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Hartford Public Schools cutting nearly 400 positions amid $77 million deficit
Hartford Public Schools has announced that the district will be cutting nearly 400 positions next school year in the face of a massive budget deficit. The district, which faces a $77 million ...
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Hartford Public Schools commissions $240,000 ad campaign as district loses students, teachers
Hartford Public Schools has entered into a one-year advertising contract as the district continues to bleed students, teachers and dollars. The $240,000, one-year contract commissions CT Public to ...
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Hartford schools superintendent stepping down. But first ‘we have a lot of work to do’
In an interview last year, she said that Hartford Public Schools students experience a “lack of resource equity” perpetuated by the funding demands of Open Choice and other “structural ...
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Hartford Public Schools to eliminate nearly 400 positions
Hartford Public Schools will eliminate almost 400 jobs for the 2024-25 school year. Leaders at the public school district for Connecticut’s capital city announced the changes at a public meeting ...
High schoolers want to stay connected to their community. Here’s how free bus fare would help
A free bus fare program that has allowed high schoolers to commit to more extracurriculars may not be coming back due to a ...
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Some teachers to get job back at Hartford Public Schools
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Some teachers at Hartford Public Schools may no longer lose their jobs after the state agreed to give the district $10.5 million on Thursday. Hartford Public Schools ...
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Hartford teacher suing school district over free speech rights rips CRT, says teaching profession 'dwindling'
A Connecticut teacher who sued the Hartford Public Schools district for allegedly violating his free speech told Fox News Digital that administrators are making teachers' jobs more difficult due ...
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Hartford Public Schools to use $2.1M grant to support full service community school model
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Hartford Public Schools will use part of a federal $2.1 million grant to create a crime and violence prevention program, the district announced on Thursday. The U.S. Dep ...
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This Hartford Public High School grad can’t read. Here’s how it happened.
When 19-year-old Aleysha Ortiz told Hartford City Council members in May that the public school system stole her education, she had to memorize her speech. Ortiz, who was a senior at Hartford ...
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PODCAST: CT teen says Hartford denied her an education. Teachers say she’s not alone
a 19-year-old high school senior in Hartford who told the Hartford City Council in May that she was never taught to read or write despite spending all her time in Hartford Public Schools since she ...
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Hartford Public Schools announce Teacher of the Year
HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - There are more than 16,000 students in 39 schools across Hartford Public Schools, but only one Teacher of the Year! Melanie Zamorski is Hartford Public Schools’ new ...