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Daniels band hits "Misty" at citywide attendance event.
Seven students showed up to school Thursday and brought clarinets and flutes to their lips — to help New Haven celebrate the fact that more kids are showing up in school.
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Cross's Sirraya Pratt gets off a shot against Shelton.
Malaysia Lavonna Haynes signaled Cross’s next play on the court with a raised fist in the air and set up her teammate Sirraya Pratt for an open shot.
by | Jan 12, 2024 1:26 pm | Comments (10)
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Huggins helps a Cross student scan in for a summer job.
Ronald Huggins made his way through the Wilbur Cross High School hallways greeting students with handshakes and a “What’s up bro?”
And a pitch to enter the summer jobs pipeline.
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Wilbur Cross and Wooster Square are going electric — or, at least, readying to keep electric cars going.
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Lady Governors on the road: "One, two, three ... TOGETHER!"
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Wilbur Cross's Gabi Rodriguez takes a three-pointer against Foran.
Gabi Rodriguez had a lousy day at school. You wouldn’t have guessed that watching her sink three pointers that evening.
by | Jan 9, 2024 11:24 am | Comments (3)
Hillhouse incoming principal Antoine Billy: On a mission to keep students' dreams from being deferred.
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Poster made by a NHPS paraprofessional for Monday's meeting.
The Board of Education heard about and took action Monday night on leadership of schools as well as the board itself, then received a plea from paraprofessionals for renewed contract negotiation.
by | Jan 9, 2024 11:18 am | Comments (34)
A parent of a Conte pre-schooler called on the Board of Education Monday night to figure out how to “rebuild trust” in the wake of an investigation into abusive classroom behavior.
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by | Jan 8, 2024 3:08 pm | Comments (1)
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Fulton pushes for a layup.
With eight minutes and 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Wilbur Cross sophomore Jackie Fulton leaped into action after a teammate missed a shot. She caught the rebound and reached up to bounce the ball off the backboard and into the hoop.
by | Jan 8, 2024 9:16 am | Comments (11)
(Updated Monday 6:49 p.m.) –Hillhouse High School is getting its fourth principal in three years, pending a vote by the Board of Education.
by | Jan 8, 2024 9:16 am | Comments (9)
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NHPS Food Services Director Baron Young: Backing up student ID numbers will avoid cafeteria traffic jams.
Faster lunch lines. More student feedback. Less wasted food.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) Food Services Director Baron Young has these goals in mind as he learns and works to resolve a myriad of food-related concerns six months into the role.
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by | Jan 5, 2024 3:26 pm | Comments (61)
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Negrón (at left): "This has to be done with community, not to community."
New Haven’s shrinking student enrollment means it’s time to start considering closing some aging and under-utilized public school buildings.
by | Jan 2, 2024 3:16 pm | Comments (7)
The Board of Education is looking to bring a new fleet of electric school buses to New Haven.
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by | Jan 1, 2024 5:43 pm | Comments (2)
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Downer swears in Monday at city inauguration.
Troy Wyile walked onto the Wilbur Cross High School auditorium stage Monday to present a bouquet to his former tutor — as she embarks on a new route to help young people up their learning game in New Haven.
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Dec. 21 special Board of Education meeting.
Hold your breath: New Haven is seeking state money to improve indoor air quality in schools.
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A mural painted in Hillhouse's cafeteria last school year.
Hillhouse didn’t have to give back any unspent money to the state after all — and was able to roll over more than $190,000 in last year’s school-improvement funds to the current school year.
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by | Dec 19, 2023 9:47 am | Comments (11)
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311 Valley: Future home of Edmonds Cofield Academy?
Rev. Boise Kimber’s plan to open a new boys-focused charter school has received a $2 million state boost — to help try to buy and renovate a vacant former public school building on Valley Street.
by | Dec 18, 2023 2:58 pm | Comments (0)
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Students sing loud and proud at Elm City Montessori's eighth annual Winter Sing.
Students, families, and teachers bundled together in the subfreezing temperature at Elm City Montessori School (ECMS) to lift their voices in song during the school’s eighth annual Winter Sing — which played out as candles flickered, under the silhouette of West Rock.
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by | Dec 14, 2023 3:28 pm | Comments (15)
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Paraprofessional Denise Roman gives Board of Ed a petition with 130 signatures in support of renegotiating the para contract rather than heading to arbitration.
Negotiations over a new contract for assistant teachers and parent liaisons has hit an impasse — as paraprofessionals cite too little pay, too much resistance from the public school district, and a contested union deal now heading to arbitration.
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by | Dec 14, 2023 10:07 am | Comments (3)
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Metro high school volunteers Bayan Albakkhour and Hagar Ali.
“This is mystery, this is history, this is sports, and this is romance, but she’s probably too young for that.”
That was the charming pitch from Bayan Albakkhour, a Metropolitan Business Academy sophomore, to a New Haven Public Schools parent and her curious 8‑year-old daughter — one of hundreds of students with their families who filled the lobby of Wilbur Cross High School for a “festival of books.”
by | Dec 12, 2023 5:43 pm | Comments (54)
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Hillhouse advocates (clockwise) Pamela Cummings, Sara Armstrong, Haruki Cubeta-Yonamine, John Saksa, Raven Mitchell, Karalyn Meineke, Leslie Blatteau, and Kevin Barbero.
All is not well at the city’s second largest public school, according to a group of Hillhouse High School educators and parents who raised the alarm to the Board of Education about overburdened staff, too many teacher vacancies, inadequate support for students, and inconsistent communication from school and district leadership.
by | Dec 12, 2023 3:34 pm | Comments (6)
Clifford Beers Community Care Center flyer.
A “full-service community schools” model — with expanded arts and athletic programs, and after-school support for families and students alike — is coming to two Fair Haven public schools, thanks to a five-year, $2.5 million grant recently awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to the Clifford Beers Community Care Center.
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by | Dec 12, 2023 9:00 am | Comments (17)
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HSC students with English teacher Amy Brazauski.
A TikTok-focused English project for High School in the Community (HSC) sophomore Diana Robles brought her to the realization that “when I read a news article, I sort of just believe what it says.”
Now she thinks twice — about where the story was published, and about its credibility and potential bias.
by | Dec 8, 2023 2:23 pm | Comments (2)
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Inside the Westville Community Nursery School.
Mud happens and wet happens and messy clothes happen and it’s all good.
Those are the words of author and play space designer Rusty Keeler about risky play, a philosophy that involves, in simplest terms, letting kids be kids, and is practiced at Westville Community Nursery School, a place where the tradition of jumping on mattresses has passed from generation to generation.
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by | Dec 6, 2023 11:17 am | Comments (3)
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Testing forces inside Kara Bartunek's third-grade class.
Conte West Hills School third graders Olivia and Deon played tug-of-war in their classroom — not to see who was the strongest, but instead to conduct a science experiment to learn about forces.
by | Dec 5, 2023 1:03 pm | Comments (4)
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Orchard St. shelter client Tony Briggs: "Whether it's mats, pads, or the floor, it's better than freezing your ass off."
Career student Aleika Pizarro: The new shelter is "actually a good thing."
Just before sunrise, Tony Briggs stepped out of the city’s newest overnight “warming center” at a former school on Orchard Street — roughly half an hour before Career High School senior Aleika Pizarro arrived early for classes right across the street.
Briggs left the shelter grateful for a warm place to spend a cold New Haven night. Pizarro arrived at school with compassion and understanding that all city dwellers deserve a safe place to lay their heads.
Continue reading ‘On Orchard, Shelter Night Ends, Then School Day Begins’