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Early Ed Center Rebounds From Pandemic
Chloe (bottom right) with site director Michelle Reyes and teacher Lauren Safady at Friday's classroom reopening. Wearing a unicorn-decorated shirt bearing the message “Kindness Is Pure Magic,”...
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Students Want Clean Bathrooms
Career student Alexa Elias addresses citywide student council meeting. What do New Haven Public School students want? Clean and functional school bathrooms. When do they want it? According to a vote...
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Groundhog Day: Schools Freeze Some Spending To Close Year-End Deficit
Chief Finance Officer Linda Hannans: Belt-tightening time. New Haven Public Schools has placed a halt on most spending requests through the end of the academic year to close a $4 million deficit.
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Action Promised On School Bathrooms
Slides from school officials' presentation. Toilets ripped from the floor. Stalls littered with writing. Destroyed ceiling panels. And human-sized holes in walls … can all be found in New Haven’s...
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Newhallville Presses Zinn On Speed Bumps, School Traffic Safety
Lincoln-Bassett parent Stacy Leslie: school pick-up is hectic. Speed bumps are on the way to Newhallville. What, neighbors asked, about the schools?
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NHA Composters Get To Work Saving Food Scraps — & The Planet
Student composters Akira Torres, Zuhal Jamal, and Juliette Bolanos... ...and their life-saving food scrap stats. 11 New Haven Academy (NHA) students have helped to divert 3,285 pounds of food scraps...
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1 Tree Up, 999 To Go
A red oak... ... and an evergreen partner planted side by side Monday morning. Tree planters trudged through the mud at Kimberly Field to position a red oak in the ground — and pledged to plant 1,000...
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High Schoolers To Middle Schoolers: Get Involved, Be Yourself
Alejandro Zacatelco: "I was really confused and scared." Wilbur Cross junior Alejandro Zacatelco offered advice to 100 middle-schoolers transitioning to high school — advice he never got due to the...
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Kids Ring In iPeabody Era
Derek Silva and company use iPhones to capture Peabody reopening. Joanna Romberg shows the crew a fossilized fish. The reborn Peabody Museum unlocked its doors Tuesday and ushered in a new era of kids...
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Schools Go All In On Competition
Ms. Colon's 2nd grade classroom, which took home the John C. Daniels first place March Madness prize last year. It’s game on for New Haven students: They’re about to embark on citywide...
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5 NHPS Administrators Reappointed
Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment Keisha Redd-Hannans. The Board of Education has approved renewing the contracts of five high-level New Haven Public Schools (NHPS)...
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Refugee Guides Kids To Safe Passage
Feras Kala Khaled on the job on Nash Street. Feras Kara Khaled celebrated his first job in the U.S. Monday morning by walking into traffic — and slowing down cars.
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Cross Students Try Hand As Teachers
Janae Nelson, right, conducting a class at Cross. Instead of English educator Akimi Nelken being at the head of her Wilbur Cross High School classroom, a trio of students took a turn leading the day’s...
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Cross GSA Finds Its Way
Cross GSA: Zulaikha Khan, Alejandro Zacatelco, Levi, Jaime Soares, Gema, and Mikey. Pins made by Cross GSA for teachers to wear and put up in classrooms. More “You Are Safe With Me” pins and “This...
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Climate Change Inspires Fear & Hope & Student Art
Jessica Salerno's student artwork, entitled "Oil Drilling." A student-led tour of Common Ground exhibit. In one half of the poster, a bright blue, clear sky shines down on wildflowers and healthy...
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School Reminder: It's OK To Not Be OK With Gun Violence
Question: "Who's been shot at or knows someone who's been shot at?" When nearly 80 students at Clinton Avenue School were asked who had heard gunshots outside their home before, almost every hand in...
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HBCU Prez Visits Hillhouse — With Acceptances Ready
Livingstone President Anthony J. Davis with Hillhouse senior Chamar Lee. Hillhouse High School senior Chamar Lee came to school never having heard of North Carolina’s Livingstone College — until he...
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475 Rally At “Morning Without Childcare”
Stephanie Bartocetti (center), using her outside voice. It was not the time for inside voices on the Green on Wednesday morning.
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Parents To NHPS: More $ Needed For Schools Upkeep
Jailene Ramos (right) and Supt. Negron at Cross-hosted budget talk. Will next year’s schools budget have enough money set aside to fix bathrooms with no sink handles and school buildings that get too...
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Speech Pathologist Promoted To Special Ed Supervisor
Glynis King-Harrell and Sondi Jackson at Monday's school board meeting. When she was still a student at Southern Connecticut State University, speech-language pathologist Sondi Jackson was mentored by...
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