by | Oct 19, 2022 10:45 am | Comments (5)
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Brzezinski mixing in-person and digital teaching at ESUMS; more than 20,000 people follow his instructional videos online.
Tim Brzezinski welcomes smart phones and TikTok when he’s teaching — both to his New Haven middle-school math classroom and to thousands of people around the globe who follow his videos online.
by | Oct 17, 2022 9:27 am | Comments (0)
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Colello on Friday: "I started from the bottom and went through it all."
A veteran Hamden public works employee is slated to become the town department’s next director — with plans to bring sustainability, including town-made potting soil, to the top of his agenda as well as to community members’ gardens.
by | Oct 14, 2022 11:53 am | Comments (4)
(Opinion) Teachers need more zeroes at the end of their paychecks. Budding corporate leaders need more zeroes at the end of their pizza-flavored civic “donations.” Renters need fewer zeroes at the end of their monthly fees.
by | Oct 14, 2022 9:12 am | Comments (10)
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Grad union backers gather on Hillhouse Thursday.
The sky opened up as the rally rounded onto Prospect Street, drenching hundreds of union-boosting Yalies and their allies as they marched towards Grove.
The downpour did little to dampen their spirits — or their voices. Though it did temporarily change their chant as they called for a union to represent graduate student-teachers.
What was: “What do we want?” “A union!” “When do we want it?” “Now!” transformed into: “Rain, rain, go away! We want to talk to Salovey!”
by | Oct 12, 2022 2:30 pm | Comments (18)
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Supt. Tracey: "Let us not present New Haven Public Schools in a negative light."
New hires will receive signing bonuses through the end of January in the public school district’s latest effort to recruit more teachers, paraprofessionals, social workers, and safety officers — amid an ongoing flood of staff resignations and publicly vented concerns about substandard working conditions in the city’s schools.
by and | Oct 12, 2022 11:14 am | Comments (17)
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Kermit Carolina: Suiting back up, this time for Cross.
A public school leader who has made a career out of working with at-risk teens will step into the top role at Wilbur Cross High School on an interim basis to replace a school leader who is leaving his post six weeks into the academic year.
by | Oct 10, 2022 2:19 pm | Comments (50)
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Kirsten Hopes-McFadden and Ashley Stockton.
As the city’s public school district struggles to fill classrooms with permanent teachers, veteran local educators spoke out about feeling disrespected and underappreciated six weeks into a school year increasingly defined by a teacher shortage.
by | Oct 4, 2022 8:35 am | Comments (17)
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Finance Chair Marchand: Making compensation "more competitive."
Alders signed off on boosting pension benefits and salary ranges for some top City Hall positions in a bid to reduce vacancies in the higher ranks of municipal government.
Continue reading ‘Pay-Pension Bump Passes For City Managers’
by | Oct 2, 2022 3:01 pm | Comments (49)
John Tarka: It's been real.
Newly instated Wilbur Cross High School Principal John Tarka announced he is leaving his role as leader five weeks into the academic year.
Continue reading ‘Cross Principal Bolts After 5 Weeks Of Classes’
by | Sep 29, 2022 4:47 pm | Comments (3)
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Union lawyer Segar: Labor board should grant "interim relief" to pause COMPASS rollout.
A recently filed state labor board complaint by New Haven’s police union claims that the city failed to provide cops with a clear “program operational plan” in the runup to the start of training for a long-delayed effort to send social workers instead of police officers in response to certain 911 calls.
Continue reading ‘Crisis Team Complaint Laments Lack Of Plan’
by | Sep 28, 2022 9:26 am | Comments (22)
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Capt. Dell, who led probe into deaths of Maggie and Buttons.
A police captain has been assigned to supervise New Haven’s animal shelter — and remind the city’s animal control officer the difference between a dead cat and a live one.
by | Sep 22, 2022 1:44 pm | Comments (20)
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Union spokesman Segar: We're going to get to the bottom of this leak.
New Haven’s police union has filed a labor complaint to hold off the city’s long-delayed initiative to dispatch social workers instead of cops in response to certain 911 calls.
Continue reading ‘Union Complaint Further Stalls Crisis Team’
by | Sep 21, 2022 4:46 pm | Comments (29)
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YNHH VP Vin Petrini: Large deficits led to large layoffs.
