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endawnis Spears, with other speakers at forum.
Teachers feel unprepared to buck the way schools have taught about race and culture, gender and sexuality. But they can start with small changes as they push the district to do more, activists said.
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Lachelle Hall was on the march Thursday with hundreds of other New Haveners trading “excuses” for a second shot at a better life.
by | Sep 24, 2019 4:13 pm | Comments (5)
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Students at a “literacy intervention” with tutor Toni Lucian.
Can an extra half-hour each day make a difference in teaching kids to read?
Based on what’s happening at Clinton Avenue School — which was once a struggling K‑8 school in Fair Haven and is now becoming an instructional model for the district — the answer seems to be yes.
Continue reading ‘Clinton Ave. School Makes Time For Reading’
by | Sep 23, 2019 9:07 pm | Comments (10)
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Board member Tamiko Jackson-McArthur (center): A huge win.
New Haven will be able to add 700 more spots for city residents next year at its magnet schools thanks to a deal with the state.
Under the deal, the state agreed to let New Haven fill every spot in its inter-district magnets, and the city will withdraw a request to charge tuition to suburban towns.
by | Sep 20, 2019 12:09 pm | Comments (2)
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Veronica Douglas-Givan.
When Veronica Douglas-Givan leads a “No Excuses” march next week in a crusade to get more adults their high-school diplomas, she’ll be looking to reach more people like Jimmy.
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Adrian Huq in action.
Adrian Huq has translated a lifelong interest in a greener world into organizing fellow students to help save the planet.
Continue reading ‘Student Activists Ready Climate March, “Die-In”’
by | Sep 18, 2019 9:50 pm | Comments (2)
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A First Student bus drives through Fair Haven Heights in 2017.
Six elementary school students were taken to the hospital after a car collided head-on with their school bus.
by | Sep 17, 2019 2:35 pm | Comments (9)
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State Rep. Toni Walker: Suspects school poverty counts.
More New Haven families are sliding into poverty — at least according to a count of students that state officials are now second-guessing.
by | Sep 17, 2019 11:50 am | Comments (15)
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Larry Conaway: Back from a short retirement.
Barely three months into retirement, Larry Conaway, the former principal at Riverside Opportunity High School, is ready to get back into devoting his time to public education.
by | Sep 16, 2019 10:33 pm | Comments (3)
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About a dozen students at King-Robinson got packages of expired string cheese for lunch.
by | Sep 16, 2019 10:15 pm | Comments (2)
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Students play in the field across from Truman School in October 2018.
A three-year-old went missing for 10 minutes after walking off his school’s campus in the Hill.
by | Sep 16, 2019 7:19 am | Comments (10)
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With retired Sgt. Shafiq Abdusabbur at the unveiling.
With grandsons Wesley and Wilbert Frazier.
During ceremony, legendary principal urges adults to volunteer.
by | Sep 13, 2019 12:38 pm | Comments (9)
Hamden doesn’t “begrudge” New Haven for seeking to shore up its finances, but doing so by charging suburbs tuition for educating their students would “devastate” Hamden.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Opposes New Haven’s Magnet Tuition Quest’
by | Sep 13, 2019 7:37 am | Comments (7)
Nijija-Ife Waters: Food allergies can be a life-or-death matter.
Students received a granola bar in their breakfast trays that a parent leader says could’ve been a health hazard for students with nut allergies.
by | Sep 12, 2019 7:50 am | Comments (37)
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Transit chief Fred Till faces crowd Wednesday night. Below: Jasmine Reed, who lost her job responding to daughter’s bus change.
Officials are now dealing with thousands of complaints about last-minute school-bus route changes — and might not get through the backlog until month’s end.
Outraged parents reported going into personal debt or, in one case, losing a job trying to get their kids to school.
by | Sep 10, 2019 7:42 am | Comments (13)
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Students at Martinez School, which saw 10-point gains.
