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A studio visit with Westvillian and ACES ECA alum, Molly Gambardella.

AvaRose and Alexis, along with 13 other students on the trip, were the latest beneficiaries of a 2017 collaboration between New Haven’s ACES Educational Center for the Arts, where the two study music, and the Chinese Ministry of Education.

ACES gives a heartfelt goodbye to Vanessa Taragowski, retiring Director of ACES Pupil Services and Collaborative Programs.

Representatives of local businesses and area colleges were guests at Meriden’s ACES Thomas Edison Middle School Wednesday for the school’s first ever “STEM-tastic Day.”

With negotiations over its future stuck and starting over, an unconventional K-8 school continues to evolve — and its Hamden and New Haven families hope it can stay put.

Beginning in January, Young students with emotional disabilities at Mead Elementary School will no longer have to take a 17-mile bus to North Haven to receive special education services.

Regional School District 13’s English language learners population increased by 83 percent in the last year, causing administrators to look more closely at the programs they offer. 

Actress Lauren Ambrose, center, prepares to hold a workshop at ACES Educational Center for the Arts’ Little Theatre in New Haven Wednesday.

HAMDEN — Parents and community members from the Wintergreen Interdistrict Magnet School lobbied the Board of Education Tuesday not to force students and the Area Cooperative Educational Services program out of the building, as would occur under recent redistricting proposals.

HAMDEN, Conn. (WTNH) -- - It was standing room only at Tuesday night's Board of Education meeting in Hamden.  Parents, students and teachers from Wintergreen interdistrict magnet school showed up by the dozen, fighting to keep their school in its building.