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Jan 6, 2025 9:23 am
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Hillhouse soars at latest Saulsbury Invitational.
Coach Saulsbury (right) with Olympic gold medalist Alexis Holmes and invitational founder Neil Richardson.
Under the bright lights of the Floyd Little Athletic Center, shoes squeaked on hardwood. Bodies collided and scrambled for loose balls. The 800 people in the stands groaned over every missed jumper.
The scintillating affair, between the Hillhouse High School Academics and the New London Whalers, was just one matchup in the annual Robert Saulsbury Basketball Invitational.
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Maya McFadden |
Jan 3, 2025 9:38 am
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Porto working as building manager during the school day ...
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... and as Wilbur Cross softball coach after class.
Andrew Porto takes pride in his daily work keeping preschool classrooms and hallways clean on Goffe Street — before heading across town to coach Wilbur Cross’s softball team.
“This job has been great to me,” he said during a recent interview about his three decades as a New Haven custodian and his two decades as a mentor for public school athletes. And there’s so much more he still wants to do.
Outgoing school board Prez Rivera (pictured) wanted another term; Mayor Elicker wanted "new energy and a new perspective."
Board of Education President Yesenia Rivera was interested in serving another four-year term on the school board — but the mayor decided otherwise, so now she’s getting ready to leave.
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Lisa Rodriguez |
Dec 19, 2024 2:18 pm
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This Citizen Contribution was submitted by Army Sergeant First Class (Retired) Lisa Rodriguez.
This month, James Hillhouse High School was honored to be a stop on this year’s Wreaths Across America convoy along their way to Arlington National Cemetery.
The school was tapped because of Hillhouse JROTC’s yearly participation in the National Wreaths Across America Day wreath-laying ceremony over the last four years. The convoy started in Maine and traveled for six days, making three stops each day at designated locations until they reached Arlington. They stopped at Hillhouse on Dec. 10.
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Maya McFadden |
Dec 19, 2024 9:25 am
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Cross club takes out the trash.
The banks of the Mill River are now that much cleaner — thanks to a small but mighty group of Wilbur Cross Environmental Club members who braved the cold to clean up eight full bags’ worth of trash.
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Maya McFadden |
Dec 18, 2024 3:41 pm
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21 Wooster Pl.: Some desks and books, no people.
A former school-turned-administrative office building in Wooster Square is still empty of people, though it may soon have furniture for future office workers to use.
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Maya McFadden |
Dec 17, 2024 9:37 am
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Mrs. G in class: "All group members' voices should be contributing."
A brick house with a raised foundation and a hardwood front porch emerged from the minds of Augusta Lewis Troup School science students — as they learned about designing resilient housing that can withstand strong storms.
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Maya McFadden |
Dec 16, 2024 1:31 pm
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Rolanda Booker with Supt. Madeline Negrón.
A former New Haven teacher who became a principal in New Britain is returning to the city to help the public school district fill vacancies and keep its educators.
School board nominee Daniel Juárez: "I believe that as a parent, I would be able to advocate for students and families."
Mayor Justin Elicker has selected a Yale fundraising coordinator and father of two New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) students to be the next member of the Board of Education.
According to Friday’s publication of the agenda for Monday’s next Board of Alders meeting, Elicker has picked Daniel Juárez to replace Yesenia Rivera on the school board.
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Thomas Breen |
Dec 13, 2024 9:26 am
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Little kiddos coming soon.
A nonprofit cafe and job training program for immigrant and refugee women has won city permission to open a worker-owned childcare center in the basement of a downtown church.
Jasanea Hernandez (left): A fair contract will "send a powerful message to our children about the value of hard work and dedication."
Local 217 in the house: "You want order, we want to eat!"
Amid contract negotiations, dozens of New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) cafeteria staffers called on the school district to pay them livable wages so they can keep their own stomachs full as they work to feed students.
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Maya McFadden |
Dec 11, 2024 9:41 am
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Board of Ed Prez Rivera: "I have served with integrity."
After half a decade of serving on the school district’s Board of Education, President Yesenia Rivera has announced that after her current term expires at the end of the month she will not return to the school board.
