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At Wilbur Cross' 102nd commencement ceremony.
Newly minted Cross grads Kayla and Makayla Edwards.
Wilbur Cross cheerleading co-captains and twin sisters Kayla and Makayla Edwards haven’t had a lot to cheer about over the past four years — until, that is, they did.
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by | Jun 14, 2023 9:29 am | Comments (7)
Baron Ramon Young.
A Michigan public school district child nutrition manager will be the city’s next top schools food official, thanks to a hire newly approved by the Board of Education.
by | Jun 14, 2023 8:58 am | Comments (3)
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Artist Adae with Common Ground student Leon Armstrong.
Kids with hands upraised half way between shouting hallelujah and playing volleyball with an immense sun. A green plant as imposing as Jack’s beanstalk growing out of the palm of one girl’s outstretched hand while goats, cats and two hens, notably a Buff Orpington and a Polish chicken, dash happily underfoot.
Those joyous images are at the heart of “Class of 2025,” a lush and engaging mural executed by long-time New Haven muralist Kwadwo Adae and the entire sophomore class (thus the title) at Common Ground High School.
by | Jun 13, 2023 4:54 pm | Comments (3)
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Kaniya Rogers and Alayjah Ford: "I’m feeling good and excited to be graduating."
Sporting graduation caps covered in colorful flowers and pink feathers, Kaniya Rogers and Alayjah Ford took advantage of the few moments before graduation to celebrate their time at Hillhouse High School — and to look forward to hoped-for careers in healthcare and cosmetology.
Continue reading ‘210 Graduate From Whose House? Hillhouse!’
by | Jun 12, 2023 1:34 pm | Comments (0)
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First Student school bus contract on tap for a one-year extension.
The Board of Education signed off on a $30 million temporary fix to make sure that public school students have busing this summer and next school year.
by | Jun 8, 2023 4:46 pm | Comments (14)
Caroline Rosenstone.
Dedication to Rosenstone and handwritten note from former student Natalie Beach in a new book of essays.
Caroline Rosenstone, who created and then for over three decades directed a writing program that turned high schoolers into skilled essayists and critics, died this week at the age of 70.
by | Jun 8, 2023 3:35 pm | Comments (3)
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Magda Colón: "Teach out of love and with love."
Colón with family at Thursday's celebration.
Just like during every other day of the school year, East Rock Spanish teacher Magda Colón came to work on Thursday ready to celebrate the hard work of her students.
This time, she was in for a surprise — when her students and school staff turned that praise around, and presented her with an award recognizing the impact she’s had on their lives.
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by | Jun 8, 2023 12:20 pm | Comments (4)
Renderings of apartment buildings one step closer to rising, clockwise from top left: Strong School, Chapel & State, Munson & Henry, Miller Street.
Alders paved the way for 212 more affordable apartments to materialize in four different neighborhoods — including at the former Strong School on Grand Avenue — along with two education initiatives for hundreds of kids and adults.
Continue reading ‘Strong School, Housing Deals Win Final OKs’
by | Jun 8, 2023 9:41 am | Comments (3)
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Newly minted GED graduate Raquel Cuiman with family ...
... at Adult Ed graduation ceremony at the Omni.
Six months ago, Raquel Cuiman was in a hospital bed fighting for her life against Covid for a second time.
This week, with the support of her family, friends, and mentors at the New Haven Adult & Continuing Education Center, she received her GED — and is now pursuing a dream to help others overcome the same health and emotional and educational obstacles she found a way to clear.
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by | Jun 7, 2023 2:45 pm | Comments (24)
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Darnell Goldson joining teachers and parents in person to watch and participate in a then-still online-only Board of Ed meeting.
Fresh from battling cancer into remission, Darnell Goldson has decided to enter the fray for another term on the Board of Education.
by | Jun 6, 2023 9:43 am | Comments (3)
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Lila Kleppner: Not going to eat that? Into the compost it goes!
When Wilbur Cross High School senior Lila Kleppner saw a classmate walking toward the cafeteria trash bin, she leapt into action — with a five-gallon bucket in hand, intent on diverting that student’s food scraps from a landfill-bound pile to a community compost heap instead.
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by | Jun 6, 2023 8:43 am | Comments (2)
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At Monday's Shakespeare-in-the-schools rehearsal.
Nineteen middle-schoolers, all dressed in black, filed into the band room of Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School. They were preparing for the dress rehearsal of their production of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
Before they took the stage, however, they partook in a light refreshment of fruit snacks, Cheez-Its, juice boxes — and grapes. When the students dangled bunches of the purple fruit from their hands, they looked for all the world like the Roman citizens they were about to embody.
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by | Jun 5, 2023 12:08 pm | Comments (1)
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Cesar and Giovanni Mendez at NHPS "Seal of Biliteracy" ceremony.
