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A 55-meter race at Bowen field with 4th through 6th graders.
Four-year-old Kairo Johnson had her eyes glued on her mother standing behind the finish line of a 55-meter race, motivating her to speed past her opponents and take the win.
The race took place during a community track meet to celebrate a month-long summer track program run by Hillhouse track coach Gary Moore.
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PLTI Class of 2018.
Vimary Parra needed help. Her two young kids were already behind. They had to learn English. She didn’t know how to teach them. Having grown up in Venezuela, she was learning the language herself. Then she saw a flyer at her local library for the Parents Leadership Training Institute (PLTI) — an initiative that’s returning to New Haven.
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At Monday's trunk-or-treat on Ashmun St.
Baby Savannah practices candy crawling her own way Monday night.
Little mermaids, Minions and monsters gathered outside of the Connecticut Violence Intervention Program’s headquarters Monday — to take turns “trunk or treating” within a web of safety-minded community members and their cars.
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Parents debrief after storming out of Tuesday evening meeting.
Eli Whitney Technical High School’s response to complaints of sexual harassment and alleged rape have students and parents up in arms.
The past two days have seen a 100-student walkout and a charged parent-principal confrontation over the issue.
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Shandra Patton teaches preschoolers from her Troup classroom.
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Aiden Palmer at pre-announcment back-to-school event.
When Careene Stephenson broke the news to her 4‑year-old son Aiden Palmer that his in-person preschool classes would not start this November after all, he asked, “No school? No friends?”
by | Jul 21, 2020 1:25 pm | Comments (15)
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New Haven parent Nijija-Ife Waters, who helped plan for school reopening, is worried about safety in the fall.
Every New Haven student will have a laptop or tablet in the fall. At the same time, there will not be enough classroom space for every child to study safely in school buildings.
These are among the guiding assumptions of the emerging New Haven Public Schools plan for use of the education-focused Covid-19 relief promised in the CARES Act in March.
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Yale New Haven Hospital nurse Xavier Velez.
The Covid-19 patient was not doing well. As Xavier Velez tended to him, he was hit with a jolt — the patient reminded him of his own father.
by | Feb 25, 2020 5:25 pm | Comments (0)
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Mothers for Justice advocate and Clifford Beers mother Claudette Kidd.
New Haven nonprofit Clifford Beers has won $16 million to help the federal government understand how to fight opioid addiction by addressing all of a family’s health needs.
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by | Jan 28, 2020 4:09 pm | Comments (8)
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Parent Carmen Parker: “They sent my baby home a slave.”
A play aimed at introducing elementary school students to the horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade has instead sparked concern about how race is taught today in Hamden schools.
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endawnis Spears, with other speakers at forum.
Teachers feel unprepared to buck the way schools have taught about race and culture, gender and sexuality. But they can start with small changes as they push the district to do more, activists said.
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DeLauro sits with Zianna, 7, and her brother Jeremy, 6 in Jocelyn Square Park Monday.
New Haven will feed thousands of children meals this summer. It may be harder to do that next summer, thanks to potential changes to the federal funding that helps pay for the food.
by | Aug 28, 2017 12:27 pm | Comments (0)
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Squad greets Lincoln-Bassett students with cheers.
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Kids arrive for day one at John C. Daniels.
The little boy in the dark blue polo and khaki pants looked stoic and also a little perplexed as a line of adults cheered and smiled to welcome him to his first day of school Monday morning. at Lincoln-Bassett Community School.
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These swings have been off limits to kids for safety reasons.
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Nathman: Kids need to play
An old school could soon have a new parking lot and playground. And that’s good news to an award-winning principal who has struggled to find her students a place to get their needed 20 minutes of daily exercise.
by | Nov 25, 2016 12:35 pm | Comments (2)
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Clockwise, from top: the Slattery family; Adrian Haimovich and Sarah Murphy; Bruce Ditman with Sampson and Mila; Mandi and Scott Jackson.
Sitting in a drafty, castle-like Presbyterian church on Easter Sunday with my partner’s family, I could feel anxiety bubbling up with each hymn I didn’t know. Around us, the white walls of his church stretched out toward the ceiling like long, sinister fingers. The organ struck a round note. A light wind pressed at the side door, rattling its heavy handles.
My God, the God I had grown up with as a Reform Jewish kid — who wasn’t a being at all, but a set of principles around social justice and tikkun olam — was nowhere to be found. And that scared me, because it meant that there wasn’t room for another faith in my life or the life of my potential children.
by | Jul 22, 2011 11:19 am | Comments (27)
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For Joyce Winston, her new walk-in paternity testing clinic at the corner of Sherman and Goffe is not just a business, it’s also a mission. She hopes the clinic will help men discover whether they’re “the daddy” so others won’t have to go through what she went through — twice.
by | Oct 6, 2010 11:53 am | Comments (3)
Adriana, who’s recently traded in TV time for reading time with her dad, now has seven new books to choose from at bedtime.
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Tironda Newton plans to open an after-school center for city kids. She learned the skills needed to set her plans into motion from a newly revived parent leadership program.
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As city leaders unite in a stepped-up effort to tackle the achievement gap, Alderwoman Migdalia Castro said parent-led groups like this one are essential to that goal.
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by | Apr 7, 2009 8:54 am | Comments (0)
Talk about sex with our kids? We can do it! We did do it!
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It was one near miss too many for Muriel Hamilton and her fellow preschool parents and grandparents doing the “Calvin Hill Dash.”
by | Mar 1, 2009 1:53 pm | Comments (0)
If it can be done in the fairy tale world of Rumplestiltskin, why not in our own?
by | Nov 24, 2008 9:23 am | Comments (2)
The Greater New Haven Literacy Coalition sponsored a forum Wednesday, Nov. 19, on ways Connecticut communities, organizations, and families are seeking to cultivate and strengthen young children’s reading skills. Hosting the event in Hamden was the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, whose executive director, David Nee (pictured), served as principal speaker and moderator of the ensuing discussion.
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A single father in New Haven revealed to a televised audience the “sneak attack” that prodded his son to study. The secret weapon? Text messages.
by | Oct 26, 2008 9:41 am | Comments (2)
Therese White, 33, like many single moms, is often too exhausted at the end of a long week to find creative activities with her children on the weekend.
Continue reading ‘Single Mom PACKS In Learning With Her Kids’
by | Oct 20, 2008 11:40 am | Comments (0)
Working long hours as a taxi driver, Nelson Garcia finds little time to spend with his six children. So he was grateful when the parent involvement program Parents and Communities for Kids (PACK) on Saturday provided a great chance for some time, and learning, with his two sons, Anthony, 10, and Christopher, 7, pictured.