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  • Adamowski, Norwalk BoE, lay out plan for NPS 2017-18

    Adamowski, Norwalk BoE, lay out plan for NPS 2017-18

    NORWALK, Conn. – Marching orders have again been laid out by the Norwalk Board of Education, in hopes of duplicating the success it has declared in its 2016-17 score card. “This is year two of our three-year Strategic Operating Plan,” Board Chairman Mike Lyons said at Tuesday’s BoE meeting. “You start from the 10,000-foot level…

  • Norwalk struggles to split its long term-childcare programs

    NORWALK, Conn. – Norwalk is poised to announce its new provider for the School Readiness program, which has been taken away from the Norwalk Housing Authority, Early Childhood Coordinator Mary Oster said Wednesday. “We worked on that really today, we spent a lot of time on the phone with the mayor and the superintendent, but…

  • Experts say relationships are key to reversing expulsion trends among early education students

    HARTFORD, Conn. – A panel of experts in early childhood education — among them a renowned researcher, a public school administrator, an attorney, and a civil servant — converged Tuesday at the University of Connecticut Law School to shed light on a new state law to make sure the state’s youngest learners all have a…

  • Heavily criticized Norwalk pilot program for parents getting reboot from Adamowski

    Heavily criticized Norwalk pilot program for parents getting reboot from Adamowski

    NORWALK, Conn. — An effort to teach parents how to teach their young children to read will be expanded this year under the direction of Norwalk Superintendent of Schools Steven Adamowski, to the delight of the program’s critics. The Literacy 4 Parents 4 Children program, which was started last year by the late Norwalk Federation…

  • Letter: Providing information to families key to early childhoood program

    To the Editor: Recently a group of concerned citizens including parents, teachers, family outreach workers, and community activists met at the South Norwalk Library as a follow up to the Community Conversation held in November of last year. The Conversation was sponsored by the Norwalk Early Childhood Council (NECC) through funding from the William Caspar…

  • Mosby criticizes lack of diversity in Norwalk Public Schools

    NORWALK, Conn. – Complaints about lack of diversity and needed help for minority and disadvantaged children continue from one of Norwalk’s most vocal citizens. John Mosby’s latest speech to the Board of Education touched on the separation between the city and the board, the lack of black and Hispanic teachers and the recent West Norwalk…