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Meriden BOEÂ considers temporary attendance waiver for high school students
Meriden BOEÂ considers temporary attendance waiver for high school students
Students head to their next class at Platt High School in Meriden on Thursday. Photos by Dave Zajac, Record-Journal Advertisement
Platt High School in Meriden.
Principal Daniel Corsetti talks about attendance at Platt High School in Meriden. Photos by Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
May 02, 2021 11:23AM By Michael Gagne , Record-Journal staff
MERIDEN â The Board of Education is considering a proposal to temporarily allow an automatic attendance waiver for high school students who have missed no more than a quarter of their required class time for one or more courses this school year, and are maintaining passing grades.
Mass vaccination clinic planned for school staff in MeridenÂ
Mass vaccination clinic planned for school staff in MeridenÂ
The Toyota Oakdale Theatre, 95 S. Turnpike Rd., Wallingford, Thurs., Feb. 25, 2021. The Oakdale is one of Hartford HealthCare s mass vaccination centers. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
March 15, 2021 05:37PM By Mary Ellen Godin, Record-Journal staff
MERIDEN â City public school teachers who have not been vaccinated will receive their shots at a mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Maloney High School on Friday.Â
On March 1, Gov. Ned Lamont included teachers and child care workers in the over age 55 cohort, and asked that all teachers be vaccinated this month.
For Cardona, âItâs just a natural progression,â says former Meriden superintendent
For Cardona, âItâs just a natural progression,â says former Meriden superintendent
Miguel Cardona, then a first-time teacher, is seen in his classroom at Israel Putnam in 1998. File photo, Record-Journal
March 02, 2021 08:29PM By Michael Gagne, Record-Journal staff
MERIDEN â It was nearly 17 years ago when Miguel Cardona, then an assistant principal at Hanover School, assumed the role of principal at the school.Â
That was in the fall of 2003. Cardona had been an assistant principal at Hanover under the schoolâs former principal Mary Noonan Cortright, who at the time had been promoted to superintendent of schools in Meriden.Â
First lady wades into school reopening debate with trip to 2 schools
First lady visits Connecticut school with education secretary
Replay Video UP NEXT First lady Jill Biden began wading into the debate over reopening schools with a visit to two schools Wednesday in Connecticut and Pennsylvania alongside the newly confirmed Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. The trip was meant to give Biden, a community college teacher, and Cardona an opportunity to see how schools nationwide are taking different approaches to reopening, as teachers, parents and school district officials grapple with how to get kids in classrooms safely. At Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in Meriden, Connecticut, Biden stopped in a kindergarten room Wednesday before she and Cardona visited a sensory room without students to learn about the modified approach for special needs students amid COVID-19. Biden and Cardona then met with a second-grade teacher who started the year distance learning and then t