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| Mar 18, 2024 1:58 pm |What do New Haven Public School students want? Clean and functional school bathrooms. When do they want it? According to a vote by the citywide student council: NOW.
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| Mar 18, 2024 1:58 pm |What do New Haven Public School students want? Clean and functional school bathrooms. When do they want it? According to a vote by the citywide student council: NOW.
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| Mar 15, 2024 3:36 pm |Wearing a unicorn-decorated shirt bearing the message “Kindness Is Pure Magic,” 3‑year-old Chloe danced through the ribbon-cutting for a reopened toddler classroom on Olive Street — as a leading childcare provider recovered from a pandemic-imposed setback.
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| Mar 15, 2024 3:33 pm |The following speech was given by U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the ranking Democratic member on the House Appropriations Committee and a longtime advocate for an expanded federal child tax credit and increased government investments in childcare, at a press conference Friday celebrating the reopening of the eighth and final classroom at the Hope Child Development Center on Olive Street.
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| Mar 15, 2024 2:03 pm |An all-boys charter school is gearing up to open this fall in a stately Dixwell Avenue building that neighbors stopped from becoming a methadone clinic two years ago.
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| Mar 15, 2024 11:25 am |A year after picking a new K‑5 reading curriculum, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) is seeing steady growth in K‑12 math and literacy assessment scores. The district is still keeping its foot on the gas to catch up students who are more than three grade levels behind.
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| Mar 14, 2024 1:06 pm |Worthington Hooker School parents are pleading for a school nurse at the school’s K‑2 campus on Canner Street — a concern they initially raised to the Board of Education back in December.
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| Mar 12, 2024 2:42 pm |New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has again tapped First Student as its transportation contractor for the next four years, after searching in vain for two months for a competing bid.
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| Mar 12, 2024 12:54 pm |When students make mistakes at Metropolitan Business Academy, student leaders step in to help their peers take accountability, repair the harm caused, and accept supports to keep it from happening again.
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School board officials plan to plead for $12 million more from the city than what the mayor has put in his proposed new city budget — money they say would still cover only the bare bones.
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| Mar 8, 2024 9:32 am |Fifth-grader Aly Gaye knew where to start when New Haven’s poet laureate asked him to write verses about himself: My power lies in my brain, in my smarts.
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| Mar 7, 2024 1:01 pm |“Quiet on the set, please,” said high school junior Isaiah Correia to six of his classmates. “And … action.”
The scene was the cafeteria at Engineering and Science University Magnet School. The six students, seated on talk-show couches, were about to launch another episode of “Young Minds,” a podcast focused on social issues that impact high school students. The topic of the day: bullying.
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| Mar 6, 2024 4:25 pm |Some students remained after school at Metro Business Academy Tuesday to start getting a sense of what it might be like one day to come back — as teachers.
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| Mar 5, 2024 3:17 pm |More members of Generation Alpha may be able to afford an Albertus Magnus college degree — thanks to $3.7 million in new donations going towards student scholarships.
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| Mar 5, 2024 9:45 am |When asked “does art matter?” second graders Mercedes, Mason, and Elia agreed “yes.” Then they showed some of the reasons: Mason drew a sign reading “art = peace.” Elia drew a self-portrait. And Mercedes drew a rainbow, reading “I love art.”
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| Mar 4, 2024 2:18 pm |In a second-grade classroom at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School students danced along to Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” after learning about the “Queen of Soul.”
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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 28, 2024 9:30 am |Elijah Johnson walked into King/Robinson School classroom in his United Airlines pilot uniform — on a mission to inspire some of the students one day to take flight.
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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 26, 2024 11:46 am |Long polka dot skirts from the ’50s, black leather jackets from the ’60s, and bell bottoms from the ’70s all made a return to Hill Regional Career High School as it celebrated Black fashion throughout the years.
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| Feb 23, 2024 9:27 am |Third and fourth-grade scholars at the Barack H. Obama Magnet University School sat in an audience looking at their future selves through the lens of a business owner, health professional, schools superintendent, state senator, and a motivational speaker/author.
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| Feb 22, 2024 2:15 pm |The following was submitted by Hamden Hall Country Day School.
After losing their 14-year-old son in a tragic bicycle accident in May 2022, the family of Zayne Ali Thomas of New Haven has established a scholarship fund at Hamden Hall Country Day School where he had been a student.
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A private school has placed an employee on administrative leave after his wife and a neighbor got in an argument over the war in Gaza.
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| Feb 19, 2024 9:00 am |Cameron Davis-Taylor is ready to reenter the workforce. This time around, she plans on being a chef.
She had no professional culinary experience until she joined the ConnCAT Culinary Arts Academy half a year ago. Now she knows she is ready to start a business and begin working.
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Forty-five native Spanish speakers have immigrated here and entered seventh and eighth grade at John C. Daniels School just over the past four months — and are getting up to speed fast thanks to a schoolwide effort to focus on language skills as well as family needs.
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| Feb 14, 2024 1:03 pm |After a season of growth, resilience, and bonding the Lady Governors said goodbye not just to the basketball season but to three of their beloved Class of 2024 seniors.
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