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Kirsten Hopes-McFadden and Ashley Stockton.
As the city’s public school district struggles to fill classrooms with permanent teachers, veteran local educators spoke out about feeling disrespected and underappreciated six weeks into a school year increasingly defined by a teacher shortage.
by | Oct 6, 2022 9:58 am | Comments (2)
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Friends Makayla Golett and Faye Ford (pictured) disagree on whether or not metal detectors are warranted.
More than half a year after Hamden schools’ leadership first purchased metal detectors as an “emergency” safety intervention, the Board of Education (BOE) is drafting protocols to govern how the security devices are used.
Continue reading ‘School Metal Detector Rules Drafted, Debated’
by | Oct 2, 2022 3:01 pm | Comments (49)
John Tarka: It's been real.
Newly instated Wilbur Cross High School Principal John Tarka announced he is leaving his role as leader five weeks into the academic year.
Continue reading ‘Cross Principal Bolts After 5 Weeks Of Classes’
by | Sep 30, 2022 10:28 am | Comments (3)
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NHPS Supervisor of Literacy Lynn Brantley presents plan at City Hall hearing.
Committee alders welcomed the New Haven Public Schools’ (NHPS) new math and literacy plan — which officials claimed may shift towards a more phonics-based “structured” reading program — while questions arose about whether the draft proposal is complete enough to effect significant needed change.
by | Sep 29, 2022 5:16 pm | Comments (2)
Approximately 1,000 students may be turned away from school Friday if families don’t meet the submission deadline for their students’ health immunization forms this year.
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by | Sep 28, 2022 3:35 pm | Comments (10)
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District's new reading plan improvements.
Top public school administrators have have drafted an “enhanced literacy and math plan” in response to months of public outcry from teachers, students, and parents about a learning crisis in city classrooms.
by | Sep 28, 2022 1:44 pm | Comments (10)
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Climate activists outside City Hall in 2019.
The Board of Education has accepted climate activists’ challenge to reduce the public schools system’s carbon footprint — by unanimously approving a new “climate emergency” resolution put forward by the New Haven Climate Movement (NHCM).
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by | Sep 21, 2022 3:41 pm | Comments (2)
(Updated) School officials reported two incidents Wednesday involving psychoactive “edibles.”
In the first incident, three Bishop Woods School eighth-graders were taken to the hospital after sharing a likely cannabis-infused treat that made them sick.
by | Sep 15, 2022 5:20 pm | Comments (0)
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Judge Robinson with Mauro seventh graders.
Retired Superior Court Judge Angela Robinson ordered seventh and eighth-grade students at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School Thursday to chase their dreams.
by | Sep 14, 2022 3:07 pm | Comments (2)
Renderings of the proposed middle school addition.
A 2018 proposal to move sixth graders out of elementary classrooms and into an expanded middle school is one step closer to fruition following site plan approval from Hamden’s Planning and Zoning Commission.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Middle School Expansion Plan Approved’
by | Sep 13, 2022 3:42 pm | Comments (11)
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Streets: Saw teachers respected, students supported.
Carolyn Streets returned to her English language arts classroom at Engineering and Science University Magnet School (ESUMS) with new insights into how to teach reading in a supportive environment — gained from a six-month sabbatical at a place known for doing it well.
by | Sep 13, 2022 3:41 pm | Comments (7)
Leslie Blatteau and Iline Tracey: working to keep teachers and fill vacancies.
The New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) are offering teachers a chance to put extra money in their pockets in return for taking extra shifts in the district’s dozens of empty classrooms.
by | Sep 13, 2022 3:40 pm | Comments (6)
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Eco-Urban Pioneers President Abdussabur on Monday.
Eco-Urban Pioneers (EUP), a locally owned custodial company, has gone to court to fight a decision by the Board of Education to go with a Massachusetts-based company called S.J. Services rather than renew its former school cleaning contract.
Continue reading ‘Local Firm Sues NHPS Over Cleaning-Contract Loss’
by | Sep 13, 2022 3:38 pm | Comments (7)
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Ed board member Darnell Goldson at Monday's alder hearing.
Board of Education member Darnell Goldson took on the role of whistleblower as he criticized the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) contracting process as unduly shielded from public oversight, and as overly favorable to the current school bus provider.
by | Sep 13, 2022 3:07 pm | Comments (2)
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The Board of Education Monday evening approved the promotion of Peter Solomon (pictured) to the position of coordinator of aquaculture at Sound School.
Continue reading ‘City Native Tapped As Sound's Aquaculture Chief’
by | Sep 9, 2022 3:04 pm | Comments (13)
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Commercial tenants at 881-883 Whalley (pictured) can stay put for the duration of their leases.
A Fair Haven Heights-based early childhood education nonprofit continued its citywide expansion by purchasing two adjacent commercial buildings in Westville Village for $1.995 million.
Continue reading ‘Property Sales Roundup: Early Ed Center Expands’
by | Sep 5, 2022 4:29 pm | Comments (15)
Hillhouse High School’s new principal ended his first week on the job with a community-wide apology.
Continue reading ‘Pep-Rally Put-Down Of People With Disabilities Prompts Principal Apology’
by | Sep 2, 2022 2:07 pm | Comments (15)
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Under new SRO policy, Hamden High Student Resource Officer Jeremy Brewer will no longer wear above-pictured tactical vest.
As school-based cops joined Hamden students in returning to the hallways this week, local leaders caught up on a late assignment: Writing rules for what the officers should or should not be doing in academic environments.
by | Aug 31, 2022 1:02 pm | Comments (4)
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Highsmith prepares to greet Ridge Hill students for new year.
Hamden’s new superintendent and assistant superintendents popped into schools town-wide on the first day of class with a promise to keep showing up in person — and to help the district pivot to a “new normal” boasting both community and curricula coherence following years of pandemic-impacted education.
by | Aug 30, 2022 4:46 pm | Comments (17)
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Rendering of Bassett Street building.
After hours of heated debate, a divided Board of Education voted to move its adult education center from the Boulevard to the former state social-services building on Bassett Street.
by | Aug 30, 2022 9:20 am | Comments (14)
A math error led New Haven to have 179 days of public school this past academic year instead of the state-mandated 180.
Continue reading ‘Superintendent: NHPS's School Year Fell Short By 1 Day’
by | Aug 30, 2022 8:46 am | Comments (1)
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Samod Rankins, Karl Jacobson, Regina Rush-Kittle, Apostle Thelma Brown, Pastor Steele, and Daniel Hunt.
Local leaders primarily involved in public safety efforts were recognized as lifetime achievers in community service by a faith-based university — and the nation’s president.
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by | Aug 29, 2022 2:03 pm | Comments (3)
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State Sen. Gary Winfield welcomes back Obama students.
The song “Happy” by Pharrell played on a speaker as students walked past a cheering crowd, balloons, and a rainbow door fringe at 8 a.m. Monday for the start of a hope-filled new academic year at Barack Obama Magnet and 43 other city public schools.
by | Aug 26, 2022 1:50 pm | Comments (2)
A sample school wall poster.
When Hamden students step out of summer break and back into the classroom next week, they’ll be starting the school year in-person and unmasked for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Schools Prepare For "Normal" First Day Back’
by | Aug 25, 2022 10:20 am | Comments (5)
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Phara Dorleans: "I'm not giving up on the kids."
A city celebration of educators and school staff reminded Mauro-Sheridan Magnet School French teacher Phara Dorleans of the moments that have kept her in the profession for seven years and counting.
At the top of that list: When her then-kindergarten student cried all weekend to her father, “I want to go to school to see mademoiselle. I miss her!”