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Student composters Akira Torres, Zuhal Jamal, and Juliette Bolanos...
...and their life-saving food scrap stats.
11 New Haven Academy (NHA) students have helped to divert 3,285 pounds of food scraps from landfills so far this school year.
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by | Mar 22, 2024 11:08 am | Comments (10)
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Lincoln-Bassett parent Stacy Leslie: school pick-up is hectic.
Speed bumps are on the way to Newhallville. What, neighbors asked, about the schools?
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by | Mar 20, 2024 12:03 pm | Comments (24)
Slides from school officials' presentation.
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Toilets ripped from the floor. Stalls littered with writing. Destroyed ceiling panels. And human-sized holes in walls … can all be found in New Haven’s public school bathrooms, a mess that school officials promised they’re working to clean up.
by | Mar 19, 2024 2:51 pm | Comments (11)
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Chief Finance Officer Linda Hannans: Belt-tightening time.
New Haven Public Schools has placed a halt on most spending requests through the end of the academic year to close a $4 million deficit.
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by | Mar 18, 2024 1:58 pm | Comments (28)
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Career student Alexa Elias addresses citywide student council meeting.
What do New Haven Public School students want? Clean and functional school bathrooms. When do they want it? According to a vote by the citywide student council: NOW.
by | Mar 15, 2024 3:36 pm | Comments (4)
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Chloe (bottom right) with site director Michelle Reyes and teacher Lauren Safady at Friday's classroom reopening.
Wearing a unicorn-decorated shirt bearing the message “Kindness Is Pure Magic,” 3‑year-old Chloe danced through the ribbon-cutting for a reopened toddler classroom on Olive Street — as a leading childcare provider recovered from a pandemic-imposed setback.
by | Mar 15, 2024 3:33 pm | Comments (0)
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U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro greets early ed teacher Haley Gregory on Friday.
The following speech was given by U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the ranking Democratic member on the House Appropriations Committee and a longtime advocate for an expanded federal child tax credit and increased government investments in childcare, at a press conference Friday celebrating the reopening of the eighth and final classroom at the Hope Child Development Center on Olive Street.
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by | Mar 15, 2024 2:03 pm | Comments (3)
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State Rep. Robyn Porter helps serve food to neighbors and fellow politicians.
An all-boys charter school is gearing up to open this fall in a stately Dixwell Avenue building that neighbors stopped from becoming a methadone clinic two years ago.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Celebrates Community Organizing Win’
by | Mar 15, 2024 11:25 am | Comments (8)
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Math supervisor Monica Joyner: Moving in the right direction.
A year after picking a new K‑5 reading curriculum, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) is seeing steady growth in K‑12 math and literacy assessment scores. The district is still keeping its foot on the gas to catch up students who are more than three grade levels behind.
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by | Mar 14, 2024 1:06 pm | Comments (5)
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Parents Claire Roosien, Peter Butler, Vicki Grubaugh appeal to the Board of Ed.
Worthington Hooker School parents are pleading for a school nurse at the school’s K‑2 campus on Canner Street — a concern they initially raised to the Board of Education back in December.
by | Mar 12, 2024 2:42 pm | Comments (5)
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New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has again tapped First Student as its transportation contractor for the next four years, after searching in vain for two months for a competing bid.
by | Mar 12, 2024 12:54 pm | Comments (5)
Metro students prepare for fifth hearing this year that helps students to repair harm.
When students make mistakes at Metropolitan Business Academy, student leaders step in to help their peers take accountability, repair the harm caused, and accept supports to keep it from happening again.
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by | Mar 8, 2024 2:19 pm | Comments (28)
NHPS request: A budget without new items and with only contractual increases.
School board officials plan to plead for $12 million more from the city than what the mayor has put in his proposed new city budget — money they say would still cover only the bare bones.
Continue reading ‘School District Sees Mayor's Budget Bump — & Seeks $12M More’
by | Mar 8, 2024 9:32 am | Comments (2)
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Laureate Little with King/Robinson students.
