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 […]
Connecticut’s Program for Free Community College
Connecticut State Community Colleges are offering free college tuition through the PACT grant for the Fall 2020 semester ONLY TO FIRST-TIME, FULL-TIME STUDENTS ENROLLING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE FALL OF 2020. PACT is “last-dollar funding,” meaning it covers the gap between the federal and state grants you receive (Pell and Roberta Willis grants), […]
Read to a Child’s Remote Read-Aloud Program and Interactive Zoom Session
Aerospace Systems Engineer Tracy Drain reads “Hidden Figures” and has lively interaction via Zoom with 4th Grade Class at Esperanza Elementary School in Los Angeles National literacy and mentoring non-profit Read to a Child® announced its Remote Read Aloud Program. As part of the new program, Tracy Drain, a Systems Engineer working at NASA’s Jet […]
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, […]
