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Zakiyyah Baker: Youth Stat reaches outside the school for help.
Traumatized by a recent violent event, several Hillhouse High School students were skipping school, failing multiple classes and lashing out at their teachers and classmates.
So the adults in their lives gathered to hash out solutions.
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by | Mar 18, 2015 6:09 pm | Comments (5)
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Pointing to the thousands of students on wait lists statewide, advocates rallied in New Haven Wednesday against a bill that would impose a two-year moratorium on new charter schools.
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by | Mar 18, 2015 1:51 pm | Comments (5)
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Malloy speaks to New Haven Academy class.seniors.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy stopped by New Haven Academy Wednesday to announce that graduation rates in the state, and New Haven specifically, continue to increase.
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by | Mar 17, 2015 3:10 pm | Comments (1)
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This is the first of three essays about musician and composer Chris Brubeck‘s teaching in Wilbur Cross High School’s music classes from Feb. 27 to Mar. 5 as part of his artist in residency program with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. The second essay, written by Stephanie Persiani, a sophomore at Wilbur Cross, will run tomorrow. The third essay, written by Lewis Nelken, a junior at Wilbur Cross, will run the day after..
by | Mar 17, 2015 8:50 am | Comments (0)
New Haven Public School students vying for one of two student positions on the new “hybrid” Board of Education will have to collect signatures to get their name on a ballot, but they’ll have access to resources to help them campaign, and they’ll have a whole election week to vote instead of just one day.
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by | Mar 12, 2015 1:53 pm | Comments (2)
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Second through sixth-graders at Nathan Hale School interviewed 93-year-old local historian Doris Townshend for their school newspaper, The Patriot Times. Following is the story they published
It’s a cold, Tuesday night and Mrs. Townshend (also known as Doris or Deb), warmly greets us at the giant front door.
by | Mar 12, 2015 12:17 pm | Comments (12)
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De La Paz with Rosenberg at report’s unveiling.
A study into why some New Haven schools get more teachers or money than other schools delivered a simple answer: We don’t know.
That got people talking.
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by | Mar 6, 2015 2:09 pm | Comments (13)
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Assistant Principal Jenny Clarino with Principal Brown-Clayton.
Students are “on task,” not wandering the halls. Hundreds of parents attend school-sponsored events. But academically rigorous work “was not consistently observed.”
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by | Mar 4, 2015 9:14 am | Comments (12)
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Reading teacher Tim Shortt.
Sabrina Breland’s Wexler-Grant teachers have managed to get more students reading at grade level — with 70 percent meeting their personal goals and 64 percent meeting the district benchmark — in part by using a Google Doc spreadsheet. Can that help schools citywide meet a challenge from the mayor?
by | Mar 3, 2015 1:04 pm | Comments (27)
Need a cigarette break during a trip to Edgewood or East Shore Park? You might have to leave the premises to get your nicotine fix.
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by | Mar 3, 2015 9:26 am | Comments (0)
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Harries with the kids at Strong.
The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So they brought Seuss to Strong School this cold, cold Monday.
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by | Feb 25, 2015 3:44 pm | Comments (31)
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Harries, Torre, Harp at a stormy “Imagine” hearing.
“Elm City Imagine” died Wednesday—at least the version that would have had New Haven’s Board of Ed entering into a partnership this year with the Achievement First charter network on a new school.
by | Feb 20, 2015 10:09 am | Comments (7)
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Eidelson, Holmes at the vote.
To run for a seat on New Haven’s reconstituted Board of Education, students will need to get 100 petition signatures from fellow students, including 50 from five different schools other than their own.
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by | Feb 18, 2015 3:06 pm | Comments (5)
It seems Morgan Freeman isn’t the only one with an opinion about Black History month. In light of February’s black history commemoration, N’Zinga Shani organized an episode of her “One World Civic Engagment” public-access TV show for students to discuss the annual observance. Students discussed the stigma surrounding cultural celebrations, and the need— or lack thereof, in their opinion, for such events.
by | Feb 18, 2015 10:13 am | Comments (59)
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Torre, Caraballo came out swinging.
A controversial plan for New Haven public schools to create an experimental school with a charter network hit a roadblock Tuesday night, as two Board of Ed members peppered proponents with skeptical questions and declared themselves unprepared to vote yet.
by | Feb 17, 2015 9:04 am | Comments (13)
New Haven’s teachers union president popped a question for his adversaries in the charter movement: If you want a new relationship, why should we pay you for it?
by | Feb 16, 2015 1:18 pm | Comments (6)
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Ifill (left) and Ricker (right) check up on John Doe.
Jennifer Ricker said she has no idea what her second-grade daughter is learning in school, when she has tests or whether she is on track for her grade level — because her teachers don’t send any of that information home.
by | Feb 13, 2015 3:04 pm | Comments (0)
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For many actors, landing a role at Long Wharf Theater is a feather in their cap, a chance to walk the same stage as Al Pacino, Brian Dennehy, or Kathleen Turner. For Kelly McQuail, who’s making her debut there in the controversial Bad Jews — which opens next week and is apparently almost sold out — it is also a homecoming.
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by | Feb 11, 2015 1:05 pm | Comments (1)
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Jack Paulishen, an award-winning teacher at James Hillhouse High School, didn’t mince words: “As some of you know, I was diagnosed with malignant melanoma this past August, and part of me knows that I would not be getting this award if I didn’t have cancer. Having said that, if I was running this fundraiser (which I have in the past) I’d give me an award too. (Who wouldn’t buy a $25 ticket for a guy who has cancer? LOL.)”
by | Feb 10, 2015 9:28 am | Comments (27)
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The crowd at Martinez School Monday night.
After listening to 40 passionate speeches over four hours, Mayor Toni Harp proclaimed herself “not opposed” to a controversial proposed financial partnership between Achievement First (AF) charter network and the Board of Ed to create an experimental school called Elm City Imagine. But she added she is “not ready to sign on the dotted line” until kinks are worked out.
by | Feb 9, 2015 3:49 pm | Comments (24)
Achievement First (AF) charter network sent a letter to the New Haven Board of Education with 50 signatures from community leaders in support of the proposed charter school Elm City Imagine — in advance of Monday night’s scheduled board discussion on whether the New Haven Public Schools should serve as a financial partner.
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by | Feb 9, 2015 9:30 am | Comments (2)
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The Southern Connecticut State University Fighting Owl T‑shirts hung big on the shoulders of (in the front row) little Samia Virga, Alberto Cosme, and Melanie Peralta.
That was precisely the point: To grow into them.
by | Feb 9, 2015 9:14 am | Comments (22)
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Corey and Jae Rossman are drawn to Strong School in part because Lego blocks are integrated into the science curriculum. But they worry their son won’t be placed in the kindergarten class there, or in any of his other top choices.
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by | Feb 5, 2015 9:28 am | Comments (51)
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Parent Stephen Poland (right) at Hill session.
Career High School biology teacher Terrence McTague said he is “frustrated” by seeing “such great things” happen in his underfunded school go unappreciated while the “billionaires’ boys club” throws money to charter schools.
Continue reading ‘Teachers, Parents Organize Against Charter Deal’
by | Feb 3, 2015 8:56 am | Comments (13)
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Ifill: The system’s stacked against the student.
A black male seventh-grader was considered for expulsion last year for assault using a dangerous weapon — burning a student with a hot screwdriver after heating it with a lighter.
Stupid mistake? Or vicious attack?
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