Around Elm City - Plan B
“These are going to be difficult years,” Mayor John DeStefano Jr. told New Haven on October 22. As the New Haven economy suffers with the rest of the country, city administrators have moved quickly to cut costs. Few of them, however, have navigated the crisis as nimbly as those overseeing the education of New Haven’s children. This difficult year has forced the city to close two schools, Vincent E. Mauro Magnet School and Dwight elementary school, but the closings have been part of a larger, surprisingly successful plan.
Dwight closed this fall, and its students now study at the...
