Refugee Guides Kids To Safe Passage
by | Apr 1, 2024 1:15 pm | Comments (5)
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Feras on the job on Nash Street.
Feras celebrated his first job in the U.S. Monday morning by walking into traffic — and slowing down cars.
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5 NHPS Administrators Reappointed
by | Apr 1, 2024 11:48 am | Comments (21)
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Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment Keisha Redd-Hannans.
The Board of Education has approved renewing the contracts of five high-level New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) administrators.
Schools Go All In On Competition
by | Mar 27, 2024 1:40 pm | Comments (3)
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Ms. Colon's 2nd grade classroom, which took home the John C. Daniels first place March Madness prize last year.
It’s game on for New Haven students: They’re about to embark on citywide school-versus-school contests — not over basketball or soccer, but attendance and reading.
Kids Ring In iPeabody Era
by | Mar 26, 2024 4:18 pm | Comments (5)
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Derek Silva and company use iPhones to capture Peabody reopening.
Joanna Romberg shows the crew a fossilized fish.
The reborn Peabody Museum unlocked its doors Tuesday and ushered in a new era of kids ready to roam renovated dinosaur rooms — as the kids unlocked their iPhones.
High Schoolers To Middle Schoolers: Get Involved, Be Yourself
by | Mar 26, 2024 3:16 pm | Comments (6)
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Alejandro Zacatelco: "I was really confused and scared."
Wilbur Cross junior Alejandro Zacatelco offered advice to 100 middle-schoolers transitioning to high school — advice he never got due to the Covid pandemic.
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1 Tree Up, 999 To Go
by | Mar 25, 2024 3:30 pm | Comments (33)
A red oak...
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... and an evergreen partner planted side by side Monday morning.
Tree planters trudged through the mud at Kimberly Field to position a red oak in the ground — and pledged to plant 1,000 new trees in New Haven a year, one sapling at a time.
NHA Composters Get To Work Saving Food Scraps — & The Planet
by | Mar 25, 2024 12:47 pm | Comments (8)
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Student composters Akira Torres, Zuhal Jamal, and Juliette Bolanos...
...and their life-saving food scrap stats.
11 New Haven Academy (NHA) students have helped to divert 3,285 pounds of food scraps from landfills so far this school year.
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Newhallville Presses Zinn On Speed Bumps, School Traffic Safety
by | Mar 22, 2024 11:08 am | Comments (10)
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Lincoln-Bassett parent Stacy Leslie: school pick-up is hectic.
Speed bumps are on the way to Newhallville. What, neighbors asked, about the schools?
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Action Promised On School Bathrooms
by | Mar 20, 2024 12:03 pm | Comments (24)
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Toilets ripped from the floor. Stalls littered with writing. Destroyed ceiling panels. And human-sized holes in walls … can all be found in New Haven’s public school bathrooms, a mess that school officials promised they’re working to clean up.
Groundhog Day: Schools Freeze Some Spending To Close Year-End Deficit
by | Mar 19, 2024 2:51 pm | Comments (11)
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Chief Finance Officer Linda Hannans: Belt-tightening time.
New Haven Public Schools has placed a halt on most spending requests through the end of the academic year to close a $4 million deficit.
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Students Want Clean Bathrooms
by | Mar 18, 2024 1:58 pm | Comments (28)
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Career student Alexa Elias addresses citywide student council meeting.
What do New Haven Public School students want? Clean and functional school bathrooms. When do they want it? According to a vote by the citywide student council: NOW.
Early Ed Center Rebounds From Pandemic
by | Mar 15, 2024 3:36 pm | Comments (4)
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Chloe (bottom right) with site director Michelle Reyes and teacher Lauren Safady at Friday's classroom reopening.
Wearing a unicorn-decorated shirt bearing the message “Kindness Is Pure Magic,” 3‑year-old Chloe danced through the ribbon-cutting for a reopened toddler classroom on Olive Street — as a leading childcare provider recovered from a pandemic-imposed setback.
Rosa: "New Normal" Of Quality, Affordable Childcare Requires More Gov't Funding
by | Mar 15, 2024 3:33 pm | Comments (0)
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U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro greets early ed teacher Haley Gregory on Friday.
