Schools Miss Spending Target On Hiring
by | Sep 9, 2015 5:00 pm | Comments (14)
The school district has spent $2.3 million more than planned on salaries to date this summer — leaving it far from its target for hiring savings.
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First Call At The New Westville Community Nursery
by | Sep 9, 2015 2:02 pm | Comments (3)
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A day before parents and their 32 nursery school children embark on a new chapter in the life of Westville Community Nursery School (WCNS) at their new Tour Avenue location in Westville Village, school staff Tuesday held a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the remarkable transformation of the former Owl’s Nest Cafe into their new home, complete with a new playground.
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Common Core Debated
by | Sep 9, 2015 12:02 pm | Comments (0)
Is the introduction of Common Core standardized tests an advance for Connecticut’s schools? Is it more complicated than that? Where should parents fall on the issue?
Joyner, Goldson Call For 1 Hillhouse
by | Sep 8, 2015 3:30 pm | Comments (28)
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Goldson (above), Joyner (below left) at WNHH.
The two Democrats running for seats on the Board of Education came out for eliminating Hillhouse High School’s three separate academies and three separate principals, and returning to one general high school with one principal.
A Yale Alder? Or An Alder From Yale?
by | Sep 4, 2015 12:12 pm | Comments (11)
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Eidelson, Stark.
One of the city’s most hotly contest primaries centers on where an alder should spend most of her or his time — at City Hall, or two blocks away on Yale’s campus.
Hopkins Gets New Principal
by | Sep 3, 2015 12:12 pm | Comments (1)
The following is a release from Hopkins School:
Vincent A. Calarco, President of the Committee of Trustees of Hopkins School in New Haven, announced today the appointment of Kai Bynum as Head of School, effective July 1, 2016. He will succeed Barbara Riley who is retiring after a 15-year tenure.
Black Men Cheerlead Kids To Start School Year
by | Aug 31, 2015 12:19 pm | Comments (23)
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Aprilrain Knox said she usually misses her parents when she’s in the classroom. As she walked in for her first day of third grade at Lincoln-Bassett, a small crowd eased her transition with whoops, cheers and a hearty round of applause.
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Principal Switch, Late News Cloud Hillhouse Start
by | Aug 25, 2015 7:30 am | Comments (17)
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Senior Green: Students “worried” about changes.
The Board of Education voted to approve David Diah as the third principal of Hillhouse High School — less than a week after appointing someone else to that position.
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Creative, & College-Bound
by | Aug 24, 2015 2:08 pm | Comments (0)
N’Zinga Shani has spent the past weeks looking at a statistic she finds good — but not good enough: nonwhites make up 17 percent of the new U.S. Congress. That’s great — until you consider that they make up 34 percent of the American population.
Hundreds Line Up For Back 2 School Fair
by | Aug 20, 2015 12:00 pm | Comments (0)
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This article was submitted by Jasmin Franjul of the Housing Authority of New Haven.
Hundreds lined up at Clinton Avenue School to get a little help starting off the upcoming school year right.
Ed Board Extends Olive Branch To Charter
by | Aug 10, 2015 1:14 pm | Comments (3)
After rejecting an offer to partner with charter network Achievement First (AF) on a new charter school, the Board of Education extended an olive branch of sorts at a special meeting Wednesday.
Back 2 School With Less Testing
by | Aug 6, 2015 6:49 pm | Comments (3)
Gov. Dannell P. Malloy came to the home of the Governors bearing a gift that will reduce the number of testing hurdles for 11th graders.
Back To School Rally Draws A Crowd
by | Aug 4, 2015 5:34 am | Comments (0)
Joe Ferraiolo – Frontier’s area general manager for New Haven County; Dion Watts, technical supervisor, Frontier; Bryan Brevard, technical supervisor, Frontier and Amanda Tardif, Connoisseur Media.
Hundreds of parents and students in New Haven took part in the 8th Annual Back-to-School Rally, an event designed to bolster excitement and provide families with supplies and information relating to the upcoming 2015 – 2016 school year.
YouthStat Kids Start Careers At Summer School
by | Jul 31, 2015 2:03 pm | Comments (0)
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Shanequa Arnold’s summer CPR training allowed her to spring into action when she saw a man get shot Wednesday.
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Hard-Eyed Dewey Devotee Left Mark On City Schools
by | Jul 28, 2015 1:08 pm | Comments (5)
I recently heard the news that Sam Nash had died. I was deeply saddened to hear the news even though I knew Sam had been ill for a long time and had never fully recovered from his wife Lola’s death a number of years ago.
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Ed Board Candidate Touts Policy Over Politics
by | Jul 22, 2015 3:35 pm | Comments (4)
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Nitza Diaz “hurts” to see English language learners (ELL) struggle to grasp the material, because she was there, too, as a teenager from Puerto Rico. She said she’s running for the Board of Education elected position in part to make the district’s ELL policies more consistent across all schools.
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HSC, Fair Haven Get New Principals
by | Jul 21, 2015 9:18 am | Comments (8)
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Following an expedited search process, the Board of Ed unanimously voted in new principals for Fair Haven School and High School in the Community (HSC).
Nunez Drops Out
by | Jul 15, 2015 3:55 pm | Comments (0)
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Anais Nunez is dropping out of the race for one the Board of Education’s new elected positions, to focus on advocacy instead of politics.
Barnard Divided On Prinicipal’s Changes
by | Jul 10, 2015 3:00 pm | Comments (25)
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Principal Jones-Generette in her Barnard office.
As New Haven’s school system focuses on reducing suspensions, Barnard Environmental Magnet has seen suspensions double in the last year under a new principal. Meanwhile, more than a third of teachers have been assigned to different grades or subjects for the upcoming academic year.
Upper Westville Endorses Harp, Brackeen, Joyner, Smart
by | Jul 10, 2015 2:05 pm | Comments (18)
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Toni Harp returned to a neighborhood where she faced fierce opposition two years ago, and emerged with a unanimous endorsement for reelection as mayor.
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Perry Gets A Promise
by | Jul 8, 2015 4:03 pm | Comments (4)
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Perry Robertson wanted the mayor to know the school system is behind the times on technology. So he popped by City Hall to tell her — and left with a follow-up promise.
Blindness, Cancer Couldn’t Hold Them Back
by | Jul 7, 2015 11:08 am | Comments (3)
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Brianna Rigsbee and Tiffany Fullerton battled congenital blindness and cancer, respectively — and made it to college with high grades and some scholarship money.
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One Building, Two Schools
by and | Jul 2, 2015 12:17 pm | Comments (14)
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AP students Jordan Lampo, Lewis Nelken, Sam Smith.
Wilbur Cross High School is the largest school in New Haven, and is supposedly a center of diversity. Cross routinely has assemblies celebrating the school’s diversity, and a whole section of the school is called the International Academy.
However, the school is divided, in part by the Advanced Placement Program.
Goldson Resurfaces As School Board Candidate
by | Jul 1, 2015 7:46 am | Comments (28)
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The latest candidate to enter this year’s first-ever Board of Education elections sends his daughter to private school — which, he said, is a reason he’s running.
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An Eel, A Crayfish—And Maybe A Career
by | Jun 29, 2015 1:17 pm | Comments (0)
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“Oh! That felt really weird,” Keelin Mathews said.
The 15-year-old was scooping macro invertebrates out of a tub of water, when a crayfish brushed against her plastic spoon, startling her.