhouse High School, all united by their resilience through hardship.
This was the theme speakers and students kept returning to as 157 Hillhouse seniors celebrated their coronavirus-altered graduation.
by | Jun 19, 2020 10:25 am | Comments (1)
Sophie Sonnenfeld Photo
Over a hundred cars decked out with balloons, paint, and signs rolled through an end-of-year drive-through Thursday afternoon for students at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School (MASH).
Faculty and staff lined the perimeter of the parking lot behind the school greeting student families as they passed.
Continue reading ‘Bubbles, Balloons Fill The Air For Mauro-Sheridan Drive-Through’
by | Jun 18, 2020 4:11 pm | Comments (2)
Courtney Luciana photos
A mobile stage dripped Cross Pride with red and white flower bouquets, balloons, and banners to celebrate the graduation day for 363 Wilbur Cross High School seniors — and a beloved administrator who is retiring after nearly four decades.
Continue reading ‘Cross Says Good-by To 363 Seniors —& 1 Beloved Administrator’
by | Jun 18, 2020 9:52 am | Comments (2)
Sophie Sonnenfeld Photo
Ciara Ortiz Diaz (right) with Principal Rebecca Gratz.
For eight minutes and forty-six seconds, Sound School Valedictorian Ciara Ortiz Diaz read the names of 212 black people killed by police in the U.S.
Continue reading ‘With BLM Tribute, Sound School Drive-Through Graduates 77’
by | Jun 17, 2020 8:40 pm | Comments (2)
Courtney Luciana Photos
Rowan Huber and Stephen Hankey at Wednesday’s commencement.
Cowbells rung, gold glitter was thrown, prom dresses were worn after all, and students were riding large (in limos and party buses) to graduation for Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School drive-through commencement ceremony for its 150 graduates.
by | Jun 17, 2020 8:39 pm | Comments (2)
Courtney Luciana photo
Seventy-five Engineering and Science University Magnet School students walked the stage at Lighthouse Point Park to receive their diplomas in the last of six drive-by high school graduations held over two days.
Continue reading ‘ESUMS Graduates 75, Celebrates Close Bonds’
by | Jun 17, 2020 5:26 pm | Comments (2)
Laura Glesby Photo
Jaylen Edwards learned how much he loved going to East Rock Community Magnet School when, after the pandemic struck, he and his classmates had to stay home.
Continue reading ‘55 Graduate From East Rock Community Magnet School’
by | Jun 17, 2020 12:12 pm | Comments (1)
Courtney Luciana Photo
Career Regional High staff arrived an hour and a half before the school’s drive-by commencement exercises at Lighthouse Point Park Wednesday morning. They put up purple and yellow balloons (the school colors). Using grant money, they had also hired a photographer so each senior could receive an 8‑by-10 photo in the mail.
As each of the 145 graduating seniors stepped off stage, they were handed a single, yellow rose.
“We wanted to make this day special since it’s not the traditional graduation ceremony,” said Principal Zakia Parrish. “We wanted to make sure the students know we appreciate them and wanted to celebrate them. There were also seniors who participated in the planning. We wanted to make sure they got the send-off they deserve.”
by | Jun 16, 2020 6:02 pm | Comments (5)
Maya McFadden Photos
Paolo Cepeda’s family cheers as he takes the stage.
Metro grads Jaylin Davis (top); Kayla Green, repping her college; Howard-bound aspiring attorney E’moni Cotten.
(Updated) New Haven’s graduating high school seniors got to walk onstage after all to receive their diplomas — even if they needed a lift to get there.
by | Jun 16, 2020 3:40 pm | Comments (1)
Following is the text of the valedictory address delivered Wednesday by Metropolitan Business Academy’s Adrian Huq (pictured), who plans to major in environmental studies at Tufts University.
by | Jun 16, 2020 10:29 am | Comments (3)
Zoom
Assistant Supt. Keisha Redd-Hannans: We weren’t taught how to teach during pandemics.
New Haven teachers will have more formal guidance on how to handle distance learning this fall than when the Covid-19 pandemic started, along with helping kids wrestle with trauma, if all goes according to the district’s latest plan.
by | Jun 16, 2020 9:54 am | Comments (0)
Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Childhood School staff wanted a way to say goodbye to a school year that has been turned upside down by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Principal Monique Brunson.