Wilbur Cross English teacher Kim Anderson had hoped that her days of rearranging her classroom so that leaking ceiling water fell into a trash can instead of onto her students’ heads were over. Turns out, they weren’t.
Schools Supt. Madeline Negrón: “I am ready to stand and fight for the education that every child deserves … regardless of their immigration status.”
Retraining city employees on the “welcoming city” executive order. Confirming public school students’ emergency contact information. Securing federal grant money in contracts as soon as possible, before it can be revoked.
Those are some ways that New Haven officials are preparing — not panicking — ahead of an anticipated immigration crackdown promised by the incoming president.
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Maya McFadden |
Dec 6, 2024 1:35 pm
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NHPS students with MATCH instructor David Feinberg.
New Haven’s annual holiday tree on the Green shines extra bright this year — as the ten-and-a-half-foot aluminum star up top was handmade by ten manufacturing students from Hillhouse and Wilbur Cross.
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Maya McFadden |
Dec 5, 2024 9:26 am
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At Betsy Ross's Winter Fest: High school performers, coming soon.
Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School (BRAMS) will have an inaugural ninth grade class next year — as the district works to transition the 5 – 8th grade middle school to a 7 – 12th grade high school in order to better accommodate students’ high demand for arts instruction.
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Zachary Groz |
Dec 4, 2024 4:00 pm
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Alder Caroline Smith joins East Rock School's bike club.
As temperatures dropped and a bitter wind bore down on Tuesday afternoon, a few dozen cyclists suited up in jackets and gloves, and filled the streets leading to East Rock Park. Coursing down Livingston Street, they breezed past Willow and Canner, hooked right onto Cold Spring, and circled back to Eagle, where their three-mile journey had begun.
The ages of the speedsters? Nine and 10 years old.
NHFT President Leslie Blatteau and Vice President Jenny Graves re-elected for another term.
Leslie Blatteau has officially won a second three-year term as the president of the teachers union — after running in an uncontested election conducted entirely by email, except for a single paper ballot.
Panelists Rev. Dr. Dan Heischman, Valerie Mara, and Salman Hamid.
Here’s a hypothetical: You’re a teacher thrown into a class mid-semester and you have to choose in those first high-anxiety days between prioritizing learning a curriculum utterly new to you or learning the (yipes!) 27 students’ names.
The late Daily Jackson, whose godfather described him as "an adorable kid who was bustling with energy."
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NHPS Supt. Negrón (right) on Wednesday: "Please know that these days are very hard for the school community."
(Updated) Seventeen-year-old New Havener Daily Jackson was walking on Shelton Avenue Tuesday evening when someone in a “suspect vehicle” shot and killed him and drove away — making him the second Riverside Academy student to die by gunfire in the past two weeks.
“These are connected,” Police Chief Karl Jacobson said at a Wednesday afternoon press conference, at which he described the two Riverside homicide victims as friends who belonged to the same “group” that has been feuding with another youth crew in town.
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Maya McFadden |
Dec 2, 2024 2:27 pm
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At Booker T. Washington Academy's Balloons Over State Street parade.
Aaliyah Staton, with Cherish and Kai: Showing up now helps kids when they're older.
Aaliyah Staton cheered on her son, Kai, and her niece, Cherish, as they marched in Booker T. Washington Academy’s first-ever Balloons Over State Street celebration.
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Zachary Groz |
Dec 2, 2024 8:14 am
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Classmates Robina, Faryal, and Ghofran, at Troup's annual multicultural luncheon.
Sitting around a lunch table draped in an aquamarine cloth and topped with festive fall ornaments, Robina, 10, Faryal, 12, and Ghofran, 12, giggled and cracked jokes, translating them into English after the fact, in between bites of fried chicken, bread rolls, and rice.
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Maya McFadden |
Nov 27, 2024 11:37 am
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Hillhouse Principal Billy: "We're better than last year."
Hillhouse’s average attendance rate so far this year is 84 percent — a number the high school’s principal credits to, and hopes to improve on, by paying special attention to making sure ninth graders come to class.
