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Michael Carter at a July 2024 board meeting.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) is down one more administrative lead now that operations and facilities consultant Michael Carter has wrapped up his eight months of city-paid work for the school district.
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Teachers union prez Blatteau (right): "The proposed 2.4% increase is not enough to maintain current staffing levels, in an already understaffed system."
Mayor Justin Elicker has proposed a $5 million increase in municipal education funding for the coming fiscal year — covering less than a quarter of the $23.2 million boost requested by schools Supt. Madeline Negrón.
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"Barack and Michelle Obama" mark Black History Month at BOMUS.
Scenes from the BOMUS "wax museum."
Black History Month ended with a bang at Barack H. Obama Magnet University School (BOMUS) Friday as students, families, and staff welcomed special guests “Barack and Michelle Obama” — in the form of first-graders Jacob Bell and Imani Winfield.
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The honoree (center) with family members Sean Hardy, Deana Mallory, and Byron Breeland.
She was a classmate of Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court; she was a member of the first Black troop of Girl Scouts in the United States; she became a major promoter of gospel choruses in the New Haven area; and her family founded the venerable Pitts Chapel United Free Will Baptist Church in Newhallville.
That’s why 103-year-old Mary Etta Atkinson Joyner, graduate of the class of 1939, was hailed not only as the embodiment of James Hillhouse High School history, but of New Haven and national history as well.
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by | Feb 27, 2025 3:43 pm | Comments (8)
(Updated) City police have arrested two students after one brought a BB gun to Wilbur Cross on Wednesday — leading to reports of a student with a firearm, and a subsequent school-wide lockdown.
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Reading reading reading, in a Barnard kindergarten class.
Two years after the school district switched over to a phonics-focused literacy curriculum, reading levels among New Haven’s youngest students are slowly but surely on the rise.
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Bless prepares to ride on the Wexler Grant track Wednesday with fellow second-graders completing a pilot bike-safety course.
Eighteen second-graders checked their tires and chains, fastened their helmets, and set off on two wheels Tuesday as the first cohort of a new New Haven safe-biking generation.
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At Monday's online school board meeting.
(Updated) Nathan Hale School is missing a certified second-grade teacher — bringing eight parents to ring the alarm bell at the Board of Education about their students falling further and further behind thanks to the staffing shortage.
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East Rock seventh grader Jeryl searches for frog's large intestines...
...while others check out the frog's tongue and teeth.
East Rock School seventh graders Leia and Lesly suited up in gloves and eye protection to pierce through the unexpectedly tough skin of a frog — and discover, through hands-on education, what a real three-lobed liver looks like.
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Student leaders bring the first new recycling bin to math teacher Julia Pisani.
New bins!
When Scandinavian assemble-your-own furniture retail giant IKEA dropped off 30 new recycling bins at John S. Martinez School in Fair Haven, student council President Christian Ayapantecatl and Vice President Geovanelys Morales were ready to receive them, excited to build on all the progress the school has already made in sustainability.
Continue reading ‘Martinez Keeps Going Green, With IKEA's Help’
by | Feb 18, 2025 8:42 pm | Comments (5)
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Daniel Juárez at a January Aldermanic Affairs Committee meeting.
The Board of Education has a new member in New Haven Public Schools parent, opera singer, and Yale fundraiser Daniel Juárez, who was unanimously approved for the position on Tuesday evening by the Board of Alders.
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Senior Lily Gonzalez: "Just had to get used to" not texting mom or friends as much.
NHA's wall-mounted locking and unlocking devices near school exits.
New Haven Academy’s hallways and cafeteria have gotten louder — now that the high school has become the first in the district to adopt Yondr pouches, leading to students spending lunchtime talking to each other instead of looking at their phones.
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Present at the ceremony, from left: Denise Morris, , VP Inclusion & Belonging, Employee & Labor Relations, Yale New Haven Health; Christopher O’Connor, CEO, Yale New Haven Health; Katherine Heilpern, President, Yale New Haven Hospital, Elissa Matthews; Kaeleigh Graham-Purdy; Janiya Greene, G. Brown Gervil; Raymond Lomax, Jr.; Ena Williams, Chief Nursing Executive, Yale New Haven Health; Jorge Rodriguez, Executive VP, Chief Ambulatory Officer, Yale New Haven Health; Pamela Sutton-Wallace, President, Yale New Haven Health and Melissa Turner, SR VP, Chief Human Resources Officer, Yale New Haven Health.
Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS) marked President’s Day by honoring five high school seniors who will receive $1,000 to help pay for their first-year college books.
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by | Feb 17, 2025 9:13 am | Comments (5)
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Don’t go breaking their hearts.
A group of students celebrated Valentine’s Day early by demanding that New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) spread the love and hire three coordinators to oversee the district’s climate change-combatting efforts.
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Michael Carter at Monday's Board of Education meeting.
Michael Carter’s contract as an operations and facilities consultant for the public school district will come to an end in March. Meanwhile, the district’s seat for a chief operating officer remains vacant.
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Snow troubles at Fair Haven School on Feb. 3.
The city’s public school district ran into trouble last week when its snow removal contractors “failed” in their plow work — and so now, after each snowfall, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) plans to have additional inspectors visit all building sites and evaluate whether contractors’ cleanup work is satisfactory.
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by | Feb 12, 2025 10:53 am | Comments (11)
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Typhanie Jackson: "There are some places where we have had some gaps."
High burnout rates, low pay, and insufficient state funding have led to an untenable shortage of special education staff in New Haven public schools.
School employees and parents conveyed that message to Education Committee alders — calling attention to lapsed services for some of the city’s highest-needs students.
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Blatteau: "If we can't be safe in our buildings, what else matters here?"
(Updated) The president of the city’s teachers union has filed a state workplace safety complaint against the public school district for persistent problems with mold, leaks, air quality, and other conditions concerns at New Haven’s two largest high schools.
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Future home for workforce training ... and housing and community space?
(Updated with NHPS comments) Mayor Justin Elicker dropped a hint in paragraph 46 of his annual State of the City address about the potential future state of the Goffe Street Armory: as the home for a new vocational school.
by | Feb 4, 2025 4:12 pm | Comments (2)
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Nunez (right) leads the way: "Like sports, the arts save kids."
“Get out your heads and get into your bodies!” Hillhouse High School dance teacher Millette Nunez instructed her students, as each of them danced to the upbeat rhythm of Afro-Caribbean guitar and drums.
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A partially cleared lot at Fair Haven School Monday.
A heavier than expected snowfall — and a late-starting snow removal contractor — left more than 20 city public schools to start their days Monday morning with snow partially plowed or not plowed at all.
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August has a snack while learning about Davis Academy, at the NHPS School Choice Expo.
Isabela Oliva and fam: "I didn’t go to school here, so I don’t know how to work it."
When parent Isabela Oliva arrived at Wilbur Cross High School, she brought her mother, husband, two kids, and dozens of questions about how New Haven public schools work — at an expo that took place as another magnet school application process is set to begin.
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Students dance alongside DeLauro, Elicker, and Paolillo.
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P.E. teacher Sharon Arnold gets her flowers, literally, for hosting Snowball event for the past 16 years.
Sixteen years after Fair Haven School gym teacher Sharon Arnold first came up with the idea to combine fitness with college and career readiness, she received her flowers for helping to inspire the post-high school dreams of dozens of Fair Haven students.
by | Jan 31, 2025 9:54 am | Comments (4)
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Seventh grader Laila Washington: "You get to learn a lot" at Math Counts.
Sohan Bendre (right) refreshes students on what a variable is.
If you write out the numbers from 1 to 1,000, how many times will you write the number seven?
That question was posed to a group of 6 – 8th graders at Edgewood School — who had shown up to a voluntary after-school program for students interested in further developing their math skills.
by | Jan 29, 2025 4:54 pm | Comments (22)
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Supt. Negrón: "This is a stressful time for many in our community."
If U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers attempt to enter New Haven schools, the school district will require them to present a warrant — which will then be reviewed by a legal team and the superintendent’s office.
Then, the district will notify guardians if a warrant specifically mentions their child.
Supt. Madeline Negrón notified New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) parents of that immigration-related update in an email Tuesday afternoon.