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Middletown teacher named CT PTA’s Outstanding Educational Leader for 2024
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — A fifth-grade teacher at Spencer School in Middletown has been named the Connecticut Parent Teacher Association’s Outstanding Educational Leader for 2024. Jennifer Gudelski is the recipient of the award, as was announced in a release on Friday from Middletown Public Schools. Gudelski was nominated for...
Dozens of layoffs could be coming to New Haven schools if funds cannot be found
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — During a time when students need more help, New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Madeline Negron said the budget is working against that. “This is not good for learning,” Negron said during a Board of Education meeting at Ross Woodward School, 185 Barnes Avenue, on Monday evening. “Not only academically, […]
Lyme-Old Lyme senior has come a long way from war-torn Syria
Editor’s note: The Day publishes an annual series of stories spotlighting outstanding seniors graduating from the region’s 16 public and private high schools. Lyme ― When Mohamad Hamou graduated on a lush, green field at Lyme-Old Lyme High School last week, it was a world away from war-torn Aleppo in Syria.
Yale program teaches women how to run election campaigns
Women continue to win more seats in elected office, but all over the country, they still don’t hold half those seats. Yale University’s Campaign School is looking to change that with a weeklong boot camp for women interesting in running for office. “You will be able to handle,...
Intergenerational Pen Pals meet at Walsh Intermediate School
On June 6, a group of 17 senior citizens who have been corresponding with 17 Walsh Intermediate School (WIS) eighth graders since September met for a year-end, in-person sit down and discussion about their shared year of correspondence. Cherie Strucaly, director of Agency on Aging of South Central Connecticut’s AmeriCorps...
AMAR & LIPKA: Towards a New Yale
George Pierson ’26 GRD ’36 famously termed Yale “at once a tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends.” Today, that society numbers just under 200,000 strong. Nearly 90 percent of those are Yale alumni. Indeed, virtually every student at Yale today — undergraduate, graduate, professional — is or will soon be a Yale alum. Despite this, the pages of the “Yale paper of record,” the Yale Daily News, see little discussion of and virtually no authorship by alumni. We are here to do something about that.
North Haven Athletes Recognized at Collegiate Athletics Recognition Ceremony
On June 5, fourteen North Haven High School senior student-athletes were recognized for committing to continue their athletic careers at the collegiate level at North Haven High School's annual Collegiate Athletics Recognition Ceremony. Guest speaker Bill Mecca, Senior Associate Director of Athletics at Quinnipiac University, shared his words of wisdom to the graduating seniors.Then, several student-athletes received a certificate of achievement from the athletic department.
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