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Class of 2024 tree planted by John Martinez student council.
John Martinez School eighth grader Roselyn Sampedro’s dream to stay rooted to her middle school forever came to fruition Friday as she helped plant a crabapple tree — in honor of the Class of 2024, and to celebrate Arbor Day.
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End of March NHPS chronic absenteeism data.
Thirty four percent of New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) students have missed at least 10 percent of school days — a slight decline from the district’s January peak, but still above the district’s end-of-year chronic absenteeism goal of 27.5 percent.
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Sheila Lamb (right): "Your job right now is to be engaged."
As Mauro-Sheridan math teacher Sheila Lamb knocked on her seventh graders’ desks to urge them to participate in class, math coach Cortney Costa used her phone at the back of the classroom — not to play games, but to record Lamb’s model lesson.
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Wilbur Cross's pool: No swimming here this summer.
Three of the city’s five pools should be open for swim programming this summer, while two will remain shuttered for maintenance.
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by | Apr 24, 2024 10:31 am | Comments (16)
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New Haven Counts ED Ronald Coleman (center) and New Haven Reads ED Kirsten Levinsohn on Tuesday.
A citywide math and literacy tutoring effort has reached 1,700 New Haven elementary school students since launching nearly a year ago — and is now on the lookout for 100 more volunteer tutors this summer, on top of the 240 who are currently signed up, to keep the program growing.
by | Apr 24, 2024 8:35 am | Comments (4)
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Robles-Rivas: "You don't have to lose your identity to be successful."
Thirty three years ago, Evelyn Robles-Rivas moved to Connecticut from Puerto Rico to find a career despite not knowing how to speak English.
Now, the former Worthington Hooker School principal is returning to New Haven to lead the public school district’s work supporting multilingual learners.
by | Apr 19, 2024 2:01 pm | Comments (30)
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High school senior Thailynn Morehead, right, called for the budget to fund functional school bathrooms.
To 69-year-old Linda Randi, who’s worked as a paraeducator in New Haven Public Schools for 38 years, more funding for the Board of Education would mean “I wouldn’t have to work a second job.”
Specifically, she said, she’d no longer have to work a nightly six-hour shift waiting tables on top of her full-time classroom hours.
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11-year-old Avery with her favorite Black Raspberry Newhall Street soap.
Bassett Street smells like lemongrass and poppy seeds to 11-year-old Kauren, now that her favorite sweet-citrusy soap is up for sale in honor of the street where she goes to school.
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by | Apr 17, 2024 11:37 am | Comments (3)
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Brandon Haynes and Javon Culbreath on a mission: groceries first, then basketball.
Sixth- and seventh-graders Javon Culbreath and Brandon Haynes headed to The Shack to kick off their spring break playing basketball in the sun — and wound up grabbing some free groceries to take home, too.
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Future pilot and current kindergartener Harmonie Santaella with sister Dhaniellie and mom Dagmar.
Making good choices, being polite, working hard, building community, and becoming student council leaders earned students and staff at John S. Martinez School recognition as “Rising Stars.”
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by | Apr 12, 2024 4:42 pm | Comments (44)
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NHPS Supt. Madeline Negrón (second from right) at budget workshop.
Should New Haven wait until 2025 to begin closing some of its 41 schools? Or should it speed up that consolidation process and start this year?
by | Apr 12, 2024 11:23 am | Comments (5)
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Glynis King-Harrell and Sondi Jackson at Monday's school board meeting.
When she was still a student at Southern Connecticut State University, speech-language pathologist Sondi Jackson was mentored by New Haven Public Schools Speech and Special Education Supervisor Glynis King-Harrell.
More than three decades later, Jackson is now about to take up the baton from her former mentor and longtime public-school district colleague — but stepping into her role upon the latter’s retirement.
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by | Apr 11, 2024 1:09 pm | Comments (16)
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Jailene Ramos (right) and Supt. Negron at Cross-hosted budget talk.
Will next year’s schools budget have enough money set aside to fix bathrooms with no sink handles and school buildings that get too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer?
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by | Apr 10, 2024 2:41 pm | Comments (1)
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Stephanie Bartocetti (center), using her outside voice.
It was not the time for inside voices on the Green on Wednesday morning.
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Livingstone President Anthony J. Davis with Hillhouse senior Chamar Lee.
Hillhouse High School senior Chamar Lee came to school never having heard of North Carolina’s Livingstone College — until he was surprised with a visit and “opportunity of a lifetime” by the college’s president.
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by | Apr 8, 2024 9:27 am | Comments (12)
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Question: "Who's been shot at or knows someone who's been shot at?"
When nearly 80 students at Clinton Avenue School were asked who had heard gunshots outside their home before, almost every hand in the room went up.
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by | Apr 4, 2024 4:04 pm | Comments (1)
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Jessica Salerno's student artwork, entitled "Oil Drilling."
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A student-led tour of Common Ground exhibit.
In one half of the poster, a bright blue, clear sky shines down on wildflowers and healthy animals surrounded by lush trees and a flowing stream. In the other half, the stream and the field are filled with litter. The world has caught fire, emitting deathly pollutants
That was an art piece by fifteen-year-old Aaliyah Jones and seven of her peers displayed at Common Ground High School — all of whom sought to share both their optimism and their fears around a climate change-impacted future.
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Cross GSA: Zulaikha Khan, Alejandro Zacatelco, Levi, Jaime Soares, Gema, and Mikey.
Pins made by Cross GSA for teachers to wear and put up in classrooms.
More “You Are Safe With Me” pins and “This Is A Safe Place” stickers are popping up around Wilbur Cross High School hallways thanks to the efforts of the school’s recently revived Gender & Sexuality Alliance (GSA).
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Janae Nelson, right, conducting a class at Cross.
Instead of English educator Akimi Nelken being at the head of her Wilbur Cross High School classroom, a trio of students took a turn leading the day’s lessons.
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Feras on the job on Nash Street.
Feras celebrated his first job in the U.S. Monday morning by walking into traffic — and slowing down cars.
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Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment Keisha Redd-Hannans.
The Board of Education has approved renewing the contracts of five high-level New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) administrators.
by | Mar 27, 2024 1:40 pm | Comments (3)
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Ms. Colon's 2nd grade classroom, which took home the John C. Daniels first place March Madness prize last year.
It’s game on for New Haven students: They’re about to embark on citywide school-versus-school contests — not over basketball or soccer, but attendance and reading.
by | Mar 26, 2024 4:18 pm | Comments (5)
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Derek Silva and company use iPhones to capture Peabody reopening.
Joanna Romberg shows the crew a fossilized fish.
The reborn Peabody Museum unlocked its doors Tuesday and ushered in a new era of kids ready to roam renovated dinosaur rooms — as the kids unlocked their iPhones.
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Alejandro Zacatelco: "I was really confused and scared."
Wilbur Cross junior Alejandro Zacatelco offered advice to 100 middle-schoolers transitioning to high school — advice he never got due to the Covid pandemic.
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by | Mar 25, 2024 3:30 pm | Comments (33)
A red oak...
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... and an evergreen partner planted side by side Monday morning.
Tree planters trudged through the mud at Kimberly Field to position a red oak in the ground — and pledged to plant 1,000 new trees in New Haven a year, one sapling at a time.