Yale New Haven Health laid off 72 hospital managers Wednesday and eliminated another 83 vacant administrative positions in a system-wide “restructuring” done in the face of rising costs and an expected $300 million deficit.
by | Sep 16, 2022 7:45 pm | Comments (0)
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Celebrating SCSU's new College of Health & Human Services building.
Hundreds of alumni, students and community members gathered on Southern Connecticut State University’s (SCSU) campus to tour a brand new building devoted to healthcare and human services studies — and designed to strengthen a suffering sector of the state’s workforce.
by | Sep 13, 2022 3:42 pm | Comments (11)
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Streets: Saw teachers respected, students supported.
Carolyn Streets returned to her English language arts classroom at Engineering and Science University Magnet School (ESUMS) with new insights into how to teach reading in a supportive environment — gained from a six-month sabbatical at a place known for doing it well.
by | Sep 13, 2022 3:41 pm | Comments (7)
Leslie Blatteau and Iline Tracey: working to keep teachers and fill vacancies.
The New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) are offering teachers a chance to put extra money in their pockets in return for taking extra shifts in the district’s dozens of empty classrooms.
by | Sep 13, 2022 9:10 am | Comments (17)
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At the main branch on Elm St.
City libraries remain closed on Sundays 11 weeks into a fiscal year in which they are supposed to be open, with the Elicker Administration citing staff shortages as the biggest roadblock so far to realizing a heralded budget promise.
Continue reading ‘Despite Budget Vow, Libraries Closed On Sundays’
by | Sep 8, 2022 4:05 pm | Comments (0)
If you can read and write, see well, count, and communicate with people — then you can make some money putting in a long shift to help preserve democracy on Election Day.
Continue reading ‘Workers Sought For The Polls On Election Day’
by | Sep 7, 2022 5:55 pm | Comments (6)
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Drivers and supporters outside City Hall Wednesday.
Drivers from across the state broke away from behind their steering wheels Wednesday to march across New Haven to demand better benefits, pay and protections from rideshare companies like Uber.
Continue reading ‘Uber Drivers March For Better Pay, Protections’
by | Aug 26, 2022 3:29 pm | Comments (14)
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Cotto and Blanco looking for a missing man at Justin’s Deli.
City police Officers Martha Cotto and Kevin Blanco were in the middle of their walking beat on Grand Avenue when a call came over the radio: An 85-year-old man with dementia had wandered away from home, and he was now missing somewhere in Fair Haven.
by | Aug 25, 2022 4:15 pm | Comments (19)
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U.S. Sen. Blumenthal: 'Internet for all' not possible through shoddy installs.
Communication workers and labor-friendly politicians called out Frontier Communications for prioritizing underqualified subcontractors over full-time, well-trained employees as the telecommunications giant expands its fiber optic Internet services across the state.
by | Aug 23, 2022 5:37 pm | Comments (8)
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Charter Revision Chair Gallagher: Let the people decide in November.
Does Hamden need a chief operating officer to serve as the mayor’s second in command in overseeing Town Hall?
That question could come before voters in November — if a skeptical Legislative Council signs off on such a ballot measure later this week.
Continue reading ‘Charter Revision Q: Should Hamden Have A COO?’
by | Aug 17, 2022 3:14 pm | Comments (27)
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Iline Tracey testifies: New Haven kids will succeed.
“When I hear those numbers, it makes me cringe,” Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers told Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey.
Speaking at a public hearing, she was referring to New Haven Public Schools’ test scores from the past year, which officials have referred to as a reading and math “crisis.”
“Our students are resilient,” Tracey responded, and they need “indestructible hope.”
by | Aug 10, 2022 2:20 pm | Comments (7)
Keisha Redd-Hannans.
The school district has chosen New Haven native Keisha Redd Hannans, who has been with the district for 14 years, as the replacement for departing assistant superintendent Ivelise Velazquez.
by | Aug 9, 2022 1:35 pm | Comments (31)
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Abdussabur: We came through during Covid.
The Board of Education voted to hire a new cleaning contractor for its schools this coming year, ditching a local Black-owned firm in favor of a Massachusetts-based company.
Continue reading ‘NHPS Turns Out Of State For Cleaning Schools’