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| May 14, 2024 8:20 am |The following write-up was submitted by New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) spokesperson Justin Harmon about Monday’s celebration of Supt. Madeline Negrón’s Reading Challenge.
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| May 14, 2024 8:20 am |The following write-up was submitted by New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) spokesperson Justin Harmon about Monday’s celebration of Supt. Madeline Negrón’s Reading Challenge.
New Haven is hustling to find more white, Asian, and suburban kids for three inter-district magnet schools — or else face a potential fine for having too many students enrolled who are Black, Hispanic, and from the city.
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| May 10, 2024 8:53 am |In the school’s garden space, Clinton Avenue School fifth-grader Ari brought a magnifier close to a green, rounded leaf plucked from a dandelion and discovered tiny pearls — better known as caterpillar eggs.
She did so as part of an outdoor lesson led by Common Ground’s Schoolyards Program educator Melissa Fredricksen.
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| May 10, 2024 8:50 am |Walking to school is going to become a lot safer in the near future for students like Common Ground seniors Angel Mercado and Luis Diaz, as a half mile of new sidewalks connecting Brookside Estates and other developments with their Springside Avenue charter school are en route — as part of a suite of traffic safety improvements coming to the semi-rural West Rock corner of the city.
Continue reading ‘1 Small Step For Safety. 1 Giant Leap For West Rock’
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| May 9, 2024 1:35 pm |Former Principal Miriam Camacho returned to her old school in Fair Haven to encourage students to always hold on to their home cultures — and, when possible, to make sofrito from scratch.
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| May 8, 2024 8:06 am |Hill Regional Career High School junior Josh Burgess wrote the words “causes and effects of Salvadoran Civil War 1980s” inside a circle, and then drew lines connecting the words “historic inequality,” “murder,” and “oligarchs” to that circle.
He did so as part of an African American and Latino studies course that encourages students to understand how different parts of world history relate to one another — and that builds off of recent state legislation designed to boost the diversity of topics covered in Connecticut social studies classrooms.
Because classes were closed for last month’s presidential primaries, the last day of school for New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) this year will be Monday, June 17 rather than Friday, June 14.
Fair Haven School teachers took a quick break from keeping students afloat for the remainder of the school year — to receive thanks and complimentary root beer floats from the mayor and superintendent, as part of National Teacher Appreciation Week.
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| May 3, 2024 3:27 pm |More than 120 students are expected to graduate next month from New Haven’s Adult & Continuing Education Center — which is back open for in-person classes on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, after flooding caused the school’s now-repaired main building to close for nearly three months at the end of last year.
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| May 2, 2024 9:21 am |As New Haven Academy junior Melissa Rodriguez planted pink and red “Busy Lizzies” at school, she thought back fondly on the days of helping her grandmother in El Salvador tend to her vibrant flower garden and fruit trees.
That was the scene Wednesday afternoon as New Haven Academy students worked to liven up the school’s garden beds as part of a week of environmental activities at the 444 Orange St. magnet high school.
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| Apr 26, 2024 1:54 pm |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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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.
Continue reading ‘1/3rd Of Students Still Chronically Absent’
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| Apr 26, 2024 8:48 am |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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| Apr 25, 2024 1:33 pm |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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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.
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| Apr 24, 2024 8:35 am |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.
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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| Apr 18, 2024 4:04 pm |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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| Apr 17, 2024 11:37 am |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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| Apr 15, 2024 9:51 am |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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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?
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| Apr 12, 2024 11:23 am |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.
Continue reading ‘Speech Pathologist Promoted To Special Ed Supervisor’
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?
Continue reading ‘Parents To NHPS: More $ Needed For Schools Upkeep’
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| Apr 10, 2024 2:41 pm |It was not the time for inside voices on the Green on Wednesday morning.
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.
Continue reading ‘HBCU Prez Visits Hillhouse — With Acceptances Ready’