by | Mar 27, 2020 10:28 am | Comments (0)
Because of the Covid-19 crisis, parents who entered the School Choice Lottery will have to wait until at least April 14 to find out where their kids will go next academic year.
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by | Mar 26, 2020 7:17 pm | Comments (13)
Yale University has partnered with two local philanthropic foundations to create a new Yale Community for New Haven Fund with the goal of raising $5 million from students, faculty and staff.
The university has already put $1 million into the fund, and will match every dollar given by Yale community members up to the $5 million goal.
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by | Mar 26, 2020 10:22 am | Comments (10)
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Students and buses at Hamden’s Church Street School.
While teachers can count on their contracts to keep them paid during the Covid-19 shutdown, bus drivers in Hamden have been left without a paycheck, and with few clues about whether they will remain unpaid.
Thanks to different contract language, New Haven’s drivers are OK for now.
by | Mar 25, 2020 8:19 pm | Comments (0)
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Bulletin board inside Booker T. Washington Academy.
The executive director of a New Haven charter school is urging parents to check themselves and their children for symptoms of Covid-19 following confirmation that a student contracted the coronavirus.
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by | Mar 24, 2020 3:49 pm | Comments (10)
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Board President Yesenia Rivera: Endpoint unclear.
While schools are closed to prevent the spread of Covid-19, school employees will continue to get their paychecks. This includes part-time employees, at least through mid-April.
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by | Mar 23, 2020 10:16 pm | Comments (11)
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Some 120 people joined the Board of Education on Zoom for the Monday meeting.
The majority of the members of the New Haven Board of Education voted Monday to support Mayor Justin Elicker’s decision to use Career High School to house homeless people who come down with mild versions of Covid-19.
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by | Mar 23, 2020 5:26 pm | Comments (2)
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Families wait outside as school administration keep the amount of people in the lobby area limited.
James Hillhouse High School parents and students responded on short notice Monday to pick up Chromebooks to gain access to online schoolwork while New Haven Public Schools remain indefinitely closed due to the spread of COVID-19.
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by | Mar 20, 2020 12:28 pm | Comments (4)
Promise CEO Patricia Melton Friday on WNHH radio.
Promise New Haven is in business for the long haul — with the help of a new $1.3 million five-year lifeline.
by | Mar 20, 2020 10:33 am | Comments (8)
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Lucile Patton: Can’t afford to retire after 49 years.
Despite putting in 49 years on the job already, Lucile Patton doesn’t know if she’ll ever be able to stop working.
by | Mar 19, 2020 7:40 pm | Comments (0)
Connecticut has asked U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for a waiver to let it skip this school year’s standardized tests and accountability measures.
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by | Mar 19, 2020 7:39 pm | Comments (1)
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The youth education and recreation program LEAP sent in this write-up:
Like everyone in the Greater New Haven area, we at LEAP are having to make big changes during this public health crisis. We want to keep LEAP kids and teens, their families, our neighbors and supporters and everyone else up to date on what we are doing. Following the New Haven Public Schools closure on March 12, LEAP suspended our free after-school programming at our five school sites and our community center.
Next week we will be up and running again, using technology.
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by | Mar 18, 2020 12:37 pm | Comments (1)
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Oliveras.
J. Pierpont Finch is making sparks fly in the boardroom, giving them the old razzle dazzle. He’s got moves. He’s got flair. He’s got charts and buzzwords. The only thing he doesn’t have is a good idea. And the idea he does have, isn’t his. But does that even matter?
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by | Mar 18, 2020 12:34 pm | Comments (4)
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New Haven Climate Movement’s Girls Speak Out for Climate Justice event.
On Monday, March 9, from 4 to 5 p.m, at the courthouse steps at the corner of Elm and Church streets, New Haven Climate Movement held a Girls Speak Out for Climate Justice event to have young women and girls share their thoughts and call for action on the growing climate disaster. Leaders of different youth climate organizations spoke alongside other high school age students. The Speak Out was followed by a social in the Library Performance Space with trivia, food, and educational videos. This event was organized in solidarity with International Women’s Day.
by | Mar 18, 2020 8:28 am | Comments (3)
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Justine Stephan and Betty Alford at John C. Daniels Tuesday.
