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Hillhouse junior Johanelyz Arroyo (center): "Hear us out."
Elevating the voices of 19,000 New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) students may no longer fall just on the Board of Education’s two student representatives — if the school district agrees to a new “liaison” role drafted up by city high schoolers.
Jaqualine Rosales is no stranger to moving. After leaving her family in El Salvador, she lived for a time in Texas, and then in South Carolina. Now in New Haven, the 18-year-old Hillhouse High School student lives by herself. She doesn’t feel alone, though.
“I’ve been to a lot of schools and I’ve seen a lot of education [in] different ways,” Rosales said on Thursday at a press conference calling for deeper state investments to help young people who might otherwise fall through the cracks. “But New Haven has something special because this school feels like [a] second home to me…it feels like family.”
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Nov 22, 2024 10:53 am
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School snow to be removed by contractors, only.
New Haven Public School (NHPS) has hired three outside contractors for snow removal this winter — thereby icing out the custodial union from the cold season lineup, due to the district’s current lack of working in-house snow plow vehicles.
Majority Leader Richard Furlow to Board of Ed: "Get it together."
The Board of Alders issued a lifeline — along with a warning — to the Board of Education, as they unanimously approved transferring $8.5 million from the city’s surplus for the school system’s use.
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Nov 19, 2024 9:37 am
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Update: Tuesday 11:37 a.m. A maintenance crew has repaired a broken heating system at Edgewood School, and the heat is back on in the building, schools spokesperson Justin Harmon reported Tuesday morning.
“The first of the two pumps has been repaired and reinstalled,” Harmon told the Independent.
Assistant Principal Clarino and Principal Gethings: To be separated come January?
Worthington Hooker parents and teachers are looking for answers about the uncertain future of their school’s leadership — including at Board of Education meetings, where some have spoken out against potential plans to transfer the East Rock elementary and middle school’s assistant principal.
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Nov 15, 2024 2:47 pm
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Bohannon, on the job 27 years and counting: "I make myself available to make the ship run smooth."
Kindergarteners greeted Benjamin Jepson Building Manager Mark Bohannon with hugs and fist bumps as the school’s top custodian prepared to escort them from the gym to their classrooms — as part of a daily morning ritual that goes well beyond taking out the trash.
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Nov 13, 2024 3:58 pm
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Director of Professional Learning and Leadership Development Edith Johnson: “This will be a game changer."
Yale Teaching Fellowship timeline for first cohort.
The school district’s retention and recruitment efforts just got a $10 million boost, thanks to a new Yale-funded fellowship to support teacher certification as part of a joint effort between the city, Yale University, Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU), and New Haven Promise.
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Nov 13, 2024 8:34 am
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Nike Bonhomme: "This is a huge achievement for me."
Bonhomme celebrates her award with her former teacher, Da'Jhon Jett.
When Troup School eighth grader Nike Bonhomme got on stage and her school auditorium filled with cheers to celebrate her surpassing her math goal last year, she was filled with motivation to do it all again this year.
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Nov 11, 2024 8:57 am
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Cross's library: Back open, but still with old carpeting.
Wilbur Cross High School’s library is back open after a month-long mold closure — and new vinyl flooring will be coming soon to replace the room’s mold-prone carpeting.
The racist post-election text messages being sent to Black students around the country have also targeted some New Haven students, according to school district leaders.
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Nov 8, 2024 9:05 am
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Da'Jhon Jett magnetically unlocks students' phones during Wednesday dismissal at Troup.
Troup School has officially kickstarted its phone-ban rollout, and saw that throughout the day, students participated in class more and were less distracted — even if students said it was “awkward” and even “scary” to be without their phones.
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Nov 5, 2024 8:04 am
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21 Wooster Pl: Recipient of 8.5% of ESSER building-repair funds.
A former school building in Wooster Square has yet to reopen as an administrative office building — even after two years and $1.2 million worth of renovations.
Teachers union Prez Blatteau: Running uncontested for 3 more years.
The polls are now open for the New Haven teachers union elections — and first-term incumbent President Leslie Blatteau is running unopposed at the top of the ticket.
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Oct 28, 2024 10:13 am
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Principal Foreman: On a mission to "Transform Troup."
As more than 90 percent of Troup School’s students have been showing up for classes so far this year, Troup School Principal Eugene Foreman showed up to a Morris Cove gala — to be recognized for helping turn around the reputation of a state-designated “turnaround” school.
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Oct 25, 2024 12:57 pm
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Ex-operation chief's name, image, "call 911" warning, as pictured at 54 Meadow on Oct. 9.
Earlier this month, a sign posted behind the front desk of the public school district’s central office building included the message “Call 911” alongside the name and picture of now-former New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) Chief Operating Officer (COO) Thomas Lamb.
That sign’s now gone — but questions remain as to why it was put up in the first place.
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Oct 25, 2024 10:51 am
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Supt. Negrón (center): School security down from 100 in 2010, to 56 today.
The number of security guards in city public schools is down 44 percent in more than a decade, resulting in a shortage that sometimes forces the district to shuffle officers around to multiple schools over the course of a single day.
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188 Bassett, all cleared for Adult Ed renovations.
The Elicker administration won a key city approval for the planned relocation of Adult Ed from the Hill to Newhallville, as the City Plan Commission signed off on “gut” renovations of a long-vacant Bassett Street building.
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Oct 21, 2024 1:01 pm
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NHPS' total Covid-relief allocations over the past four years.
Snapshots of new programming at Edgewood thanks to American Rescue Plan dollars.
An outdoor garden and learning space, college courses at Columbia University, and two full-time academic tutors were just a few of the school-boosting services made possible at three of New Haven’s public schools thanks to $126 million in one-time, now-spent federal pandemic-relief funding.
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Oct 18, 2024 4:17 pm
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Ann Moore: Eager to learn sign language alongside the babies in her new classroom.
Coming soon to a theater near you is a classroom of babies learning ASL alongside their ABCs.
That is, a former theater — the old Cine 4 movie theater at 25 Flint St., which on Monday will reopen as four infant-and-toddler classrooms as well as a new administrative hub for Friends Center for Children.
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Oct 17, 2024 11:55 am
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Barnard Principal Stephanie Skiba shows off a Yondr pouch, where the cellphone goes.
All New Haven public elementary and middle school students will have to stow their phones in magnetically sealed “Yondr” pouches starting in January — per a new districtwide policy designed to minimize pocket-buzzing distractions by creating cellphone-free learning environments.
