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Stored, unavailable science kits.
Elementary school teachers had to skip most science experiments planned so far this year — an unforeseen consequence of budget pressures that led the district to consolidate its buildings.
by | Jan 21, 2020 3:20 pm | Comments (0)
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Hamden Hall Head of School Bob Izzo.
Hamden Hall and the University of New Haven have partnered up to create a new three-credit college-level course in business analytics for high school students.
by | Jan 20, 2020 8:57 am | Comments (17)
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Krystal Augustine shares ESUMS experience at parent forum.
Jairo Acevedo, with his son.
Jairo Acevedo is looking to buy a house near a good public school for his son. He searched online for information and found he didn’t trust it.
He was among 60 school-shopping parents who showed up to a forum Thursday night seeking guidance as they negotiate a confusing and rattling annual rite in New Haven.
by | Jan 16, 2020 1:09 pm | Comments (22)
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Board of Education President Darnell Goldson.
Board of Education President Darnell Goldson is revving up the revenue bandwagon, with one proviso — that New Haven schools beware philanthropic “gift horses.”
by | Jan 15, 2020 5:46 pm | Comments (1)
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District Chief Operating Officer Tom Ariola.
Last week, the Hamden Board of Education’s computers were shut down after a virus entered the system. The district announced Tuesday that it had been a “malware” attack.
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Christopher Suggs, Morgan State-bound.
Christopher Suggs’ mom interrupted her college dream to give birth to him and raise him with the attention he deserved.
Seventeen years later, Christopher is completing the dream — now that his top choice for college, Morgan State University, has accepted him for admission this coming fall.
by | Jan 8, 2020 1:00 pm | Comments (0)
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At the Dunbar Hill School.
While Hamden sifts through the changing sands of its foiled West Woods School reconstruction project, the town is now looking into another urgent fix to keep water off of kids’ heads: at the Dunbar Hill School.
by | Jan 8, 2020 8:54 am | Comments (20)
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Darnell Goldson.
(Opinion) Note: Darnell Goldson is president of the New Haven Board of Education.
New Haven doesn’t suffer from a spending deficit; it suffers from a funding deficit.
by | Jan 3, 2020 8:39 am | Comments (6)
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Daniel Hunt.
As a part-time student support worker at Engineering & Science University Magnet School (ESUMS), Daniel Hunt always kept his eye on one high-schooler.The student had been hanging out with gang members, and gotten arrested. Hunt pulled the teen aside to let him know it still wasn’t too late to turn things around.
by | Jan 2, 2020 8:36 am | Comments (2)
As part of latest push to improve reading in public schools.
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Mario Aguilar Castañon, seated at center, with friends Monday night back in New Haven.
A Wilbur Cross junior rang in the new year back home with friends — hours after his release from federal detention in a case that became a cause celebre for his fellow schoolmates and for immigration-rights reformers.
by | Dec 24, 2019 7:51 am | Comments (8)
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Cop accountability protesters shut down College Street in April.
Climate emergency activists outside City Hall in August.
In 12 months of near-constant protests, New Haveners took to the streets — and to City Hall, the Board of Education, public parks, rezoning meetings, out-of-state immigrant detention centers, the Yale Bowl, and many, many more places besides.
These demonstrators sometimes won what they asked for. They always sparked debate. And they seemed to herald a new era of vibrant, disruptive participatory democracy at a time when civic unrest has swept the country and the globe.
Continue reading ‘2019’s Perpetual Protests Produced Results’
by | Dec 23, 2019 8:04 pm | Comments (2)
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Protesters outside 121 Elm St. Monday afternoon. Below: Kica Matos and Miguel Castro.
Dozens of Wilbur Cross High School students and local immigrant rights activists rallied outside a downtown courthouse, and inside City Hall, in support of an 18-year-old classmate who’s been detained outside Boston for over 100 days and is facing deportation.
by | Dec 19, 2019 9:00 am | Comments (5)
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Dacia Toll: Best option we have.
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Middle school’s current home.