Fifth-grader Aly Gaye knew where to start when New Haven’s poet laureate asked him to write verses about himself: My power lies in my brain, in my smarts.
by | Mar 7, 2024 1:01 pm | Comments (7)
Caysi Morgan and Isaiah Correia direct Young Minds podcast with ESUMS students Jaedyn, Mekhi, Mason, Kimora, Mily, and Kory.
“Quiet on the set, please,” said high school junior Isaiah Correia to six of his classmates. “And … action.”
The scene was the cafeteria at Engineering and Science University Magnet School. The six students, seated on talk-show couches, were about to launch another episode of “Young Minds,” a podcast focused on social issues that impact high school students. The topic of the day: bullying.
by | Mar 6, 2024 4:25 pm | Comments (7)
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Tomorrow's teachers? Metro "Educators Rising" students discuss student mindsets.
Some students remained after school at Metro Business Academy Tuesday to start getting a sense of what it might be like one day to come back — as teachers.
by | Mar 5, 2024 3:17 pm | Comments (0)
More members of Generation Alpha may be able to afford an Albertus Magnus college degree — thanks to $3.7 million in new donations going towards student scholarships.
Continue reading ‘$3.7M Incoming In Student Scholarships At Albertus’
by | Mar 5, 2024 9:45 am | Comments (0)
Students Monday outside the parked cARTie bus.
cARTie museum educator Nicole Pappo reads to students outdoors.
When asked “does art matter?” second graders Mercedes, Mason, and Elia agreed “yes.” Then they showed some of the reasons: Mason drew a sign reading “art = peace.” Elia drew a self-portrait. And Mercedes drew a rainbow, reading “I love art.”
by | Mar 4, 2024 2:18 pm | Comments (0)
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Ellen Maust reads aloud to Mauro Sheridan second-grade class.
In a second-grade classroom at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School students danced along to Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” after learning about the “Queen of Soul.”
Continue reading ‘"R-E-S-P-E-C-T" Kicks Off Women's, Music Month’
by | Feb 29, 2024 9:16 am | Comments (34)
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Supt. Negrón: Targets 60 percent student-teacher gap.
Schools officials unveiled a plan to increase the number of educators of color in New Haven classrooms by 15 percent in three years.
by | Feb 28, 2024 9:30 am | Comments (8)
Elijah Johnson with students at King/Robinson.
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Elijah Johnson walked into King/Robinson School classroom in his United Airlines pilot uniform — on a mission to inspire some of the students one day to take flight.
by | Feb 27, 2024 9:56 am | Comments (5)
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Ann Brillante: Coming home.
Ten years after she left Metropolitan Business Academy to become an assistant principal at Wilbur Cross, Ann Brillante will return in two weeks to helm the Water Street interdistrict magnet high school.
by | Feb 26, 2024 11:46 am | Comments (0)
Watch Friday’s fashion show above.
Long polka dot skirts from the ’50s, black leather jackets from the ’60s, and bell bottoms from the ’70s all made a return to Hill Regional Career High School as it celebrated Black fashion throughout the years.
Continue reading ‘Career High Black History Assembly Cruises Decades Of Culture’
by | Feb 23, 2024 9:27 am | Comments (2)
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BOMUS leaders and panelists Melanie Thomas, Dondi José Burroughs Sr, Gary Winfield, Shante Teel-Williams, Alisha Crutchfield-McLean, Gary Highsmith, and Jamie Baker-Vilsaint.
Third and fourth-grade scholars at the Barack H. Obama Magnet University School sat in an audience looking at their future selves through the lens of a business owner, health professional, schools superintendent, state senator, and a motivational speaker/author.
by | Feb 22, 2024 2:15 pm | Comments (4)
The following was submitted by Hamden Hall Country Day School.
After losing their 14-year-old son in a tragic bicycle accident in May 2022, the family of Zayne Ali Thomas of New Haven has established a scholarship fund at Hamden Hall Country Day School where he had been a student.
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