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Jocelyn Juarez: Proudest moment was "handing in my last assignments."
On Bowen Field for Thursday's celebration.
When Jocelyn Juarez entered Hillhouse High School as a freshman, she struggled with a disability that inhibited her ability to walk. She often relied on her mother for support.
But on Thursday, at Hillhouse’s graduation ceremony at Bowen Field, Juarez confidently strode across the stage to receive her diploma. Her mother watched from the stands with tears in her eyes.
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Jun 14, 2024 9:26 am
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Paul Panagrosso: "I'm a lucky man to be here today."
Eighty years after officially graduating from what was then called New Haven High School, 98-year-old World War II veteran Paul Panagrosso walked across the stage with Hillhouse’s Class of 2024 on Thursday to receive his diploma.
Incoming ninth-grader Chrisette Kendall didn’t go into Hillhouse High School’s extracurricular fair looking for anything in particular. She left wanting to join the cheerleading team, the math team, and the Brown Girls Cooking and Conversation Club.
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May 31, 2024 1:04 pm
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The scorched back porch of 550 Ellsworth.
A single-alarm fire that started in an Ellsworth Avenue home’s back porch before jumping to the residence’s upper levels has displaced former Beaver Hill Alder Jill Marks and her family — who are now turning to the community for fundraising help.
Hillhouse's Antoine Billy: Will be back in August.
Not quite three months into his new top job, Hillhouse High School Principal Antoine Billy has taken up a bet with some of his staff — that he will be returning to Hillhouse at the end of summer break, and that he won’t make the school find its sixth principal in less than three years.
If Billy wins that bet — which, he promised this reporter, he’s 100 percent sure he will — he plans to celebrate with a glazed Krispy Kreme donut in August. And a successful school year to follow.
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Feb 23, 2024 9:27 am
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BOMUS leaders and panelists Melanie Thomas, Dondi José Burroughs Sr, Gary Winfield, Shante Teel-Williams, Alisha Crutchfield-McLean, Gary Highsmith, and Jamie Baker-Vilsaint.
Third and fourth-grade scholars at the Barack H. Obama Magnet University School sat in an audience looking at their future selves through the lens of a business owner, health professional, schools superintendent, state senator, and a motivational speaker/author.
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Jan 31, 2024 9:40 am
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Davis and Burgess.
On Tuesday morning, Peter Davis, a volunteer river keeper with the city parks department, and fellow volunteer David Burgess were over the edge of the slope off Diamond Street in Beaver Hills, lugging a dilapidated couch out of the woods. Around them was a thin carpet of other discarded objects. Among the trash bags were a fan, a decaying rug, a mattress, a rusting wheelchair.
It was a lot of garbage. Davis and Burgess were taking it one piece at a time.
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Jan 29, 2024 10:03 am
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Anthropology major Chris Kowalski (above) and Aaron Goode (below) de-vine by Beaver Brook.
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Clip high, clip low, create a window. Also don’t be a Tarzan and pull on those cut vines lest you disturb insect habitats or the birds high in the trees above.
Those were among the illuminating arboricultural tips offered for some serious de-vining of New Haven’s invasive-threatened native oaks, maples, sycamores, and hackberry trees growing on a beautiful but under-loved patch of city-owned forested greenspace.
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Maya McFadden |
Jan 9, 2024 11:24 am
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Hillhouse incoming principal Antoine Billy: On a mission to keep students' dreams from being deferred.
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Poster made by a NHPS paraprofessional for Monday's meeting.
The Board of Education heard about and took action Monday night on leadership of schools as well as the board itself, then received a plea from paraprofessionals for renewed contract negotiation.
A mural painted in Hillhouse's cafeteria last school year.
Hillhouse didn’t have to give back any unspent money to the state after all — and was able to roll over more than $190,000 in last year’s school-improvement funds to the current school year.
Paraprofessional Denise Roman gives Board of Ed a petition with 130 signatures in support of renegotiating the para contract rather than heading to arbitration.
Negotiations over a new contract for assistant teachers and parent liaisons has hit an impasse — as paraprofessionals cite too little pay, too much resistance from the public school district, and a contested union deal now heading to arbitration.
Hillhouse advocates (clockwise) Pamela Cummings, Sara Armstrong, Haruki Cubeta-Yonamine, John Saksa, Raven Mitchell, Karalyn Meineke, Leslie Blatteau, and Kevin Barbero.