By next summer, the Achievement First charter network will vacate and sell the Newhallville building currently housing half of Elm City College Preparatory Middle School, according to a plan approved Wednesday night.
by | Dec 17, 2019 4:49 pm | Comments (7)
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SOM Dean Kerwin Charles (at center) with other members of the Partnership for Connecticut’s board at Monday’s meeting.
Aspiring school superintendents will soon pour into Yale’s School of Management for lessons in how to close a budget deficit, retain staff, and deal with journalists.
by | Dec 16, 2019 8:28 pm | Comments (8)
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The Partnership for Connecticut’s board meets on Monday morning.
If you’re a school superintendent, non-profit director, micro-finance lender, business executive, city mayor or academic researcher, a new public-private partnership wants to hear from you about how $300 million could decrease the number of high-school dropouts.
Public-school teachers and students? State social workers? Prison inmates? As an afterthought, the billionaire-backed state education initiative said you too can send in your ideas.
by | Dec 16, 2019 4:35 pm | Comments (1)
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Hamden’s school bus number 79 was driving East on Putnam Avenue Thursday afternoon. It looked like it would get to its stop on Augur Street by 3:08 p.m. — nine minutes ahead of schedule.
by | Dec 16, 2019 8:24 am | Comments (21)
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Entrance to school wood shop, boarded up since February.
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A hole in the bathroom wall.
The air conditioning fried, the soap dispensers broke, and an entrance is boarded up — in a brand-new school building that technically isn’t even finished yet.
by | Dec 12, 2019 1:51 pm | Comments (2)
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Cross students hear an update about Mario Aguilar’s asylum claims at a Thursday morning assembly.
A New Haven high-schooler will be stuck in federal detention for at least another week, after an immigration judge held off on issuing a decision that could lead to his deportation.
Continue reading ‘Court Delay Keeps Cross Student In ICE Lockup’
by | Dec 11, 2019 3:20 pm | Comments (3)
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Mayor Harp with Scott Jones, on the auditorium dais at Hillhouse.
In the era before New Haven Promise,which was founded in 2010, Scott Jones graduated from Hillhouse High School. Make that in 1984. Then he went to University of Connecticut in 1988, and from there to UConn’s Law School, which he finished in 1992.
He’s now a senior assistant attorney with the state public defenders office.
It took him nearly 20 years to repay his college loans.
His three daughters will have it easier, thanks to New Haven Promise.
by | Dec 10, 2019 11:23 pm | Comments (2)
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Wilbur Cross High School students headed up the stairs to the Track 14 platform at Union Station Tuesday afternoon to embark on a field trip of sorts — to seek justice.
by | Dec 10, 2019 4:40 pm | Comments (19)
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Teacher Nataliya Braginsky talks through primary sources.
Alyssa Washington couldn’t stop thinking about the multi-colored map of New Haven on her classroom wall: the narrow green around Prospect Hill and Westville; the swathed yellow, like a waning moon, from Beaver Hills to City Point; the foreboding red around Dixwell and Fair Haven — each section of the city walled in by fixed black lines.
by | Dec 10, 2019 8:44 am | Comments (11)
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Hyclis Williams addresses school board Monday night.
Working conditions for teacher’s aides have been ignored for too long in New Haven, especially as vacancies force them to lead classes they’re not certified to teach on their own, the newly elected president of the paraprofessionals union said in her first message to the school board.
by | Dec 9, 2019 2:14 pm | Comments (1)
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Jim Pascarella entered Hamden politics because of a school construction project. Then, when he served a six-week stint as mayor, he dealt with a crisis in relations with Quinnipiac University.
Now, as Pasacrella (pictured above) steps aside from town politics, both of those are again hot topics.
Continue reading ‘Retiring Pol’s Lessons: Get Along. Be Transparent’
by | Dec 5, 2019 1:06 pm | Comments (0)
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Mayor Harp Wednesday as “Miss Kendra.”
(Natalie Judd submitted the following article.)
Mayor Harp visited a first-grade class at Strong Elementary School Wednesday, playing the role of “Miss Kendra for the students.”
The mayor recitedMiss Kendra’s list with the students, and read them letters from Miss Kendra that respond to some of the worries they have shared in their letters to Miss Kendra about family, gunshots, fire drills, and their celebrations about awards and their love of school activities.