For Consideration: College Culture at Metropolitan

Peer leaders at Metropolitan Business Academy showed off their college culture credibility Thursday for visitors to a College Summit open house. Zaneta Langley, a senior at Metro, said going to College Summit peer leadership training at Yale University last year changed her life. The class meets every B day last period looking for ways to help students with the college application process. Zaneta Langley, a senior at Metro, said going to College Summit peer leadership training at Yale University last year changed her life.“It showed me no matter what challenges I face, I shouldn’t give up,” she said.Luis Blanco, another Metro senior, said he learned a lot about writing his college application essay, information he passed on to fellow students at Metro. He told them to “dig deep.”“I told them to take what they are feeling inside and put it on paper,” he said. There are five subject areas: academic excellence, self-advocacy, career-to-college connection, College 101 and financial awareness.

Source: Metropolitan Business Academy students display college culture at open house in New Haven

Will Parents Come?

Superintendent Reggie Mayo said a strong foundation in reading is key to the goals of the school reform drive to close the achievement gap between city kids and their statewide peers, cut the high school dropout rate in half, and ensure students have the resources and preparation to succeed in college. Mayor John DeStefano credited Brennan/Rogers for progress on another piece that’s central to reform getting parents involved.Brennan/Rogers showed the highest parent participation in the district on school surveys last year, with 81 percent of parents offering feedback. Lott has a new plan this year to get parents in the door: As part of the Heart of America donation, the school will be getting large shipments of food from the Connecticut Food Bank each month. The school plans to coordinate the food distribution to parents with academic-themed events, such as teaching parents how to help their kids read more fluently. With more parents coming more regularly to the school, Lott said, she hopes to revive the PTO and the School Governance Council. “This is the beginning” of a new chapter of literacy at the school she said of the libraries.

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Zannelli and Ali meet once again:

The team headed to Division Street in Newhallville, and found the Maxima parked on the street. Cops entered an apartment across the street belonging to Ali’s girlfriend’s aunt. That’s where they found their man, asleep in bed with his girlfriend, with his baby daughter nearby. Office David Zannelli stepped into a bedroom on Division Street and found the alleged gun dealer he was looking for still in bed. “You remember me?” he asked. The 23-year-old suspect, known as “Ali,” did remember him. He’d had a run-in with Zannelli in 2009, when the officer arrested him on a narcotics charge in the Dwight/Kensington neighborhood, the district where Zannelli was assigned to at the time. 6 months of labor came to fruition Wednesday morning with Ali’s arrest. He was one of 11 suspects rounded up by police in the first 5 hours of a day-long operation Wednesday. Some three dozen cops, ATF agents and U.S. marshals fanned out across the city to execute warrants on 24 suspects. The police action targeted gun offenders in order to reduce violence in the city, said Lt. Jeff Hoffman, head of the Tactical Narcotics Unit. Moments later, a cop who was masked to protect his identity emerged from the apartment. He summoned a prisoner conveyance van by radio. “We need a 29 at 215 Division.” Zannelli came out a few minutes later. “He’s saying goodbye to his daughter,” he said of Ali. He said the suspect was cooperative. Ali was arrested on two warrants for a variety of charges, including possession of a sawed-off shotgun, weapon in a motor vehicle, violation of a protective order, and illegal sale of a gun.Ali has previous arrests dating back to 2007 on charges including larceny, trespassing, interfering, breach of peace, and possession of marijuana. 

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For Consideration: City wins $390K

The city of New Haven, has won $390k. To help transform Union Station, into New Haven’s Grand Central Station. Governor Dannel Malloy announced the awarding of $5 million to “transit-oriented development” projects in the state, including $390,000 for New Haven. New Haven’s plans, which have been in the works for several years, include a proposal for a new parking garage along with new stores, offices, and restaurants. Transit-oriented development funding is intended to improve public transportation infrastructure statewide including rail and bus service to link communities to each other and people to jobs and housing. The money will be split between 11 towns, with the cities of Meriden, Hartford, and New Britain getting the largest shares. The funding was approved earlier this year by the state Bond Commission. Municipalities were asked to apply for project funding. The state Department of Transportation and Office of Police Management received 23 applications totaling $13.2 million. The 11 winning applications were selected by the two agencies, along with other departments of state government.

Source: City Wins $390K For A "Grand Central Station"

Experiences in Class:

There was some confusion, about the myhighschooolg.org. I have no idea how to log in to the site. I did not; get an email with the information. I did pick one of the posts, I had as a story idea and it was the Tangled Review. I am, now working on the second story idea. It would probably, be another movie review.

Sinking Homes:

Nine months after the state promised a $2 million lifeline for their sinking homes, Bridget Gardner and her neighbors find them deteriorating further, as the money is held up in cross-border talks between New Haven and Woodbridge. Gardner and her neighbors in the Beverly Hills section of upper Westville have been sounding the alarm for years as they watch their homes slowly sink and shift farther. Last year, the state, finally approved the $2 million dollars to help with repairs. They were overjoyed. Part of the issue is a "governance issue between towns, part of it is who in state government can look at this,” said New Haven state Rep. Pat Dillon, who has been the lead advocate for Beverly Hills sinking homeowners. She said she has learned the problems there are much larger than she initially imagined. She said she’s had a number of meetings recently on the matter and is making “a lot of progress.”“The city is working with our legislative delegation and working with the town of Woodbridge to establish legislation for the disbursement of funds,” said city spokesman Adam Joseph. “We’re negotiating right now.”Joseph and Dillon said they couldn’t predict when homeowners might see money to make repairs.

Self Assesment:

My weakness are that I do not, know what a hyperlink is; so I don't know If I have any In my blog. But I have a couple links in my posts. My blog contains an amount of seven blog posts; it's easy to read and is appealing to the reader. I do have a clear statement of purpose in my introduction. However I am not sure if I have a non copy protected photo, I do have three photos though. I have gotten my photos from Google. None off my posts are in the question and answer format. Also all of my post has been spell checked.