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Mar 10, 2020 7:59 am
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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.
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Mar 9, 2020 3:56 pm
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Simon Obas: Up for pre-disciplinary hearing.
An oversight board told the Achievement First charter network to continue looking into allegations that Amistad High School’s principal misreported student suspensions.
UNH’s Dan May at Omni confab: Virtual dance class not so simple.
Connecticut universities are preparing for possible shutdowns with the spread of the new coronavirus, while grappling with the fact that modern universities are homes for many students.
That planning, and the worries that accompany it, emerged at a regional conference in New Haven where the virus overtook other agenda items — and revealed an older generation far more wrought up than their younger charges about the situation.
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Mar 5, 2020 2:11 pm
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Keivonna Austin: Wishes her two daughters could attend same school.
Canvassers will knock on doors in four neighborhoods this spring to find out why parents haven’t been signing their kids up for preschool — while slots remain open.
Ready to March: Jesse Turner & Robert Goodrich at WNHH FM.
Jesse Turner is ready to don his bright green fluorescent sneakers and his beat-up “walking man hat” to march for educational justice in Connecticut — and he’s inviting everyone else who cares about fairness in our schools to join him.
Juniors Riley Delucia and Elina Murarka in Environmental Science class.
(Opinion) Every school day, thousands of New Haven high school students -– myself included -– head off for school in the dark. Classes at Wilbur Cross and Co-op begin at 7:30 a.m., and Hillhouse starts five minutes later.
In order to make it to school on time, students wake up well before sunrise. Among New Haven policy makers, there does not seem to be any motivation to change this situation.
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Mar 3, 2020 4:38 pm
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The city-owned, nonprofit-managed Canal Dock Boathouse.
Alders unanimously signed off on a new 10-year, $10-per-square-foot lease between the University of New Haven and the city that will allow the West Haven-based educational institution to build out new labs, classroom space, and public programs at the Canal Dock Boathouse on Long Wharf.
The lease will also give the financially struggling nonprofit that manages the city-owned building a reliable source of income.
The halls of the two-story brick building at 2105 State St. in Hamden will once again be filled with students and Christian congregants after the Christian academy that once occupied it closed its doors two years ago. “A Church for the City” is moving … to the suburbs.
With funds for equity among PTAs, curriculum rewrites, and a new academic summer camp, the Hamden Board of Education’s Finance Committee has advanced a budget that includes either a 2.27 or 3.6 percent increase over last year’s, depending on how you do the accounting.
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Feb 26, 2020 5:01 pm
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Sixty students from St. Francis & St. Rose of Lima School had an icy start to their morning Wednesday, getting in a skating trip to the Ralph Walker Skating Rink before it temporarily closes mid-March.
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Feb 25, 2020 5:31 pm
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AG William Tong at Hillhouse.
After announcing a multi-state probe into Juul Labs, the electronic cigarette manufacturer that’s been faulted for creating a public-health crisis, Attorney General William Tong sat down with high-schoolers in New Haven Tuesday to hear their take on the “epidemic.”
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Feb 25, 2020 9:00 am
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Matt Wilcox: Hold off on cuts, for now.
After a two-hour debate about what a “realistic” budget looks like — and when would be the right time to adjust it — the Board of Education voted to request an extra $10.8 million in education spending from Mayor Justin Elicker’s first citywide budget.
Responding to a local effort by parents who don’t want their kids to participate in high-stakes testing, school board members say they’re interested in creating a formal “opt-out” policy.
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Feb 21, 2020 8:56 am
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A model of the new middle school plan, with the addition in light gray.
After the Hamden Legislative Council approved bonding for an $11.2 million addition to Hamden Middle School in June, the project’s architect has come up with a new architectural model that might add to the pricetag.
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Feb 20, 2020 1:24 pm
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Kaila Bonden and Kai-Ona Spears at A Day in the Life of a Band.
The staff and faculty of High School in the Community (HSC) took a step back and left the leading to the students all-day for what they call “Fly Choice Friday.”
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Feb 20, 2020 9:17 am
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Mayor Elicker (at right, with Yesenia Rivera): “Hens are coming home to roost” after years of irresponsible city budgeting.
Almost certain to be flat-funded once again, the city’s public schools are facing another year of drastic budget reductions.
The latest round of cost-cutting could reduce the number of high-school electives, trim the length of the school year and pack school buses — to get only halfway through the budget shortfall the district will likely have to close next school year.
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Thomas Breen |
Feb 19, 2020 1:16 pm
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Career Pathways grads show off pipes from their plumbing project.
The city has landed a $125,000 state grant that will keep the doors open for the sixth year running for an after-school vocational training program designed specifically for at-risk youth.
