4+ hour, 57+ min ago  (314+ words) Yale postdocs voted 859 to 31 this week to join the university's graduate student-worker union, UNITE HERE Local 33. UNITE HERE local spokesperson Ian Dunn provided those election results to the Independent on Thursday night after the polls had closed and votes had…...

7+ hour, 20+ min ago  (638+ words) While city government is in the midst of contract negotiations with three municipal unions and is preparing to begin negotiations with another three, the city's Office of Labor Relations is down a senior attorney " and not one application has come…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1564+ words) The Trump administration's sudden funding cuts to groups that support school-based social services in low-income communities has imperiled after-school sports, reading help, and mental health services at two Fair Haven schools. Those wraparound services have been provided by Clifford Beers…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago  (668+ words) Looking ahead to the 2026-27 budget, Supt. Madeline Negr'n has launched the district's first online public input forum " and Bridgeport public school board members are seeking to build stronger ties with New Haven's Board of Education to jointly push for improvements…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (464+ words) More than 50 years later, as educators across the country again debate pay, class size, and the value of public education, veterans of that moment say the lessons of 1975 feel newly urgent. Sapadin, then a young third-grade teacher, said she felt…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (518+ words) Floor hockey is returning to New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) physical education classes thanks to a donation of equipment from brothers Mark and Sal De Cola and friend Jeff Russell. That cost-free expansion of health programming for all K-12 schools was…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago  (392+ words) Evangeline Davila turned her tassel with 32 other eighth graders, in what marked her official graduation from Brennan-Rogers Magnet School on Tuesday morning. The West Rock school's gymnasium was filled with a sea of balloons, decorated caps, and flowers as students…...

10+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1798+ words) Two west-side alders and a state representative stood alongside teachers, parents, and community advocates Wednesday at a press conference calling for New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) to release a line-by-line budget breakdown " and to keep Brennan-Rogers School open. West Rock…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (589+ words) It's official: the New Haven Adult Education Center will continue to rent in the Hill for at least another year and a half, now that the Board of Alders has approved a lease renewal. Alders unanimously approved that renewal at…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (875+ words) King/Robinson seventh grader Dorian scooped a shovel full of dirt into a garden bed newly built by Common Ground high schoolers in his school's courtyard. Soon enough, he celebrated, "the mood will be more beautiful here." That was the…...