by | Nov 11, 2022 9:14 am | Comments (0)
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Steve Winter and Ann Garrett Robinson celebrate Lucretia's Corner renaming Thursday.
Four centuries after New Haven’s first recorded Black resident left her mark as an activist and enslaved domestic worker, the corner of Elm and Orange is slated to bear her name.
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by | Nov 7, 2022 4:40 pm | Comments (9)
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City librarians Samantha Bailey, Diane Brown, and Jennifer Gargiulo: Libraries are "stretched," can't take on Sunday hours at this time.
Over a dozen city librarians rallied at City Hall to send a message to the mayor that they need better pay — and that Sunday hours just won’t do, especially given the city’s current staffing crunch.
by | Nov 7, 2022 3:38 pm | Comments (0)
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Licensed pipefitter CJ Timon, in foreground, with apprentice Hunter Murphy preparing to install another sprinkler head Monday as Box 63 becomes "The Place 2 Be."
CJ Timon and his colleagues made sure Monday that New Haven’s new “place 2 be” will be a safe “place 2 be.”
by | Nov 2, 2022 4:12 pm | Comments (8)
At Wednesday's protest.
Teachers, parents, and other staffers at the LULAC Head Start daycare center on James Street rallied outside of the school building Wednesday in protest of the recent firing of one of their colleagues.
by | Nov 1, 2022 12:55 pm | Comments (33)
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Tom Breen self-reflecting at a 2019 Artspace exhibition.
New Haven Independent Managing Editor Tom Breen is stepping into the top editor role at the nonprofit online daily news outlet.
by | Oct 28, 2022 3:17 pm | Comments (9)
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Before he moves on from his city job next week, Martin Torresquintero is hustling to finish one last bridge to connect New Haveners to an overlooked nature wonderland.
by | Oct 25, 2022 11:30 am | Comments (16)
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Supt. Tracey: Teachers' union has claimed "unfair labor practice."
The Board of Education voted to rescind its previous approval of $5,000 sign-on bonuses after the teachers’ union criticized the incentive plan as being crafted without the input of local educators.
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by | Oct 24, 2022 4:57 pm | Comments (5)
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Local 33: Election cards delivered. Your move, Yale U.
Yale’s aspiring graduate worker union is one step closer to an election — now that it’s submitted “over 3,000” union authorization cards to a federal labor-relations office in Hartford.
by | Oct 24, 2022 2:39 pm | Comments (1)
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DeLauro on Monday: "This is the best part of the day."
In a “Developing Toddlers” classroom on Olive Street, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro got an up-close look at the severity of the child care staffing crisis — and at the joys and benefits of early education work.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.