Updated: Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 9:27pm
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. To an audience of cheering Troup children, faculty and parents, Mayo declared: “What other superintendent in the country can boast of a $1.5...
The New Haven Board of Education will head food services without the help of Aramark — or any independent food services contractor for that matter. In Monday’s monthly BOE meeting, the board voted unanimously to bring control of the food services in-house, effectively rejecting the three outside bidders. Chief Operating Officer Clark said Monday that the board is...
For New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr., violence reduction and education continue to be the city’s highest priorities. 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...
It is Tuesday morning at John C. Daniels Magnet School. Class is in session and the building is quiet, save for faint music echoing down the sunshine-flooded halls. Inside the music auditorium, more than a dozen sixth-grade students perch in front of music stands, flutes, clarinets and trumpets in hand. Some play Brahams, others Christmas carols. Music classes like this...
Two Yale Law School students will advocate for more than 600,000 Connecticut schoolchildren before the state Supreme Court in Hartford today. For the two students in Yale’s Education Adequacy Clinic, David Noah LAW ’09 and Neil Weare LAW ’08, more than a year of work will culminate today as they present their oral argument in a case that will decide whether...
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. Speakers and rally organizers encouraged Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and the school board to...
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. As the city prepares to begin interviews with bidders for the New Haven Public Schools food-service...
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. New Haven Board of Education officials said they stand by one study, a quality review report completed by Cambridge Education, a private international education...
Spirited choruses of “Si se puede” — the Spanish translation of Senator Barack Obama’s “Yes we can” campaign slogan — kicked off a union-led protest of Aramark’s presence in New Haven public schools on Friday. But by the end, it was the repetition of “Chicken nuggets, get out” that was drawing the loudest applause. About 300 people gathered at the...
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 plan, which was first presented to the public Nov. 7, is intended to increase the rigor of the curriculum and provide students with the skills necessary to thrive in...
Ten minutes into Tuesday morning, the seventh-graders are almost ready for gym class. Deborah Frankel ’06, an English teacher at Katherine Brennan School in New Haven, stands with a timer in her hand, waiting on one slowpoke. The student, who has a bag strapped across her shoulder despite the “no backpacks in class” rule, is getting ready to talk back to her...
New Haven decorated two of its most promising students in a ceremony at City Hall on Monday. One aspires to be a brain surgeon, just like her award’s namesake. The other aspires to be “brilliant” and “mighty,” just like his dad. The pair, Jacqueline West, 16, and Giovanni Preciado, 11, are the city’s first Carson Scholars. The program, founded by leading...
