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Rallies Call For More $ For Schools
School Psychologist Yesenia Garcia calls for smaller class sizes at Monday's rally. Fair Haven School has just one social worker, one psychologist, and one school counselor — to support over 800...
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Brennan-Rogers Teachers: "Show Me The Money!"
Charlene Neal-Palmer: "Brennan-Rogers needs money." Rally outside Brennan-Rogers calls for more state funding for public schools. When Brennan-Rogers sixth-grade teacher Charlene Neal-Palmer graduated...
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Cross Classmates Remember "Evy"
Liliana Jimenez's painted rocks ... ... for close friend Evyana Devine Vidro, at a new memorial at Wilbur Cross. Cherry blossoms and rays of sunshine came to life and mind as Wilbur Cross students...
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$16M Budget Surplus Announced; $8.5M Schools Investment Proposed
Mayor Elicker: The city's "financial situation is on stronger footing than it has been in many, many years." Increased state aid, building permit revenue, and savings due to staff vacancies helped the...
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Stacey Abrams Wows Future Voters
Stacey Abrams (right), and interlocutor Emily Bazelon: "If you’re interested in peoples’ lives being better, that’s politics.” State government is by far the least understood in our system, and in...
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Gates Open To "BioCity"
The inaugural 15-person BioCity cohort, excited to get behind the bench. Fifteen public school students are now able to earn college credits by heading to one of the city’s newest labs — to witness...
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Schools Covid-$ Update: "We Spent It All"
Edgewood Principal Nicholas Perrone, making dream catchers with students as part of the ARPA-funded ECHO program. New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has met its first of two key deadlines for spending,...
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Godslove Multiplies Her Math Skills
Godslove Ampah (right), with math teacher Tonya Howard: "Whenever I look at an equation, I just want to use my brain to figure it out." Time to math! The standard algorithm way, at Troup. Troup...
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Cross Cumbias For Hispanic Heritage Month
Shayel Rodriguez (center) with her parents at Hispanic Heritage Month celebration. On the lookout, at Cross. Wilbur Cross tenth grader Shayel Rodriguez gathered with 12 other student dancers in the...
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NHPS Operations Chief Resigns
Tom Lamb, resigned as of Oct. 3. More than four months after being placed on paid administrative leave with no explanation offered by the district, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) Chief Operating...
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Allegations "Not Substantiated" Against Operations Chief
Supt. Madeline Negrón (right): No comment on investigation, departure of Tom Lamb. A four-month investigation into the school district’s chief of operations found that none of the allegations of...
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Metro Teacher Earns Top State Honor
Students Destiny Lugo and Makayla Kidd with CT Teacher of the Year Julia Miller. “She lets her guard down with us. She’s human with us,” Metropolitan Business Academy Senior Makayla Kidd told a room...
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K-8 School Cellphone Ban To Start In January
Barnard Principal Stephanie Skiba shows off a Yondr pouch, where the cellphone goes. All New Haven public elementary and middle school students will have to stow their phones in magnetically sealed...
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Now Showing: Cinema Becomes Daycare
Ann Moore: Eager to learn sign language alongside the babies in her new classroom. Coming soon to a theater near you is a classroom of babies learning ASL alongside their ABCs.That is, a former...
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District Details Covid-$ Spending
NHPS' total Covid-relief allocations over the past four years. Snapshots of new programming at Edgewood thanks to American Rescue Plan dollars. An outdoor garden and learning space, college courses at...
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Rehab OK'd For Adult Ed's Future Home
188 Bassett, all cleared for Adult Ed renovations. The Elicker administration won a key city approval for the planned relocation of Adult Ed from the Hill to Newhallville, as the City Plan Commission...
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Schools Seek More Security Staff
Supt. Negrón (center): School security down from 100 in 2010, to 56 today. The number of security guards in city public schools is down 44 percent in more than a decade, resulting in a shortage that...
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Schools HQ Sign: Tom Lamb, "Call 911"
Ex-operation chief's name, image, "call 911" warning, as pictured at 54 Meadow on Oct. 9. Earlier this month, a sign posted behind the front desk of the public school district’s central office...
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"Turnaround" Troup Principal Honored At Gala
Principal Foreman: On a mission to "Transform Troup." As more than 90 percent of Troup School’s students have been showing up for classes so far this year, Troup School Principal Eugene Foreman showed...
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Alders Cautiously Advance More School $
Supt. Negrón (right), with schools CFO Hannans: “I don’t see it as a cushion.” Is a $3 million budget-balancing fund for New Haven Public Schools a “cushion” or a “lifeline”?It depends on who’s asked.
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