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Ansonia schools held a district-wide “Financial Literacy Day” Thursday with a variety of lessons teaching students the importance of personal money management.

As part of the program, high school students visited at the city’s other three schools to teach lessons to younger kids.

In Nancy Tingley’s second-grade classroom at Prendergast School, for instance, AHS senior Gianee Benavites read the children’s book “Supermarket” by Kathleen Krull, followed by an activity about shopping and spending led by fellow AHS senior Yarisa Ayala.

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Guest Column: Bring Full Day Kindergarten To Shelton

by Lisa Czaplinski | GUEST COLUMN | Apr 11, 2013 11:49 am | Comments (0)

Full day kindergarten should be implemented for the children of Shelton.

Currently, Connecticut has 103 school districts that offer full day kindergarten including Derby, Seymour, Trumbull, and now Monroe, which will begin a full day kindergarten this coming school year.

Our children are being left behind during this critical time for education. Fifteen minutes a day allotted for reading, math etc. is not adequate to keep our children up to the speed of the surrounding towns.

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Smooth Sailing, So Far, For Derby School Budget

by Fred Musante | Apr 8, 2013 7:31 pm | Comments (0)

So far, so good for the proposed 2013-2014 Derby school budget.

The school board is requesting a 1.9 percent — or $304,719 — increase over the budget now in place. The total proposed school budget is $16.1 million.

The school board is making the funding request to the Derby Board of Apportionment and Taxation, informally called the tax board.

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Read A Book, Win A Hamster

by Leah Salomoni | Apr 7, 2013 10:06 pm | Comments (0)

Here’s one way to get children interested in reading a book — raffle off the main character.

That’s how April 4 became “Humphrey the Hamster Day” in Derby.

Mayor Anthony Staffieri sent Principal Christine DiGrazia a proclamation saying so in honor of Bradley School’s month-long “One School One Read” program, which kicked off Thursday during a special celebration for students, staff, and the guest of honor: Humphrey himself.

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Perry Hill Students Compete For Spelling TItle

by Leah Salomoni | Apr 4, 2013 2:39 am | Comments (0)

The final word in Wednesday night’s first Annual Perry Hill School Spelling Bee, fittingly enough, was “compose.”

Sixth-grader Kamil Alkaul did just that, beating out 24 of his peers to take first place.

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