The Board of Education Thursday night received a petition signed by 236 people opposed to a new school bus schedule and want it tossed. The petition was started on change.org late Saturday night by elementary school parent Dyann Vissicchio, who had heard from a number of parents that they were upset about a “two-tiered” bus schedule [...]
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Primary Care To Be Job One For New Medical School
In a year, Quinnipiac University expects to open the third medical school in the state to help ease a dramatic shortage of primary care doctors and to create a new brand of physician — a doctor comfortable in a collaborative team of professionals. To outsiders, Quinnipiac might seem an unlikely place for one of the 18 new [...]
TEAM Work
The School of Education at Quinnipiac University sponsored a three-day training session for area educators who aspire to mentor new teachers in the state’s Teacher Education and Mentoring (TEAM) Program. TEAM is a collaborative endeavor focused on student achievement that brings together beginning teachers and trained mentors. Held June 26-28 in the Curriculum Center on Quinnipiac’s North Haven campus, the [...]
2012 NHSC Scholarship Recipients Announced
Congratulations to Chris Musco and Alex Longobardi, the 2012 NHSC scholarship recipients! The North Haven Soccer Club recently awarded $500 scholarships to two graduating high school seniors who are members of the soccer club. The annual scholarships are awarded to two candidates based on participation and service to the club, their scholastic record and an [...]
North Haven Eliminates Twenty-Six School Jobs
The jobs of 18 part-time school paraprofessionals and eight full-time tutors have been eliminated. Superintendent of Schools Robert D. Cronin said Monday the people were laid off because the federal grant money that paid for their positions ran out. The employees were informed a week ago, and their jobs ended when the school year ended, [...]
Many Students Back North Haven High School In Flap Over Graduation Speech
Collectively, the North Haven High School class of 2012 has little sympathy for its president, Molly Gambardella, in her bid to speak at graduation. When she stopped attending classes in March, class officers say they assumed she’d just stopped going to their meetings. Not so. Gambardella, 18, decided not to attend school for the rest [...]
QU Receives Grant to Provide Scholarships for Underrepresented Nursing Students
Quinnipiac University announced today that it has received a $50,000 grant to be used as scholarship money for students traditionally underrepresented in nursing. The grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) through the RWJF New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program (NCIN) will be awarded to students in the School of [...]
North Haven School Board Revamps Busing Schedule
The Board of Education has adopted a two-tiered transportation system aimed at bringing secondary students to school closer to the schools’ start times. A by-product could be a savings of about $60,000 next year because of a consolidation of vehicles, according to board member Stephen DiCapua. M & J Bus, the Old Saybrook company that [...]
