HPS Students Win Popular Hartford Decide$ Votes for City Improvement Projects
Return-to-School Update
Dear HPS Students and Families, This evening, Governor Lamont and Education Commissioner Cardona announced that they are recommending that schools will reopen full time in the Fall. Their decision was based on the current outlook of COVID-19 in the state of Connecticut. However, safely reopening schools will require significant health and safety measures to be […]
Extended Deadline for Early Start Summer School
The Early Start Program is a K-3 summer program offered to students demonstrating difficulty in the acquisition of basic early literacy skills as measured by the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS.) This year’s Early Start Program will be held virtually, July 6 – July 31, 2020. The program will offer learning opportunities […]
Summer Enrichment (NEW DEADLINE!) & the Superintendent’s Reading Challenge
PreK-12 Students: Take the Superintendent’s Summer Reading Challenge!
Who: PreK-12 students What: Superintendent’s Reading Challenge: read 20 minutes 5 times a week Why: Celebrate and have fun growing your reading skills over the summer! PreK-12 students are encouraged to share the books they are reading and submit their minutes to Hartford Public Schools to be recognized for all their accomplishments. When: Challenge runs from July 6th-August 14th […]
Children’s Emotional Well-Being Amid Anti-Black Racism, Racial Violence & Trauma
Most Black children in the United States encounter racism in their daily lives. Ongoing individual and collective psychological or physical injuries due to exposure and re-exposure to race-based adversity, discrimination, and stress, referred to as racial trauma, is harmful to children’s development and well-being. Events that may cause racial trauma include threats of harm and injury, […]
Watch our 2020 Virtual Graduation Ceremonies
With the arrival of COVID-19, the spring semester of 2020 was different and difficult. Our resilient and powerful students, families, teachers, school staffs, and district leadership pivoted accordingly, guiding our seniors safely through the culmination of their high school careers via distance learning, and then putting together unique, engaging virtual graduation ceremonies. Watch them here. […]
ICYMI: Watch our Virtual Town Hall about End-of-Year, Summer Learning and Fall 2020
In case you missed it, watch Superintendent Dr. Leslie Torres-Rodriguez present a Virtual Town Hall about the end of the 2019-2020 school year, Summer Learning, and Return-to-Learn: Planning for Fall 2020. The event live-streamed on Wednesday, June 10 in Spanish from 5:30 PM to 6:00 PM and in English from 6:15 PM to 6:45 PM. Miss the […]
