by | Jul 26, 2023 12:06 pm | Comments (5)
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Andrea Downer with fellow Ward 27 co-chair Judy Sparer on Tuesday night.
Andrea Downer won the local Democratic Party’s endorsement in her challenger bid to serve on the city’s Board of Education, as two-term incumbent Darnell Goldson opted not to be nominated at the convention — and now must petition his way onto the primary ballot.
by | Jul 25, 2023 4:10 pm | Comments (2)
Kristina DeNegre: ""It feels amazing to be home again."
A former New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) principal is returning to the district to fill a long-vacant assistant superintendent post, after the Board of Education approved Madeline Negrón’s first executive appointment since stepping into the top schools role.
by | Jul 24, 2023 4:27 pm | Comments (9)
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Andrea Downer at Friday's joint ward committee meeting.
Andrea Downer took another step towards securing the local Democratic Party’s endorsement in her bid to unseat incumbent elected Board of Education rep Darnell Goldson, after winning the support of two Democratic ward committees in East Rock, and tying on the third.
by | Jul 20, 2023 9:27 am | Comments (1)
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I got your back: Alberto Wednesday with new mentor.
Huddled in the hallway, Wilbur Cross senior Alejandro Delacruz offered pre-game tips to incoming freshman Alberto Colon: Be confident. And keep your grades up if you want to be on the baseball team.
by | Jul 19, 2023 1:20 pm | Comments (4)
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A panel of educators has selected New Haven Academy’s Marco Cenabre (pictured above) as the city’s teacher of the year.
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by | Jul 18, 2023 1:37 pm | Comments (9)
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Summer Choate teaches students about syllables.
Inside a summer classroom, Ayanna Perez wrote the letters D‑O-T on a white board for King and Legacy to slowly sound out, rather than try to guess or memorize the word.
by | Jul 18, 2023 11:54 am | Comments (5)
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Downer makes her pitch Monday night.
A challenger to an incumbent Board of Education member won a ward committee endorsement Monday night in her quest to win the Democratic nomination.
Making bold strikes, Ward 19’s Democratic Town Committee placed their votes on challenger Andrea Downer, rather than on incumbent Darnell Goldson, for the Board of Education membership race.
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by | Jul 14, 2023 8:22 am | Comments (4)
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Rising third grader Machi codes a thunderstorm.
A digital thunderstorm rumbled into a Conte West School classroom of rising third graders who were in the middle of a computer-code-created camping trip.
by | Jul 12, 2023 1:59 pm | Comments (3)
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LULAC Head Start ED Mikyle Byrd-Vaughn: "Our services are impacting children's full development."
As a dozen preschoolers laughed and bounced around a fenced-in outdoor playground on Haven Street, city and state officials gathered in a Fair Haven childcare center’s parking lot to celebrate a $2 million early-childhood-education boost from the state.
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by | Jul 12, 2023 12:53 pm | Comments (2)
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Madeline Negrón at first official Board of Education meeting Monday.
New schools Supt. Madeline Negrón promised not to shake things up in the public school district until she has first had time to hear from school staff, students, families, and the community.
by | Jul 11, 2023 2:38 pm | Comments (15)
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City police found the dead body of a 19-year-old in the parking lot of Career High School on Sunday morning following an apparent fatal overdose.
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by | Jul 11, 2023 8:43 am | Comments (6)
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Supt. Negrón learning Hillhouse cheer from middle school students at Nathan Hale ...
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... and chatting with students at Troup.
The city’s new public school leader Madeline Negrón kicked off her first week on the job with some summer-camp cheerleading, the occasional selfie with enthusiastic staff members, checking in on a first-grade reading session, and working through the details of a new strategy to address chronic absenteeism with the help of local grandmas.
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by | Jul 7, 2023 9:22 am | Comments (11)
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First Student buses, OK'd for another year.
The Board of Alders “reluctantly” approved a one-year, $30.7 million school bus contract between the Board of Education and First Student that would have been nearly $1 million cheaper had the school board not turned down an initial multi-year deal with the bus company.
by | Jul 5, 2023 2:47 pm | Comments (6)
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A 2022 New Haven Climate Movement “Stop Climate Freefall” rally.
