New Haven Citizens Action Network » Youth http://www.nhcan.org Accountability,Transparency & Financial Sustainability In New Haven Government Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:39:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Is the official Drop Out Rate sanitized? http://www.nhcan.org/archives/366 http://www.nhcan.org/archives/366#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:57:21 +0000 jeffrey.kerekes http://www.nhcan.org/?p=366 Support Youth Rights Media’s documentary on the Drop Out Rate in New Haven. New Haven was recently labeled a “drop out factory.”

Youth Rights Media Premiere

Pushed

In this new documentary, youth pose urgent questions about the local impact of the nation’s largely invisible “dropout crisis.” Along the way they ask how many of our city’s students really graduate from high school, and do we really understand why others
fall short of completing? Their search for answers yields inspiring, puzzling, and often troubling results.

Friday, June 19, 2009 at 7pm
Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel St
New Haven, CT

Please RSVP to: lmc@youthrightsmedia.org or 203.776.4034

Directions:
Direct access to the Gallery Auditorium from High Street.
Parking is available on the street or in the lot on York Street
between Chapel and Crown.

]]> http://www.nhcan.org/archives/366/feed 0 City to Name New Asst. Super for Portfolio Schools http://www.nhcan.org/archives/347 http://www.nhcan.org/archives/347#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:45:03 +0000 jeffrey.kerekes http://www.nhcan.org/?p=347 The New Haven Register reports “New York City school reformer Garth Harries [to be appointed] to the new post of Assistant Superintendent for Portfolio and Performance Management”. From the article, it seems like this would be a great addition to the educational reform needed in New Haven. I wish this person success. To complement the City Administration, this new trend of hiring experts to run the city is an encouraging development – especially if we can truly leave behind this “mom and pop”/”friends and family” style politics and cronyism. We can only hope that bringing in this new person from the outside does not meet with the same resistance/interference from politicos in the City Administration (and BOE) that are notorious for needing to control everything. This “business as usual” B.S. has already interfered with at least two outside experts hired by the city – the police chief and Michele Whelley from the new EDC. I hope Mr. Harries brings some antacids with him.

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