All is not well at the city’s second largest public school, according to a group of Hillhouse High School educators and parents who raised the alarm to the Board of Education about overburdened staff, too many teacher vacancies, inadequate support for students, and inconsistent communication from school and district leadership.
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Dec 4, 2023 12:34 pm
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Barack Obama students, recognized by state, cheer on their teachers.
Principal Jamie Baker beamed at the hundreds of Barack Obama School students seated before her in the cafeteria. “How are the best scholars in the United States doing today?” she called out.
Hillhouse High School’s auditorium now has a new, leak-free roof thanks to a nearly $300,000 replacement job completed in six months, rather than a year — as was originally predicted for the construction.
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Oct 30, 2023 3:22 pm
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Leonard Gorham with Dr. Frederick Landy at Floyd Little-hosted clinic.
In the midst of a teeming bazaar of dental specialists cleaning, drilling, and extracting at Floyd Little Athletic Center, Leonard Gorham, a 71-year-old Air Force veteran from New Haven, relaxed into his dental chair, waiting to be fitted for a partial denture.
NHPS first-month suspension data from 2019 to 2023, with no data for 2020's remote year.
In-school and out-of-school suspensions are on the decline, with 151 taking place during the first month of the current school year — in comparison to 205 during that same time last year.
Even with that drop, the suspension numbers are still above where the district was pre-pandemic, when the district saw 142 suspensions in the first month of the 2019 school year.
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Maya McFadden |
Oct 10, 2023 10:18 am
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Emonie Jackson, mastering pop art with Hillhouse art teacher Rebecca LeQuire.
Carlos Kirklan: Art is "an escape," and a chance to create.
With pop artist Keith Haring in mind, Hillhouse High School junior Emonie Jackson imagined up a chicken leg, to-go cup, and ketchup bottle all with arms and legs — and then penned those images to paper, honing her own creative style and skills amid her classroom’s dive into recent art history.
Moisture bubbles and tears in the field house track as of Wednesday.
The city school district’s facilities team is sprinting towards a roughly $100,000 short-term fix for dozens of moisture bubbles and tears in the Floyd Little Athletic Center track surface — in the runup to a longer-term $1.3 million needed overhaul.
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Maya McFadden |
Oct 3, 2023 10:15 am
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Supervisor of Elementary Reading and Language Arts Jennifer Tousignant.
In an effort to improve reading levels for the city school district’s youngest students, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has created a new 90-minute literacy block outline for kindergarten through third-grade educators — all based off of the district’s recently adopted core literacy program.
That block includes 30 minutes of phonics instruction, 20 minutes of whole group structured literacy learning, and 40 minutes of small group instruction.
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Sep 26, 2023 11:38 am
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Isiah Franklin, with Coach Alexander Baez and two Hartford baseball teammates: "Patience" is the word.
CC Sabathia: “I’ve been through so much on and off the field."
When CC Sabathia was nine years old, Oakland Athletics pitcher Dave Stewart visited Sabathia’s Boys & Girls Club — and that’s when the future Cy Young Award-winning left-hander knew what he wanted to do with his life.
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Aug 31, 2023 1:27 pm
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State Sen. Gary Winfield (right) and State Treasurer Erick Russell help welcome students back to to Barack Obama School.
Jomo Bartholomew with his seven- and thirteen-year-old kids: Start of school is "bittersweet" after such a fun summer.
Jomo Bartholomew is going to miss the summertime family fun of watching movies late at night and cooking breakfast together in the morning and visiting parks all over New Haven during the day alongside his two children.
And so it was “bittersweet” when he dropped off his seven- and thirteen-year-old kids for their first day of school Thursday morning, even as his family looks forward to the more stable routines of the school year ahead.
Supt. Madeline Negrón salsa dances her way towards the 2023-24 school year ...
... at the annual, music-and-culture-filled NHPS convocation.
The nation’s top education official, Miguel Cardona, offered a custom playlist with a song for every occasion for New Haven teachers as they get ready for the start of the school year on Thursday.
Track 1: “Vivir Mi Vida” by Marc Anthony, as a reminder to enjoy the work you do.
Track 2: “Respect” by Aretha Franklin, for when politics tries to creep its way into the classroom.
Track 3: “Livin’ on a Prayer” by Jon Bon Jovi, for January when “we’re halfway there.”
Track 4: “Valio La Pena” by Marc Anthony, to know it’s worth it.