Young climate activists are calling again for the Board of Education to set aside funds for free bus passes for students to help New Haven’s public school district reduce air pollution and make it easier for students to get to and from school.
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by | Jul 3, 2023 9:50 am | Comments (10)
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Sarah Miller, center, proposes Board of Ed reform by charter.
Despite a push from dozens of New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) community members, alders decided not to amend the city charter to restructure the Board of Education to include mandatory seats for current public-school parents.
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by | Jun 30, 2023 12:20 pm | Comments (2)
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Book Award recipients with New Haven Links President Toni Harp.
Howard University, Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU), Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), University of Hartford, and Morgan State University are the next stops for seven New Haven high school graduates who each got a helping hand from a historic Black female advocacy organization to chase their higher-education dreams.
by | Jun 28, 2023 9:20 am | Comments (6)
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Newly appointed assistant principals Jonathan Berryman, Talima Andrews-Harris, Emma Papandrea, and Caroline Apgar.
Hillhouse, Coop, Troup, and King Robinson will all see new assistant principals next school year, thanks to the latest promotions approved by the Board of Education — which also said goodbye to the city’s superintendent just days before her retirement.
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by | Jun 26, 2023 4:33 pm | Comments (11)
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Lynn Brantley presents 2022-2023 spring reading data to the Board of Ed.
As Lynn Brantley bid farewell to the district she’s served for the past three decades, the soon-to-retire New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) literacy director offered a glass-half-full perspective on students’ small but mighty reading strides since last fall.
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by | Jun 23, 2023 12:03 pm | Comments (16)
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Hilaria Ogando joins calls for Board of Ed parent representation, more elected members, and mayor's removal.
Hilaria Ogando wants someone on the Board of Education who knows what she knows: what it’s like to have so many substitute teachers in her child’s school, to hear about persistent bullying, to lose the lottery for a coveted magnet school seat.
“Parents, we see what’s happening in the schools every day, and we see what our children need,” Ogando said through a translator.
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by | Jun 23, 2023 11:08 am | Comments (1)
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Schools Supt. Iline Tracey at WNHH FM.
Show you care. Even when you need to be firm.
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by | Jun 20, 2023 9:08 am | Comments (56)
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Socialist Scholars Party student members at the People's Center.
“Give our students better lives!” called out Wilbur Cross rising senior and Board of Education member Dave Cruz-Bustamante.
“Now’s the time to organize!” responded a group of fellow New Haven high schoolers.
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by | Jun 15, 2023 3:40 pm | Comments (1)
New Haven Academy grads (clockwise from top left): Taylor Council, Isaiah Becton, Thailyn Geter, Kyrell Carter, and Paris Feliciano.
New Haven Academy’s Class of 2023 took one last moment before graduating to recall four years worth of memories together — including singing High School Musical songs in the middle of classes, overcoming the fallout of remote learning, and putting on the school’s first ever theatrical production.
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by | Jun 15, 2023 11:57 am | Comments (4)
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NHPS COO Thomas Lamb: "Busing prices have increased."
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A one-year, $30.7 million school bus contract that is set to start in less than a month took another wheel-spin forward — even as local legislators criticized school board members for putting them in an unfairly tight spot.
by | Jun 14, 2023 5:37 pm | Comments (1)
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Newly minted Coop grad Imalis Cotto, with diploma ...
.. and cap displaying her favorite animal, a raccoon, painted by Oddo De La Cruz.
Coop High School theater student Imalis Cotto needed some help decorating her cap in time for graduation on Wednesday. So she called in friend and visual arts Coop classmate Oddo De La Cruz to lend a helping hand.
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by | Jun 14, 2023 3:47 pm | Comments (1)
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HSC Salutatorian Gian Rodriguez: "The future is ours to say."
Try to find a way to make the world a bit brighter than it is today.
Local artist Kwadwo Adae and High School in the Community Salutatorian Gian Rodriguez delivered that hope- and sorrow-filled challenge in separate graduation ceremony speeches Tuesday as they painted a path forward in Wooster Square Park.