Sound School senior Cesar Mendez wore a purple cord to symbolize his bilingual superpower — and so that his younger brother Giovanni can now recognize him as the hero that he is.
by | Jun 2, 2023 10:55 am | Comments (1)
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Ahmad, center, prepares for launch with teachers Mac William and Michael Petrescu.
Ahmad Faiziah watched his first rocket soar into the sky — with his eye on an eventual visit to the international space station.
by | Jun 2, 2023 10:07 am | Comments (4)
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Josh Burgess, Alex Alvarado, Erick Russell, and Leila Ayers at Career pride celebration.
Career High School sophomore Alex Alvarado struggled to hold back tears as he listened to the country’s first openly gay Black statewide elected official — and a fellow New Havener — advocate on behalf of transgender students like himself.
by | Jun 2, 2023 9:13 am | Comments (5)
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Nector Santos at the head of the Clinton Ave bike-club-graduation pack.
If you genuinely want to grow bicycle culture in New Haven, start with the kids. And, specifically, all the kids, by making cycling a regular part of the physical education curriculum in the public schools. And just to be sure, carry it over into after-school cycling clubs as well.
by | Jun 2, 2023 8:42 am | Comments (0)
Theo Herzog, fourth from the front, with his crew.
Theo Herzog started out playing youth soccer in New Haven, and loved it. Then a knee injury sidelined him for good. Thanks to the Crew Haven program at the Canal Dock Boathouse, he discovered rowing — and got good enough at it to rank among the top rowers in his age group; he heads to Florida next week to participate with his team in the U.S. Rowing Junior National Championships, and is scheduled to compete later this summer to represent the U.S. in an international competition. In the above video, Herzog, a 17-year-old junior at ESUMS, speaks about his journey and his dreams.
by | May 31, 2023 3:38 pm | Comments (1)
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Chad Hutchinson with sons: "You see a difference in them when you're around."
Four-year-old Carter watched as the strongest man he knows — his dad, Chad Hutchinson — helped his older brother Damarion conquer the monkey bars.
Carter beamed with confidence as he knew that, with his father by his side, he wouldn’t fail now or in the future.
by | May 26, 2023 3:19 pm | Comments (2)
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The McKoy family wins the day at Celentano school art auction.
Not wanting to get outbid for a third year in a row, Nicole McKoy showed up to a Prospect Hill auction ready to spend big to be extra sure she’d win the drawings made by her two favorite artists — who just so happen to be her daughters.
by | May 26, 2023 11:50 am | Comments (3)
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Neil Geist with local oysters in hand and a fleet of student-built sharpies behind.
Freshmen Alex Spruill and Dan Lopez, who worked two months on restoring Tenacious's decking.
As a student at the Sound School in the 1980s, Neil Geist helped to build a full-size model of the historic New Haven oyster boat, a 35-foot sharpie called Tenacious.
The Tenacious was so perfect and sailed so well the folks at Mystic Aquarium wanted to exhibit her. But the sea gods were not as protective on land. En route the boat slipped off the trailer, on I‑95, and broke in half.
But the story is going to have a happy ending.
Continue reading ‘Sound School Saves A Sharpie -- & An Oyster Reef’
by | May 25, 2023 4:23 pm | Comments (15)
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ESUMS junior Leah Mock gives the board a D for its work on reducing waste.
Class was in session for the Board of Education, and the assignment was to help save the earth.
A report card handed out by student-graders about the school board’s work on energy efficiency, reducing food waste and transportation emissions, and investing in a healthy and sustainable future looked pretty bleak: three C’s, one D, and an F.
Continue reading ‘Climate Grades Are In ... & Don't Look Good’
by and | May 24, 2023 3:41 pm | Comments (29)
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APT patients Tito Cabrera and Tanya: Methadone clinic saves lives.
Daniels School security guard Al Heard: All the people hanging out, selling and using drugs in the area is not good for the kids.
John C. Daniels School teacher Jane Roth pleaded to the Board of Education to help save her school’s students and staff from having to see overdoses on the school’s property, used syringes scattered around the campus, and drug-users shooting up just outside the Congress Avenue bounds of where children learn and play.
by | May 23, 2023 11:56 am | Comments (7)
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Students released early from Coop Tuesday after lockdown.
Students at Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School spent more than two hours locked down Tuesday morning in response to a report of a student bringing a gun in a backpack into the building.
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by | May 22, 2023 3:49 pm | Comments (4)
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Tallying up Friday's school board election results at City Hall.
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Cross sophomore John Carlos Serana Musser.
Wilbur Cross High School sophomore John Carlos Serana Musser will be the next student representative on the Board of Education, after coming out on top in a three-way race for a soon-to-open seat.
by | May 22, 2023 12:49 pm | Comments (4)
A rendering of the future childcare site on Flint Street.
Ten new early childhood classrooms to accommodate 80 more kids in need of care are one big step closer to coming to an ex-Flint Street movie theater this summer, thanks to an approval by local land-use commissioners.