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Aug 27, 2019 7:27 am
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Board prez Goldson: This doesn’t add up.
New Haven gave the state an inaccurate picture of how much it costs to run the inter-district magnet program, by leaving out the cost of utilities, transportation and other overhead.
So the Board of Education will try again — with better numbers — to win permission to start charging suburban towns for educating their children in city magnet schools.
Toni Harp prefers to eat at Ernie’s rather than Pepe’s, but she’s not looking to stop other pizza-lovers from lining up at the famous Wooster Street restaurant.
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Aug 26, 2019 4:15 pm
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Math Bee winners Melany Catota and Saviour Moccormack.
As she rode the morning bus, Melany Abigail Catota Lopez, a third-grader at Strong School, pulled a stack of pink notecards with multiplication tables out of a plastic baggie. Her teacher had helped her cut them out. She asked a friend to help her go over them.
“But you know them,” the friend told her.
“I know,” Catota said. “I just want to practice them in case.”
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Aug 26, 2019 12:19 pm
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Gary Highsmith.
(Opinion)— New Haven’s mayoral primary has all the makings of a close race. Not only is the race likely to be very close, but it is critically important that African-American voters use our votes wisely. One way in which we can exercise our vote wisely is by resisting the urge to engage in racial identity politics because it is clear to even the most casual observer that doing so has given politicians of all ethnic groups license to take our votes for granted.
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Aug 19, 2019 7:31 am
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Matt Wilcox: We need more information to vote yes.
New Haven has begun the year-long process to charge tuition for the suburban students who come to its inter-district magnet schools — a proposal that could eventually generate at least $4 million annually if it wins needed approvals.
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Aug 16, 2019 12:52 pm
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Rigoberto Escalera, winner of New Haven Promise’s Legacy Award.
Rigoberto Escalera first heard about New Haven Promise as an eighth-grader, during a rally in East Rock School’s cafeteria. At first he worried he might not qualify for its help with college tuition because he’d transferred in from Catholic school just a few years before.
Almost a decade later, Escalera used the Promise scholarship to graduate, debt-free, from Southern Connecticut State University. He plans to stay in New Haven, working as an accountant.
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Aug 14, 2019 3:37 pm
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Darnell Goldson and fellow board members at this week’s meeting.
“I don’t want anyone else to know about. I don’t want it to become public. We can do a P.O., and if you don’t say anything, no one will know about it.”
The school board president said that’s what Superintendent Carol Birks told him and another board member this spring, as she sought approval to pay a contractor $5,000 through a purchase order on the QT.
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Aug 12, 2019 12:20 pm
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NHPS Central: Too costly?
From their Meadow Street headquarters, top school administrators have told high school students, literacy and math coaches, security guards and tradesmen to move to new buildings. Is it now the administrators’ turn?
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Aug 2, 2019 1:01 pm
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Nick Perrone: Leaving so soon?
As summer vacation nears its end, two elementary schools learned that they won’t have a permanent principal in place on the first day of classes, on an otherwise celebratory night welcoming new leaders into New Haven’s public schools.
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Aug 2, 2019 8:15 am
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BOE members discuss who should investigate complaints against district brass in Thursday evening’s executive session.
The school board told City Hall not to interfere with the investigations into recent alleged misconduct by the superintendent and her second-in-command.
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Jul 31, 2019 2:02 pm
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Paula Langlois.
An argument over which parking spot and entryway an elementary-school teacher in a wheelchair is allowed to use has cost the school district hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Jul 28, 2019 8:37 pm
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Memorial to Christopher Franco on the Tomlinson bridge, where a hit-and-run driver killed him.
Nearly 100 people gathered in Common Ground High School’s cafeteria Sunday for a vigil for recent graduate Christopher Franco, who was killed in a weekend crash, the school’s second tragic loss in six years.
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Jul 25, 2019 1:32 pm
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Fatima tests if objects sink or float, at play-based summer pilot.
By herself, in the corner of Room 4 at Conte-West Hills Magnet School, a 4‑year-old was conducting an experiment, while the district’s top administrators watched her in an experiment of their own.
Darnell Goldson went to a racially segregated school, then a racially integrated school. He’s not sure that either was the deciding factor in whether he received a good education.
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Jul 22, 2019 4:44 pm
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Pinto (at left). Birks: “Change is hard” but “necessary.”
Superintendent Carol Birks repeatedly mocked, insulted and demeaned her top staff, according to a “hostile work environment” complaint her chief operating officer has filed.
