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Aug 25, 2022 9:33 am
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"Village" students pick up back-to-school supplies on Wednesday.
As Felix Feliciano picked up a pair of Jordan Six Rings Motorsports sneakers Wednesday night, the 14-year-old knew that, as he walks into his first class of freshman year of high school next week, he’ll be doing so step in step with the support system he’s found this summer.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro threw her support on Wednesday behind President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt for certain borrowers.
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Aug 23, 2022 1:35 pm
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Beecher's rental "chiller," on site on Tuesday.
Beecher School’s permanent air-conditioning system is still busted, and won’t be replaced for several more months.
But a rental “chiller” is being installed this week — and classes should be able to take place as planned starting with next Monday’s beginning of the new school year.
For the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, New Haven public school students will not have to wear face masks when they return to the classroom this academic year.
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Aug 23, 2022 9:44 am
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Tamya celebrates new back-to-school hairstyle on Middletown Ave ...
... as Tanya Solomon's grandsons pick up books on Valley St. Monday.
Tamia Massey usually spends more than $200 getting her two daughters’ hair braided at the start of every back-to-school season.
This year was different — thanks to one of a host of community-led events focused on helping families cut costs as students prepare to return to the classroom.
A North Haven-based regional arts education organization has purchased a two-and-a-half story law office building on Orange Street for $975,000, with plans to convert that site into school “programmatic” spaces after the current tenant’s lease runs out next year.
Iline Tracey testifies: New Haven kids will succeed.
“When I hear those numbers, it makes me cringe,” Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers told Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey.
Speaking at a public hearing, she was referring to New Haven Public Schools’ test scores from the past year, which officials have referred to as a reading and math “crisis.”
“Our students are resilient,” Tracey responded, and they need “indestructible hope.”
Farewell, flicks: Middletown Ave.'s Ciné 4, now shuttered.
Start the early ed: Friends Center's Schiavone, who plans to convert cinema into childcare campus.
The lights are off and the popcorn’s all gone from a decades-old independent movie theater on Middletown Avenue — which new nonprofit owners aim to convert to a bustling campus for affordable early childhood education.
The Board of Education voted to hire a new cleaning contractor for its schools this coming year, ditching a local Black-owned firm in favor of a Massachusetts-based company.
Rev Kimber: New leadership needed. Mayor Elicker: More funding needed.
New Haven needs a new plan — and new leadership — in order to improve abysmal student reading levels.
The Greater New Haven Clergy Association issued that plea Wednesday during a press conference at which Newhallville pastors laid into the Board of Education, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) administrators, and the mayor after a recent report showed that 84 percent of third-graders are reading below grade level.
The state plans to spend $35 million of federal pandemic-relief aid over the next three years on tuition assistance, faculty recruitment, and college-employer partnerships to build up the number of nurses and social workers working in Connecticut.
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Aug 2, 2022 5:55 pm
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Board member Mariam Khan: Let's still talk about better bus schedules.
Hamden’s Legislative Council has agreed to transfer $585,000 to the Board of Education (BOE) in order to fund school bus rides this September — reversing a previous decision that had sparked a now-shelved plan to change bus schedules.
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Aug 1, 2022 9:08 am
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Summer Artspace Program students, instructors, and TAs.
Artspace New Haven celebrated the culmination of the free Summer Artspace Program (SAP) with a community exhibition highlighting the work of six high school artists.
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Jul 28, 2022 10:00 am
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Audrey Tyson, Alder Sarah Miller, and Gov. Lamont talk education at Brazi's during one of the governor's New Haven stops Wednesday.
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Lamont in radio studio with hosts Jose Candelario and Norma Rodriguez-Reyes, and campaign Deputy Political Diretor Gabriela Koc.
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Lamont with Erik Clemons at ConnCORP: Talk to Looney.
Erik Clemons took advantage of a 20-minute audience with Gov. Ned Lamont to make a multimillion-dollar pitch — for bond money to help revive the commercial heart of New Haven’s Black community.
New year, old schedule: Dismissal at Dunbar Hill School.
Never mind.
Hamden students will start school at the same time as last year.
After two months of hand wringing and debate concerning how to rearrange student busing schedules in a last-minute move to stay within the lines of a level budget, the Board of Education voted Tuesday night to keep school start and dismissal times the same as last year — in hopes that the town will indeed steer extra funding their way.
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Jul 26, 2022 11:40 am
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Upping her game after school: Serenity Smith with tutor Charlene Cua at New Haven Reads.
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Newly released numbers show up to 84 percent of third-graders reading below grade level and district-wide numbers that officials called an “emergency” — while disagreeing about who should fix it and how.
State Sen. Gary Winfield at Newhallville stop-violence fair.
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John Carlson, fellow GOP candidate Eric Mastroianni at WNHH FM.
To Gary Winfield, the job of state legislator is akin to a long-distance runner. He sees the finish line in the distance: Better public education. Humane prisons. Fairer policing. The legislator gets closer every year, step by step, methodically making gains along the way, keeping the ultimate goal in mind.
That record of veteran service is a reason the Newhallville Democrat gave for why he’s running this year for a sixth term as a state senator representing New Haven and West Haven.
That’s a reason John Carlson, a Hill Republican, gave for why he’s challenging Winfield this year for the 10th State Senate District seat: New Haven Democrats have been in power too long, without producing the right results, he argued.