Continue reading ‘Mayo Bids Kids Goodbye With Reverse Parade’
by | Jun 12, 2020 3:19 pm | Comments (3)
Airiqa Hoheb hit on a discovery: Police spend seven times longer in training on how to shoot than on how not to shoot.
by | Jun 11, 2020 6:16 pm | Comments (3)
Emily Hays Photos
High school seniors in Thursday’s “reverse parade.”
Banner flown over city.
A pandemic necessity may have just birthed a new tradition for city schools.
by | Jun 10, 2020 3:02 pm | Comments (0)
Contributed Photos
A little rain didn’t stop the staff at King/Robinson Interdistrict Magnet: An IB Stem School from celebrating their students! On Friday June 5, the staff lined the school property for a reverse parade.
by | Jun 10, 2020 2:53 pm | Comments (0)
Nora Grace-Flood Photo
Faculty at end-of-year celebration.
“It’s in my blood; I have to be a teacher,” said paraprofessional Shannon Prevost as she waved to students and families driving by West Woods Elementary Wednesday to celebrate the end of the year.
by | Jun 10, 2020 10:21 am | Comments (33)
Thomas Breen Photo
Board of Education student member Lihame Arouna at Friday’s Black Lives Matter protest.
The Board of Education aims to have an answer by August on whether school resource officers will continue to walk the hallways of New Haven schools.
by | Jun 9, 2020 4:04 pm | Comments (2)
Kristina Crivellone’s schedule for her scattered first graders.
Kushe Darden and Kaleb, age 7.
Kushe Darden’s son is supposed to be at school for the majority of the single father’s 47 to 70-hour workweek. Now, with pandemic-era distance learning in place, Darden is responsible for whether his 7‑year-old Kaleb learns anything on any given day.
by | Jun 9, 2020 3:24 pm | Comments (16)
Zoom
Iline Tracey.
Iline Tracey will transition from interim superintendent to official superintendent in July, the New Haven Public Schools Board of Education announced on Monday evening.
Continue reading ‘Tracey Officially Appointed Superintendent’
by | Jun 8, 2020 5:30 pm | Comments (0)
Nora Grace-Flood Photo
Second-grade teacher Tori Luageni.
“I’m a proud parent of Church Street School!” Family Engagement Coordinator Hector Velazquez declared Monday at a drive-through graduation ceremony he organized.
Continue reading ‘Church Street School Celebrates 47 Graduates’
by | Jun 4, 2020 4:01 pm | Comments (2)
Nora Grace-Flood
Principal Lorenzo on the right
Helen Street Elementary School faculty and staff gathered by the school’s front steps on June fourth for a socially distanced drive-by graduation ceremony to celebrate its sixth-grade class.
Continue reading ‘Helen Street School Holds Drive-Through Graduation’
by | Jun 1, 2020 5:26 pm | Comments (0)
Paul Bass Photo
Families drove their kids back to Edgewood School Monday — honking their horns as they passed teachers and other staffers like social worker Rosalie Febus, special ed teacher Julia King, and Youth Development Coordinator Travis Jones (pictured).
by | May 27, 2020 5:28 pm | Comments (6)
Zoom
After passing a budget that many members lauded for making real monetary steps on equity-related initiatives, the Hamden Board of Education is now facing cuts that may require it to put those treasured initiatives, still in their infancy, on the chopping block.
Continue reading ‘Hamden BOE Eyes Layoffs, Cuts To Equity Programming’
by | May 27, 2020 5:16 pm | Comments (4)
Paul Bass Photo
They may not have crowds of well-wishers filling bleachers and yelling their names, but high school seniors will have “some form” of in-person graduation ceremony this year.
by | May 26, 2020 10:01 pm | Comments (4)
Emily Hays Photo
Outside Hillhouse High School.
Interim Superintendent Iline Tracey and her team have decided not to risk opening up New Haven public school buildings this summer for classes.
The jury is still out on if and how many summer camps will be allowed on school grounds.