Standardized test scores continued their upward rise at New Haven’s elementary schools last year, though most kids still aren’t at grade level.
by | Sep 5, 2019 8:21 am | Comments (30)
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Lisa Mack and Carol Birks answer questions at special meeting.
Even after last year’s budget cuts slashed the teaching force, more teachers fled to other school districts this year, leaving the district’s human resources office scrambling to catch up.
by | Sep 4, 2019 2:36 pm | Comments (1)
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Karen Kaplan, Ned Lamont, Jack Gaffney, and the hole Gaffney just smashed.
Gov. Ned Lamont held a yellow sledgehammer Wednesday morning at Hamden High, but he did not swing it. Rather, as governors do, he delegated that job to one of the 35 Hamden High students who aim to graduate high school with an associate’s degree in the new Hamden Engineering Careers Academy (HECA).
Continue reading ‘Lamont Hammers Open Hamden High STEM Program’
by | Sep 4, 2019 8:01 am | Comments (4)
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Dozens of parents wait to speak with an administrator about busing last week.
Superintendent Carol Birks apologizes at Tuesday’s meeting.
School buses this year are driving by more than half the places they used to stop, as the district eliminated nearly 4,500 pick-up points just before school started.
by | Sep 3, 2019 7:37 am | Comments (9)
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Lincoln-Bassett students return for the first day of school last week..
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First graders at Church Street School in Hamden.
At Church Street School, a K‑6 elementary school in southern Hamden, roughly 16 of 20 students in every classroom are black and Hispanic — a figure that’s so out of whack with the rest of the town that the state has demanded an immediate remedy to racially desegregate its students.
Two miles down Dixwell Avenue, at Lincoln-Bassett, a K‑6 elementary school in New Haven’s Newhallville neighborhood, roughly 19 of 20 students in every classroom are black and Hispanic — a figure that’s so out of whack with the rest of the region that the state won’t do anything about it.
by | Aug 30, 2019 7:25 am | Comments (8)
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Rosalind Garcia and Daniel Hunt welcome students back to Lincoln-Bassett on Thursday morning.
Jai-dyne and Quran.
Thousands of students woke up on Thursday morning for the start of another school year, encouraged to resume their studies even if their bus stops and teacher assignments weren’t quite finalized yet.
Continue reading ‘School Resumes With High Hopes, Longer Walks, More Subs’
by | Aug 29, 2019 12:04 pm | Comments (2)
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School board candidates Chris Daur, Roxana Walker-Canton and Gary Walsh at Wednesday’s forum.
From the hairstyles of African-American girls to the city’s tax rate to guns in schools, candidates for local office in Hamden repeatedly touched on the underlying issues roiling the town – and the nation – ahead of the Sept. 10 Democratic town primary and the Nov. 5 general election at an education forum Wednesday night.
Continue reading ‘Schools Forum Targets Diversity, Inclusion’
by | Aug 29, 2019 7:49 am | Comments (5)
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Toni Harp and Justin Elicker at pre-K forum.
A locally run charter preschool, supported by the school district? Or more non-profit childcare centers, supported by well-off parents’ tuition?
Mayoral candidates presented those two ideas for how New Haven can expand access to a limited number of pre-school spots at a first-ever forum on early childhood care and education.
Continue reading ‘Candidates Diverge On Early Childhood Ed Fixes’
by | Aug 28, 2019 5:24 pm | Comments (31)
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Parents rush school HQ on Wednesday.
Jennifer Cruz-Chilel.
Jennifer Cruz-Chilel burst into tears Wednesday as she walked out of the elevator at the school district’s headquarters.
She joined dozens of exasperated parents crashing 54 Meadow St. as they learned about last-minute changes to bus routes when school opens Thursday — changes that confused and left them concerned about being able to get their kids to school.
by | Aug 27, 2019 3:07 pm | Comments (13)
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Birks at kick-off: Welcome to a new school year!
Rallying her team two days before a new school year starts, Superintendent Carol Birks vowed Tuesday to have all 3rd-graders reading proficiently, all 10th-graders on track to graduate, and every other student meeting their growth targets.