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Graduation Season: Sandy Hook 12yrs After a Horrifying Time
It's springtime. For many high school and university students, that can only mean one thing. Graduation. Graduation for many, especially high school students, is the penultimate turning point towards adulthood. But for a small community in Newtown, Connecticut time is somber as they begin to reflect what could have been. 11 and a half years doesn't seem like a long time to many. But for Sandy Hook alumni, faculty, staff, and survivors, it is a time for reflection as they look back at the students, teachers, and classmates who were lost on that tragic December morning in 2012.
Cross Principal Adapts To Overenrolled School
Wilbur Cross Principal Matt Brown has a math problem to solve:. How do you lead a school where the building’s capacity is for 1,300 students, its enrollment tops 1,700, and the number of students who actually show up to class each day is somewhere in between — given the district’s persistent struggles with chronic absenteeism?
Legislators, please don’t weaken CCSU
As a recent graduate of Central Connecticut State University, I can’t help but worry about the cost of public higher education. Is it getting out of reach for students like me? Central is the largest university in the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system (CSCU). The system’s board of regents is trying to close a […]
A CT school district reported ‘irregularities’ with student testing to state. What does that mean?
A Connecticut elementary school principal is on administrative leave after public school officials announced that the district was “made aware of alleged state testing irregularities.” Very little information has been released about the circumstances that led to the temporary removal of Principal Emily Gomes from Ivy Drive School in Bristol and many questions remain. An interim principal was ...
Mead School Celebrates Community and Student Talent at Annual Spring Fling
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Local Students Lead Food Waste Audit at Cons/MHHS Cafeteria
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Pomperaug High School student wins statewide Doodle for Google art contest
SOUTHBURY, Conn. (WTNH) – A Pomperaug High School student’s doodle has been named the statewide winner of the 16th-annual Doodle for Google art contest! Anjuii Case’s artwork- titled “2049: A Prosthetic Vision”- is their answer to Google’s contest prompt, which asked students what their wish is for the next 25 years. In addition to his […]
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