It was Tuesday evening at the Celentano Museum Academy on Canner Street, and all was chaos and noise. Loud music and screams sounded from the gym, kids raced the hallways and the school’s roaming security guard did not seem to care. School, of course, had ended.
When Superintendent of Schools Reginald Mayo spoke at the ribbon-cutting of the newly-renovated Augusta Lewis Troup School in September, he was brimming with enthusiasm for the city’s innovative school reconstruction efforts.
The New Haven Board of Education will head food services without the help of Aramark — or any independent food services contractor for that matter.
Echoing the concerns and priorities he has laid out in previous public forums this year, DeStefano highlighted the need to focus on crime reduction, schools and securing state funding at his fourth and final community budget meeting Thursday evening at Nathan Hale School.
John C. Daniels is just one of over 20 local schools reaping the benefits of the Class of ’57 Music Education Project, officially launched last fall through a $5 million donation from the class of 1957 and the School of Music.
Two Yale Law School students will advocate for more than 600,000 Connecticut schoolchildren before the state Supreme Court in Hartford today.
The steps of City Hall were hidden by a mass of green union T-shirts yesterday afternoon as New Haven Public Schools management, custodial and food-service workers held a rally to urge city leaders not to renew Aramark’s contract as the school system’s food-service provider.
After last week’s emotionally charged public hearing before the Board of Aldermen — which was attended by over 200 public-school cooks, custodians, teachers, parents and students — Aramark may soon be leaving town. But the company isn’t going without a fight.
Tensions between City Hall and Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now escalated last week as two independent companies released contradictory reports on the quality of New Haven’s education system.
About 300 people gathered at the First & Summerfield United Methodist Church on Friday afternoon to protest what they called the food-service-management company’s poor food quality, poor treatment of workers and poor financial returns. But an Aramark spokeswoman maintains that the company has good relationships with unions, which she said are “misinforming” the workers.
New Haven public high schools may be forced to reform their curricula and increase their graduation requirements if a proposal from the Connecticut Department of Education is passed by the legislature. The department has proposed increasing graduation requirements from 21 to 24 credits and requiring a core curriculum that would include more extensive math, science and...
For Deborah Frankel ’06, picking Teach For America over a job on Wall Street — and choosing to teach in New Haven over New York City — was a question of social justice. Helping lower-income, minority schoolchildren bridge the achievement gap that separates them from their white, middle-class peers was more important to her than raking in the big bucks at a prestigious...
