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Schools | May 9, 2008

Why Linda Biehl Forgave Her Daughter's Killers

by Ranea al-Tikriti | May 9, 2008 9:47 AM | Permalink

What do you when someone kills your daughter? Could you forgive them? Would you talk to reporters?

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Schools | May 7, 2008

ECA Writers Going Places

by Staff | May 7, 2008 8:56 AM | Permalink

Five Educational Center for the Arts writing students have won national awards, topping off an honor-filled year.

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Schools | May 6, 2008

Mayo to Rell: Restore Kids' Future

by Allan Appel | May 6, 2008 5:14 PM | Permalink

(Updated 6:31 p.m.) The heads of the school system and the Board of Ed made a dramatic 11th hour appeal to the governor to restore what they called a devastating $2.3 million cut in the Early Reading Success program.

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Schools | May 6, 2008

Mayo to Rell: Restore Kids' Future

by Allan Appel | May 6, 2008 5:14 PM | Permalink

(Updated 6:31 p.m.) The heads of the school system and the Board of Ed made a dramatic 11th hour appeal to the governor to restore what they called a devastating $2.3 million cut in the Early Reading Success program.

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Schools | April 30, 2008

Get Your LCVTG Right Here!

by Allan Appel | April 30, 2008 4:54 PM | Permalink

These middle-schoolers invented a space suit, and NASA's taking notice.

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Schools | April 29, 2008

Schools Recognizined For Closing Gap

by Allan Appel | April 29, 2008 1:14 PM | Permalink

This woman came to pat the New Haven Public Schools firmly on the back for ranking first out of 12 urban districts in Connecticut that are struggling to close the achievement gap. She said to BOE members at their Monday night regular meeting: Buckle your seat belts, stay the course, and your pockets of improvement will have spread throughout the system -- in perhaps three to five years.

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Schools | April 29, 2008

Aramark On The Way Out

by Allan Appel | April 29, 2008 7:46 AM | Permalink

New Haven's public schools are moving toward managing their own kitchens.

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Schools | April 29, 2008

Aramark On The Way Out

by Allan Appel | April 29, 2008 7:46 AM | Permalink

New Haven's public schools are moving toward managing their own kitchens.

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Schools | April 28, 2008

Tough Bus Morning

by Staff | April 28, 2008 11:13 AM | Permalink

It was a more frustrating morning than usual Monday for families relying on First Student public school buses. Apparently several factors conspired. An explanation from the Board of Ed's Teddi Barra:

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Schools | April 28, 2008

Parents Confront Mayo

by Allan Appel | April 28, 2008 8:40 AM | Permalink

(Updated) After hours of public wrangling, New Haven's schools chief gave angry parents more than they asked for.

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Schools | April 28, 2008

Day Of Silence

by Paul Bass | April 28, 2008 8:07 AM | Permalink

45% of Common Ground's students participated; Gay-Straight Alliance sends this report.

Schools | April 22, 2008

BOE: Let's Protect Our Capital Investment

by Allan Appel | April 22, 2008 8:51 AM | Permalink

This woman's company is called Sightlines, but it has nothing to do with seats in the theater or architecture. She's about to be hired, in a pilot project, to help the city protect its $1.4 billion school construction investment.

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Schools | April 22, 2008

BOE On Call

by Allan Appel | April 22, 2008 8:10 AM | Permalink

Although his company is under pressure from unions, the Board of Aldermen and the attorney general , Andrew Butler, Aramark's executive director in New Haven, was pretty pleased with the reception he got at Monday's meeting of the Board of Ed's finance committee.

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Schools | April 18, 2008

Blumenthal Demands Answers From Aramark

by Melissa Bailey | April 18, 2008 4:43 PM | Permalink

After hearing allegations that the Aramark company stole rebates on food supplies from the Detroit Public School system, Connecticut Attorney General Blumenthal said Friday he would probe the company's track record in New Haven, too.

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Schools | April 15, 2008

A Mopper's Complaint

by Melissa Bailey | April 15, 2008 8:45 AM | Permalink

Rob Montuori has been mopping the Ross/Woodward School floors by hand since his trusty auto-scrubber broke down. He got revenge Monday -- support from his union's international head honcho for firing the Aramark company.

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Schools | April 15, 2008

A Mopper's Complaint

by Melissa Bailey | April 15, 2008 8:45 AM | Permalink

Rob Montuori has been mopping the Ross/Woodward School floors by hand since his trusty auto-scrubber broke down. He got revenge Monday -- support from his union's international head honcho for firing the Aramark company.

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Schools | April 11, 2008

Science Fever Rising at Columbus

by Allan Appel | April 11, 2008 8:29 AM | Permalink

"If I were looking for a neat invention to replace what I have in my kitchen at home, why would I bake with your solar oven? What's the advantage?"

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Schools | April 9, 2008

Students Un-Trash Their Park

by VJ Vitkowsky | April 9, 2008 7:57 AM | Permalink

How did the bed of a truck wind up in the woods along Springside Avenue in West Rock?

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Schools | April 8, 2008

214 Preschool Slots Planned For Dixwell

by Allan Appel | April 8, 2008 8:00 AM | Permalink

Newhallville's Martin Luther King School (pictured) was built 40 years ago, the year Dr. King was assassinated. It's now slated to become by early 2010 the city's new consolidated center for early childhood learning.

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Schools | April 2, 2008

Bria Works On Her 3-Pointer

by Paul Bass | April 2, 2008 5:33 PM | Permalink

As Career High's victorious girls basketball captains served slices of a celebratory cake at City Hall, a freshman Panther received her marching orders for regaining the title in years to come.

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