Magnet Schools

Kishimoto's Plans Didn't Lift All Schools

2013-06-19 15:31:00

A lot of people didn't see this coming. As a key assistant to Hartford school Superintendent Steven Adamowski, Christina M. Kishimoto helped develop the "portfolio schools" plan of themed schools that has dramatically improved test scores and graduation...

Glastonbury School Board Working On Policies Governing Use Of Magnet School Planetarium

2013-06-17 13:23:10

With tickets for summer shows at the Glastonbury East Hartford Magnet School's planetarium selling out in hours, the board of education is working on a policy governing the use of the facility. Superintendent Alan B. Bookman discovered the potential...

READER SUBMITTED: SMSA Senior Awards Banquet: Students Earn $2.6 M In Scholarships

2013-06-17 16:10:04

Senior year is a time of many memories and the Class of 2013 at the Sport and Medical Sciences Academy will be remembered as the first recipients of the SMSA PTO Scholarship Showcase Award. Three graduating seniors each received $2,000 for their...

Troubled New Britain Magnet School Gets $10 Million Addition

2013-06-16 11:04:00

Addressing a crowd of children, teachers and city officials in the gleaming new gymnasium, state Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor said the $10 million expansion of the DiLoreto Magnet School doesn't mean that work can stop. "Now we need to make...

Classical Magnet School Graduates 81

2013-06-15 16:36:00

It took a lot more than 15 shaky steps across the Classical Magnet School gym for senior Jacquelyn Santiago to receive her high school diploma. Santiago had been practicing those 15 steps for six months. Born with cerebral palsy, Santiago sat in a...

DiLoreto School Dedication Scheduled For June 13

2013-06-12 07:37:00

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is scheduled to be in the city Thursday morning for the dedication of the $10 million expansion of the DiLoreto Magnet School. The state put up more than $7.9 million of the budget to build to six classrooms, two science labs,...

READER SUBMITTED: Classical Magnet School Names Valedictorian And Salutatorian

2013-06-11 16:10:05

Classical Magnet School Principal, James Motes has announced Lindsay Cadwallader as Valedictorian and Alyssa Serrambana as Salutatorian of the Class of 2013. At Classical, Lindsay has shown a determination to excel in every endeavor. She embodies the...

READER SUBMITTED: Annie Fisher Students Release Trout In The Farmington River

2013-06-07 16:10:03

On Friday, May 31, a busload of fourth grade students from the Annie Fisher STEM Magnet School in Hartford traveled to the banks of the Farmington River in Burlington to observe the release of the trout fingerlings they had raised from the egg stage in...

Vernon Town Council Restores Some Education Spending For Third Budget Referendum

2013-05-28 19:06:00

Following two budget referendum defeats and protests from residents, the town council on approved a revised budget Tuesday night that restores some of the money that had been cut from the school board's proposed spending plan. As council members...

READER SUBMITTED: Meet Mario Marrero, Hartford's 2013 Teacher Of The Year

2013-05-27 16:10:04

It is one thing for a teacher to believe that every child can learn. It is quite another for a teacher to persuade every one of his students that they can learn. Mario Marrero, a fourth-grade teacher at the Betances STEM Magnet School, is precisely that...

Student Winners Named For Hartford Stage's "Write On" Contest

2012-10-25 03:55:00

Abigail Kehoe, Alyssa Slotnick, Christopher Snow, Joe Buchek and Jonas Shivers are the winners of Hartford Stage's "Write On" contest, its annual young playwrights' competition for students in grades nine to 12. The theater sent me information about each...

De Anza Magnet School unites against bullying; students recite pledge

2012-10-09 22:57:00

Dressed in school colors and bright orange T-shirts, the students and teachers at De Anza Magnet School pledged to do their part in the fight against bullying here Tuesday morning. Each classroom created a chain made of paper links, which were connected...

South Bend Tribune/JAMES BROSHER Amanda Maycroft, center, listens as her environmental science students write down observations from a wetlands area near the school on Monday, March 4, 2013, at Krueger Middle School near Michigan City, Ind. Krueger is an environmental science magnet school.

2013-04-05 00:00:00

De Anza Magnet School was decorated out front Tuesday by paper chains that were made by its students, who wrote quotes on them to symbolize their anti-bullying campaign.

2012-10-09 23:11:00

Anti Bulleying Event De Anza Magnet School

2012-10-09 21:13:00