Justine Stephan and Betty Alford are stepping up as providers in a world turned upside down by the coronavirus pandemic, where schools are no longer places of learning but rather places to prepare and pick-up much needed food for hungry families.
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by | Mar 17, 2020 10:12 am | Comments (3)
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People Get Ready’s Lauren Anderson at work.
Reading hour is in session for hundreds of New Haveners despite the coronavirus.
by | Mar 16, 2020 4:26 pm | Comments (3)
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The hand-off in Hamden …
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… and in Fair Haven.
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Khalilah Dann (with Uriel): Picking up learning materials, not meals.
The effort to feed needy children during indefinite COVID-19-sparked school closings got off to a slow but in some places steady start Monday in New Haven and Hamden.
by | Mar 14, 2020 5:57 pm | Comments (0)
Thirty-seven New Haven public schools and three Hamden public schools will be providing free breakfast and lunch pick-ups starting Monday in an effort to make sure kids don’t go hungry while both systems are closed to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus.
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by | Mar 13, 2020 11:47 am | Comments (2)
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Common Ground 10th graders Eliana Solano and Corey Boyd-Morton listen to visiting artist Kwadwo Adae.
Solano sketches a representation of the coronavirus COVID-19.
Eliana Solano sketched a virus with a diamond-shaped head and insect-like legs next to an Earth on fire, books, dollars and the word “expectations” in big block letters. The drawings partially filled a globe of anxieties and other thoughts held up by a small sketch of Solano herself.
Local artist Kwadwo Adae was warming the Common Ground High School class up for a group art project about climate change and its effects on students’ lives. Adae has visited the class weekly to build up to the project — one of numerous nontraditional, eco-conscious approaches that recently won the school a national award and a state seal of approval.
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by | Mar 12, 2020 4:26 pm | Comments (3)
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The students of the Elm City Robo Squad (Team 558) spent the past weekend battling robots from all over the state and beyond.
by | Mar 12, 2020 4:24 pm | Comments (1)
In two simultaneous releases, one from the mayor’s office and one from the Board of Education, Hamden officials announced that as of Friday, they are closing schools and non-essential town buildings as a preventative measure against coronavirus.
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Parent Francisco Pena (demonstrating sneeze gesture taught at Fair Haven School): Ready to teach his son at home.
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Mayor Elicker, announcing shutdown with Superintendent Tracey: “It’s at times like these that we define what kind of community we are.”
All New Haven public schools, senior centers, and libraries will close indefinitely beginning Friday as part of the city’s latest effort to stem the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
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by | Mar 12, 2020 12:09 pm | Comments (0)
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The fairgrounds: Hey — where did everybody go?
COVID-19 didn’t kill Connecticut’s annual statewide school science fair — but it did push it online, with 200 judges “meeting” 120 high school and middle-school student competitors’ projects on computer screens and video-managers monitoring the action from a second-floor dance studio at Quinnipiac University.
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by | Mar 12, 2020 8:01 am | Comments (1)
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Wilbur Cross High School shooting guard Christian McClease gets some final practice time in Wednesday after school.
Christian McClease practiced his jump shot in the Wilbur Cross High School gymnasium Wednesday — not in preparation for the night’s scheduled state quarterfinals game in Manchester, but rather to get in a few more minutes on the court at the end of a season suddenly cut short by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
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by | Mar 11, 2020 7:36 am | Comments (1)
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From left: Carolina Cudemus, John McKnight and Leslie Meyerhoff Tuesday at the Omni panel.
Wellesley College has identity in its mission statement — to provide an excellent education for women who will make a difference in the world.
But what does an all-female college do when a student’s gender identity changes?
Meanwhile, do cultural houses or other distinct cultural spaces on campuses work for the many identities one student can have?
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by | Mar 10, 2020 7:59 am | Comments (17)
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Superintendent Tracey: Preparing for the “extreme.”
The city’s public schools are taking initial steps to prepare for a shutdown if the coronavirus makes it to New Haven, readying take-home lessons and food supplies for students.
Superintendent Iline Tracey presented those early plans for dealing with COVID-19, as the fast-spreading virus is officially known, to the Board of Education at its Monday night meeting at King-Robinson School.
Continue reading ‘Schools Open For Now; Trips Curtailed; Plans Readied For Meals, Remote Learning’