NHPS Aims For 1/3 Teachers Of Color
| Feb 29, 2024 9:16 am |Schools officials unveiled a plan to increase the number of educators of color in New Haven classrooms by 15 percent in three years.
Schools officials unveiled a plan to increase the number of educators of color in New Haven classrooms by 15 percent in three years.
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| Feb 27, 2024 9:56 am |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.
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| Feb 15, 2024 12:40 pm |A bar has been barred from expanding its hours — after a plea by the owners of Emojiis on Middletown Avenue got more thumbs down than smiley faces from local police and next-door neighbors.
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| Feb 5, 2024 1:29 pm |In December, Michelle Robinson graduated from the city’s program for new entrepreneurs. Last week, she and her husband Jazz Stair celebrated the grand opening of WaveMAX, their new laundromat in Quinnipiac Meadows.
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| Jan 25, 2024 12:01 pm |New Haven has seen fewer shots fired these days — in part because of the arrest of a street gang “honcho” who has pleaded guilty to firing shots meant to kill.
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| Jan 8, 2024 9:16 am |Faster lunch lines. More student feedback. Less wasted food.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) Food Services Director Baron Young has these goals in mind as he learns and works to resolve a myriad of food-related concerns six months into the role.
Continue reading ‘NHPS Food Chief Seeks Shorter Cafeteria Lines’
The city has officially purchased a Foxon Boulevard hotel for $6.9 million, and is now busy converting it into a non-congregate homeless shelter that the Elicker administration said it hopes to open before Christmas.
And the housing authority has closed on its $21 million acquisition of more than eight acres of Union Station-facing vacant land that used to house the Church Street South apartment complex, and is about to embark on a year-long planning process to determine how best to transform that empty expanse.
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| Oct 27, 2023 1:46 pm |A New Haven native and Yale New Haven Hospital secretary is running unopposed to become the next alder for Ward 12 — with a focus on finding some way to calm traffic on the neighborhood’s car-crazy stretch of Rt. 80.
Continue reading ‘Rt. 80 Traffic Top Of Mind For Next Ward 12 Alder’
As 85-year-old Raisa pulled up a photograph of her daughter on her iPhone, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy took a break from walking across Fair Haven Heights to ask her a question.
“Is she safe?”
The Board of Alders overwhelmingly approved the Elicker administration’s plans to spend $6.9 million in mostly federal funds to purchase the 56-room Days Inn hotel on Foxon Boulevard and convert it into a non-congregate homeless shelter.
Fed up with waking up to the rancid stench of flooded sewage in her apartment building’s basement, Hope started knocking on some of her neighbors’ doors at 1275 – 1291 Quinnipiac Ave.
Within six weeks, Hope had joined with other organizers with the Connecticut Tenants Union to gather 21 signatures from residents of the building’s 20 units. They officially filed the paperwork to become New Haven’s third and fastest-to-form tenants union on Wednesday afternoon.
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| Aug 23, 2023 9:02 am |A bag full of fresh peaches, Frosted Flakes, bread, milk, and peanut butter was packed to its brim and readied for delivery to a New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) family in need during the final week before school begins.
The Days Inn hotel on Foxon Boulevard will become New Haven’s first non-congregate homeless shelter to serve both individuals and families by this upcoming winter, if an Elicker administration proposal comes to fruition.
Continue reading ‘City Eyes Hotel-To-Homeless Shelter Conversion’
A New York-based private equity real estate group has purchased a low-income Quinnipiac Meadows apartment complex for nearly $17.7 million.
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| Jun 7, 2023 8:56 am |Voices lifted in exuberant song outside a movie theater overlooking Middletown Avenue?
Just a few years ago, a scene like that might have been unthinkable at the scruffy but beloved Cine 4 theater that closed last year after 51 years in operation.
The occasion was a sneak peek of Friends Center Flint Street — named for the pitted drive that leads up to the familiar flat-top white building where a local childcare nonprofit plans to build a new early education campus.
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| May 22, 2023 12:49 pm |Ten new early childhood classrooms to accommodate 80 more kids in need of care are one big step closer to coming to an ex-Flint Street movie theater this summer, thanks to an approval by local land-use commissioners.
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| Apr 26, 2023 12:25 pm |A local engineer won city permission to build seven apartments in Quinnipiac Meadows for seniors hoping to spend their final years in their own homes.
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| Mar 23, 2023 2:08 pm |The corn will keeping popping at the central ticketing-and-candy counter of the old Cine 4 movie theater — even as that entryway fixture is converted into a reception desk for a planned new early education campus now in the works on Middletown Avenue.
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| Feb 10, 2023 4:33 pm |Hulya Elevli has spent every day this week sorting through donations at the Diyanet Mosque in Quinnipiac Meadows while coordinating with earthquake refugees to help them find shelter in a house she owns in northern Turkey.
On Friday morning, the end of a restless week and the mere beginning of a coordinated response to the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that ravaged parts of Turkey and Syria and that has caused at least 23,000 fatalities, Elevli joined members of the mosque at 531 Middletown Ave. and U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal to speak up about the need that exists abroad and offer guidance to locals about how to help.
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A real estate investment firm filed 26 eviction lawsuits in just one month against tenants in a single low-income Quinnipiac Meadows apartment complex — cementing that landlord’s status as one of the most aggressive evictors in the city.
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| Feb 3, 2023 2:38 pm |Across a post-apocalyptic landscape on the outskirts of town, in a dark room on the second floor of an abandoned movie theater, footsteps echoed.
Had the zombies finally arrived for one last cinematic encounter?
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| Nov 14, 2022 11:46 am |Bishop Woods second grader Maite paused and took a deep breath as she looked at the word: “Dent.”
She knew what it meant. The spelling was the hard part. So she decided to sound it out — at the suggestion of a tutor from a successful New Haven nonprofit that has been called in to help the city’s public schools up their reading game.
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| Aug 23, 2022 9:44 am |Tamia Massey usually spends more than $200 getting her two daughters’ hair braided at the start of every back-to-school season.
This year was different — thanks to one of a host of community-led events focused on helping families cut costs as students prepare to return to the classroom.
The lights are off and the popcorn’s all gone from a decades-old independent movie theater on Middletown Avenue — which new nonprofit owners aim to convert to a bustling campus for affordable early childhood education.
(Updated) The mayor and top City Hall housing officials traveled to an apartment complex on the east side of town to promote a newly proposed law empowering tenant unions — and to encourage renters to band together to advocate for fair rent and safe living conditions.