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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.
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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.
Continue reading ‘Upper Westville Endorses Harp, Brackeen, Joyner, Smart’
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Blindness, Cancer Couldn’t Hold Them Back’
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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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Goldson Resurfaces As School Board Candidate’
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.
by | Jun 26, 2015 11:00 am | Comments (10)
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Brackeen and Joyner.
Edward Joyner brought dozens of family members — biological and adopted — together to kick off his campaign for an elected seat on the Board of Education.
Continue reading ‘Joyner Draws A Crowd For Ed Board Campaign’
by | Jun 25, 2015 1:03 pm | Comments (1)
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Carlton Highsmith and Callender.
Contributed by Matthew Higbee, of Community Foundation for Greater New Haven:
Though he grew up just a few short blocks away from Yale University, Jermaine Thomas didn’t know anyone who thought about going there. Most of the people he knew didn’t have much of an education at all.
Continue reading ‘“Promising Scholars” Get A Ticket To Higher Ed’
by | Jun 25, 2015 12:34 pm | Comments (4)
Contributed by Kenneth Joseph, a Highville teacher:
Out with the old and in with the new! On Monday, 400 students, staff and parents of Highville Charter School ended their school year by making a symbolic walk from their old building, 130 Leeder Hill Drive in Hamden, to their new building, 1 Science Park in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Highville Charter School Walks Home To New Haven’
by | Jun 24, 2015 3:41 pm | Comments (7)
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Fair Haven School Principal Margaret-Mary Gethings is leaving New Haven to become principal at John B. Sliney School in Branford.
Continue reading ‘Fair Haven School’s Principal Leaves For Branford’
by | Jun 23, 2015 1:52 pm | Comments (2)
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Galante: Please reconsider.
High School in the Community teaches its kid a “social justice” curriculum — one that the Board of Education would flunk because of how it handled major decisions affecting the school itself, in the view of some critics.
Continue reading ‘Parents, Students Press Board Of Ed On HSC’
by | Jun 23, 2015 1:50 pm | Comments (4)
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After almost half a year as interim principal of Troup Magnet School, Michelle Bonora (pictured at top) was chosen to fill the position permanently.
by | Jun 23, 2015 10:39 am | Comments (1)
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Teiona Edwards, Stephen Coger, Ta’Hari Mitchell, Sole Petty and Georgeana Johnson.
To five fifth-graders at King/Robinson Interdistrict Magnet School, Connecticut’s “pretty high” high-school graduation rate — 85 percent compared to 75 nationally — just wasn’t enough.
Continue reading ‘Fifth-Graders Haul A Message To Hillhouse’
by | Jun 23, 2015 8:43 am | Comments (3)
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Damaris Rau is leaving her job as the New Haven public school district’s executive director next month to become superintendent of Lancaster, Pennsylvania’s schools.
by | Jun 22, 2015 4:19 pm | Comments (1)
Erik Good teared up at the end of his speech to the graduating class of 2015 — which he delivered days after the district suddenly removed him and two other administrators from their positions at High School in the Community.
by | Jun 22, 2015 4:17 pm | Comments (0)
Six uniformed officers arrived at the Lincoln-Bassett School graduation Monday morning — to separate a man with a handgun from the auditorium.
by | Jun 18, 2015 2:46 pm | Comments (2)
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Gull’s third- grade class with Father Carter.
At a school that has followed centuries-old Catholic tradition for six decades, an update has been put in place.
by | Jun 17, 2015 4:46 pm | Comments (0)
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In Jeremy Burnett’s first year at Hillhouse High, he was falling behind academically and “on the wrong path.” Then the Public Safety Academy took him under its wing. Now, on Wednesday, he was sitting at a table with the executive director and the CFO of New Haven Public Schools, proudly listing the certifications he’s graduating with: Private Security, Emergency Medical Response, CPR and OSHA.
by | Jun 17, 2015 8:11 am | Comments (18)
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Buildilng leader Good (pictured) got the boot.
Schools Superintendent Garth Harries has removed the entire leadership team at High School in the Community, leaving its teacher-run tradition in doubt.
by | Jun 16, 2015 8:11 pm | Comments (0)
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Elecya Ward, who hadn’t worked in a garden before, eagerly named what she and fellow New Horizons students had planted in a formerly vacant lot next to the school: “Tomatoes, broccoli, spinach and onions.”
Continue reading ‘New Horizons Grows Life Lessons Along With Food’
by | Jun 16, 2015 12:16 pm | Comments (4)
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Whitaker, who is battling systemic scleroderma, says good-bye.
Student dancers who learned their first steps in Fair Haven School’s auditorium returned to perform for a woman preparing to take her last.
by | Jun 12, 2015 3:50 pm | Comments (1)
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Nature erupted outside outside another New Haven school Friday, where fourth-graders Kamiyah Emery and Sasha Cohen Cox spread the word about the right time to taste the nectar from the honeysuckle they’re tending.
Continue reading ‘New Edgewood Habitat Nurtures The Kids—& The Birds & Bees’
by | Jun 12, 2015 7:48 am | Comments (0)
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At Nathan Hale.
Sue Peters, Alicia Vignola, Althea Brooks and Liliya Garipova submitted this article concerning their organization’s event.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) last week launched its first annual Health and Wellness Summit to recognize past and current efforts to make schools and the City healthier places to learn, live, work and play.
by | Jun 10, 2015 4:15 pm | Comments (2)
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A roar from the standing audience shook the Shubert Theater as graduate Shatoya Morris, who at a young age saw her mother shot and killed, spoke about her “trials and tribulations and tragedies.” She couldn’t quiet the audience. So she shouted over the roar, tears in her eyes.