For another school year, Waterbury’s grading scale will only go as low as 50. And with uncertainty due to Covid-19 still here, Waterbury officials say that it.
End arrests of young children in Connecticut
You’re standing in an elementary school hallway. A fourth grader and a fifth grader get into a fight. Nervous to intervene, a school employee calls the police. A cruiser arrives quickly. The children are arrested and led from school in handcuffs.
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Hard to imagine? It’s allowed, and it’s happening in Connecticut schools today.
In fact, Connecticut kids as young as seven are being arrested. And, though a host of organizations advising the legislature requested our state’s age of adjudication be raised to 12 – so that a child would have to be at least a sixth of seventh grader to be pulled into our criminal justice system – a bill that has cleared the State House and is on its way to the Senate would only raise the age to 10.
16 and 17-year-olds can make appointments during the school systems Spring Recess. Author: FOX61 Staff Updated: 9:59 PM EDT April 18, 2021
WATERBURY, Conn. The Waterbury Public School system will be holding vaccine clinics for those 16 and older throughout this coming week.
The clinics are a partnership with the State of Connecticut, the City of Waterbury, Saint Mary s Hospital, Waterbury Hospital and Post University, Waterbury Public Schools say they have reserved several hundred vaccine appointments for students, 16 and older, for the week of April 19, when students will be on Spring Recess.
To schedule an appointment at the following locations, please call 877-918-2224 beginning Monday morning at 8. The vaccine appointment line is open from 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
COVID vaccination efforts ramp up in Waterbury targeting students, vulnerable populations
The City, Saint Mary’s Hospital, Waterbury Hospital, Post University & Waterbury Public Schools have reserved several hundred vaccine appointments for students 16+. Author: Angelo Bavaro (FOX61) Updated: 4:19 PM EDT April 19, 2021
WATERBURY, Conn. Efforts to get students vaccinated against COVID-19 in Waterbury are picking up this week as spring break begins.
In partnership with the State of Connecticut, the City of Waterbury, Saint Mary’s Hospital, Waterbury Hospital, and Post University, Waterbury Public Schools has reserved several hundred vaccine appointments for students 16 and older this week.
The school district also said there will be additional opportunities for receiving the vaccine over the coming weeks in the way of school-based sites and pop-up clinics.