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Mayo, DeStefano Blast Cartoonist

by Staff | Feb 10, 2012 8:26 am

The Hartford Courant quickly removed a controversial statement from its longtime cartoonist from the web, but not before New Haven’s mayor and schools chief saw it—and pounced back.

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Will New School $$ Match The Rhetoric?

by Melissa Bailey | Feb 8, 2012 4:16 pm

As Gov. Dannel P. Malloy launches the Year of School Reform, he announced he plans to send an extra $3.8 million to New Haven Public Schools—though half of that would go to charter schools. That didn’t make local officials happy.

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Mayor: “State Of The City” Hinges On Schools

by Paul Bass & Melissa Bailey | Feb 6, 2012 8:46 pm | Comments (9)

Another 20 walking cops. A new “one-stop” city-run “jobs pipeline.”

Mayor John DeStefano unveiled those new plans in his annual State of the City address Monday night. But he spent more time reaffirming—and re-selling—an existing top priority: New Haven’s school-reform drive.

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UNH Offers ESUMS Kids A Half-Free Ride

by Caitlin Emma | Feb 6, 2012 1:48 pm | Comments (9)

Students from the Engineering and Science University Magnet School, like ninth-grader Karla Hicks, will be able to attend the University of New Haven for half the cost or even free assuming they keep up their grades—and they want to go.

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Pre-Dawn Coffee? No. Post-Katrina Buzz? Yes

by Staff | Feb 3, 2012 3:33 pm | Comments (18)

Mayor John DeStefano is sending home dispatches from his trip to Seattle to attend a school reform conference sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Following is his third of three dispatches, sent as he headed back to New Haven Friday.

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“Maybe We Need A Marshall Plan For Our Kids”

by John DeStefano | Feb 3, 2012 8:29 am | Comments (13)

Mayor John DeStefano is sending home dispatches from his trip to Seattle to attend a school reform conference sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Following is his second dispatch, sent Thursday:

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Mayor Heads To Seattle

by John DeStefano | Feb 2, 2012 8:04 am | Comments (12)

Mayor John DeStefano is sending home dispatches from his trip to Seattle to attend a school reform conference. Following is his first dispatch, sent Wednesday:

I am off to Seattle at the invitation of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to participate in a convention on mayors in education. Gates is flying about a dozen mayors out to its Seattle headquarters to promote a principal interest of theirs and mine: public school education.

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Will State Copy City’s School Reform?

by Melissa Bailey | Jan 30, 2012 7:46 am | Comments (26)

ConnCAN’s new leader wants the state to replicate New Haven’s way of grading teachers—and take it to the next level.

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A Turnaround Timeout Floated

by Melissa Bailey | Jan 27, 2012 10:09 am | Comments (22)

As the school district released report cards for its 43 schools, the teachers union president called on the superintendent to “take a breath” before restructuring any more low-performing schools.

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Weisselberg Returns As “Wraparound Czar”

by Melissa Bailey | Jan 25, 2012 9:30 am | Comments (28)

She rebuilt the schools. Now she’s returning to New Haven in the hopes of rebuilding kids’ connections to social services.

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