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Second try: NPS seeks State grant for HVAC work
NPS failed to win funds in the first round of the Lamont Administration’s HVAC Indoor Air Quality Grants Program for Public Schools. City-side Building and Facilities Manager Alan Lo is working with NPS Director of Facilities Bill Hodel to take aim at the second round, Lo said at Wednesday’s Board of Education Facilities Committee meeting.
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School union leaders urge Norwalk BoE to question Estrella’s coming budget cuts
“The district appears to have decided that teachers with less seniority are going to be the ones to be placed on the hitlist no matter what services they are providing to our student population,” said Norwalk High School Principal Lynne Moore, who is also Norwalk Association of School Administrators (NASA) President.
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Norwalk ACTS updates dashboard
“In the past, Norwalk ACTS made specific dashboards for the community and its Initiatives, but it has redesigned these dashboards to include more data in an easy-to-read format that is centralized in one location. Now the dashboard includes five sections: Norwalk Citywide Profile, Norwalk Public Schools District, Norwalk Early Childhood, Norwalk Youth Social Emotional Health, and Norwalk College & Workforce Readiness,” a news release said.
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Norwalk BoE looks to $4.1 million for FY24 budget
NORWALK, Conn. — The Norwalk Board of Education’s budget delta has decreased – about $4.1 million can be directed to the budget, lowering the amount of reductions needed to align with the spending approved by the City, Norwalk Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Lunda Asmani explained recently. Additionally, NPS might receive up to $2.5 million […]
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NPD investigating middle school ‘504’ group, Chief says
NORWALK, Conn. — Norwalk Police have been investigating a “loosely organized group mostly made up of middle school students that identify themselves as ‘504,’” Chief James Walsh said Monday. Incidents of vandalism and “additional events” have occurred in connection to West Rocks Middle School and Nathan Hale Middle School, both on and off school grounds,…
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NAACP leader alleges NPS coverup
After the WRMS student was beaten by 504 Gang members, a video turned up and Reynolds suspended him, denying him due process for an incident that happened outside of school, Penn-Williams said in a statement.
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NHS to present ‘Newsies’
NORWALK, Conn. — The Norwalk High School Drama Department is presenting “Newsies,” a play set in 1899 New York City, with a real-life newsboy strike, replete with a full cast of local students and staff. It’s essentially about the news industry, albeit at the turn of the 19th Century. Co-director Charles McAfee, an NHS drama…
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Naramake kids pedal for smoothies
NORWALK, Conn. — Naramake Elementary School pupils now have the novelty of powering a blender by pedaling a bike, to create a healthy lunch option. Norwalk Public Schools and Chartwells, the district’s food provider, unveiled the Smoothie Blender Bike at a Thursday ceremony. NPS was one of five school districts to win the custom blender…
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Norwalk Charter Revision Commission’s draft coming into focus
NORWALK, Conn. — Norwalk’s Charter Revision Commission is going further than some citizens expected. Though some perceived the Commission would stick with cleaning up the charter and leave more controversial items to a following election, the Commission is drafting a charter revision that would make give the Mayor a four-year term. The detailed revision to…
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Norwalk teachers union president slams NPS leadership, promises to fight for union members’ pocketbooks
NORWALK, Conn. — The plan to switch employees to a different health insurance plan was expected to save Norwalk Public Schools $7 million, Norwalk Federation of Teachers President Mary Yordon said Thursday. “NPS needed careful leadership and timely sensitive actions in order to make this change work, and that was lacking,” she wrote in a…
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NPS forced to stick with higher cost health insurance option for employees
NORWALK, Conn. — Norwalk Public Schools will not be reducing its health insurance costs, as it had hoped. “When the teachers union collectively bargained last year, one of the things that they had in the contract was for the Board of Ed to go out for an RFP to see if there’s something better and…