The following speech was given by U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the ranking Democratic member on the House Appropriations Committee and a longtime advocate for an expanded federal child tax credit and increased government investments in childcare, at a press conference Friday celebrating the reopening of the eighth and final classroom at the Hope Child Development Center on Olive Street.
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Newhallville Celebrates Community Organizing Win
by | Mar 15, 2024 2:03 pm | Comments (3)
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State Rep. Robyn Porter helps serve food to neighbors and fellow politicians.
An all-boys charter school is gearing up to open this fall in a stately Dixwell Avenue building that neighbors stopped from becoming a methadone clinic two years ago.
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Schools Report Steady Math, Reading Progress
by | Mar 15, 2024 11:25 am | Comments (8)
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Math supervisor Monica Joyner: Moving in the right direction.
A year after picking a new K‑5 reading curriculum, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) is seeing steady growth in K‑12 math and literacy assessment scores. The district is still keeping its foot on the gas to catch up students who are more than three grade levels behind.
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Hooker Parents: We Need A Nurse
by | Mar 14, 2024 1:06 pm | Comments (5)
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Parents Claire Roosien, Peter Butler, Vicki Grubaugh appeal to the Board of Ed.
Worthington Hooker School parents are pleading for a school nurse at the school’s K‑2 campus on Canner Street — a concern they initially raised to the Board of Education back in December.
Board Of Ed Approves 4-Year Bus Contract
by | Mar 12, 2024 2:42 pm | Comments (5)
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New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has again tapped First Student as its transportation contractor for the next four years, after searching in vain for two months for a competing bid.
Metro Seniors Step In As "Justice Restorers"
by | Mar 12, 2024 12:54 pm | Comments (5)
Metro students prepare for fifth hearing this year that helps students to repair harm.
When students make mistakes at Metropolitan Business Academy, student leaders step in to help their peers take accountability, repair the harm caused, and accept supports to keep it from happening again.
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School District Sees Mayor's Budget Bump — & Seeks $12M More
by | Mar 8, 2024 2:19 pm | Comments (28)
NHPS request: A budget without new items and with only contractual increases.
School board officials plan to plead for $12 million more from the city than what the mayor has put in his proposed new city budget — money they say would still cover only the bare bones.
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Laureate Helps Kids Tap Poetic Powers
by | Mar 8, 2024 9:32 am | Comments (2)
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Laureate Little with King/Robinson students.
Fifth-grader Aly Gaye knew where to start when New Haven’s poet laureate asked him to write verses about himself: My power lies in my brain, in my smarts.
ESUMS Students Go Live
by | Mar 7, 2024 1:01 pm | Comments (7)
Caysi Morgan and Isaiah Correia direct Young Minds podcast with ESUMS students Jaedyn, Mekhi, Mason, Kimora, Mily, and Kory.
“Quiet on the set, please,” said high school junior Isaiah Correia to six of his classmates. “And … action.”
The scene was the cafeteria at Engineering and Science University Magnet School. The six students, seated on talk-show couches, were about to launch another episode of “Young Minds,” a podcast focused on social issues that impact high school students. The topic of the day: bullying.
Metro "Grows Our Own" Future Teachers
by | Mar 6, 2024 4:25 pm | Comments (7)
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Tomorrow's teachers? Metro "Educators Rising" students discuss student mindsets.
Some students remained after school at Metro Business Academy Tuesday to start getting a sense of what it might be like one day to come back — as teachers.
$3.7M Incoming In Student Scholarships At Albertus
by | Mar 5, 2024 3:17 pm | Comments (0)
More members of Generation Alpha may be able to afford an Albertus Magnus college degree — thanks to $3.7 million in new donations going towards student scholarships.
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Students, Governor cARTie Hearty
by | Mar 5, 2024 9:45 am | Comments (0)
Students Monday outside the parked cARTie bus.
cARTie museum educator Nicole Pappo reads to students outdoors.
When asked “does art matter?” second graders Mercedes, Mason, and Elia agreed “yes.” Then they showed some of the reasons: Mason drew a sign reading “art = peace.” Elia drew a self-portrait. And Mercedes drew a rainbow, reading “I love art.”
"R-E-S-P-E-C-T" Kicks Off Women's, Music Month
by | Mar 4, 2024 2:18 pm | Comments (0)
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Ellen Maust reads aloud to Mauro Sheridan second-grade class.
In a second-grade classroom at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School students danced along to Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” after learning about the “Queen of Soul.”
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