by | Sep 24, 2015 3:12 pm | Comments (0)
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Garraty: We want to offer certification to all students.
Tyanna Evans’s first-choice career is police detective. Plan B? Probably firefighting.
Continue reading ‘Hillhouse Frosh Get Started On Their Badges’
by | Sep 24, 2015 11:10 am | Comments (0)
The following information about the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute was contributed by the program’s Josiah Brown.
New Teacher-Developed Curricular Resources Available; Partnership Completes 38th Year, Prepares for 2016
Curriculum units that teachers from fifteen New Haven public schools developed as Fellows in four Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute seminars in 2015 are available at this website. (http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/)
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by | Sep 23, 2015 8:46 am | Comments (4)
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Voters in half of New Haven won’t get to choose among candidates for the Board of Education after all.
by | Sep 22, 2015 12:14 pm | Comments (4)
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Earl Givan lives just ten minutes from the Sound School — but ends up spending a half hour to get there because he rides a CT Transit bus. Samuel Gray said he would probably do better academically at Sound if he didn’t have a 45-minute Metro North train ride every day to and from Old Saybrook.
by | Sep 21, 2015 1:47 pm | Comments (5)
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Furlow: Drivers can’t do it all.
Prompted by the death of an 8‑year-old, New Haven’s alders have urged the creation of a specific radio frequency and the hiring of more dispatchers to handle school bus medical emergencies. At least one parent advocate said more needs to be done.
by | Sep 17, 2015 3:07 pm | Comments (17)
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Brian Henderson had a few suggestions for getting his peers to show up to school more often: changing the day’s start time to 9 a.m. or leaving kids an hour-long “open window for lateness.”
by | Sep 11, 2015 10:52 am | Comments (1)
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Seven-year-old Ramaya Glass goes to the dentist regularly and has the smile to prove it.
Some students at her school, Augusta Lewis Troup, don’t see a dentist. Yet. Starting this school year, they will have a chance at better oral health and having a smile like Ramaya’s.
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘First Call At The New Westville Community Nursery’
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Black Men Cheerlead Kids To Start School Year’
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.
Continue reading ‘Principal Switch, Late News Cloud Hillhouse Start’
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.
by | Aug 20, 2015 12:00 pm | Comments (0)
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Hundreds lined up at Clinton Avenue School to get a little help starting off the upcoming school year right.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘YouthStat Kids Start Careers At Summer School’
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.
Continue reading ‘Hard-Eyed Dewey Devotee Left Mark On City Schools’
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.
Continue reading ‘Ed Board Candidate Touts Policy Over Politics’
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).
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.