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Elicker Pressed on Columbus

The city should have a community conversation about potentially renaming Christopher Columbus Family Academy on Grand Avenue in Fair Haven. Mayor-Elect Justin Elicker offered that idea Thursday afternoon in response to the first surprise question he fielded since Tuesday’s election by a local reporter — who also happens to be a third-grader at East Rock Community School. Elicker was holding a press conference with reporters from the now-legendary East Rock Record. Reporters from the school now in its sixth year, regularly interview politicians.

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On the Record

Pens and narrow notebooks in hand, the reporters of The East Rock Record march out of their newsroom and fan out on their beats. All of The East Rock Record’s newshounds are elementary and middle school students, most of them at East Rock Community and Cultural Studies Magnet School. But their journalism assignments are much more than a school project. Every semester they produce a full-size print newspaper packed with stories about their school and the city with a circulation of 3,000.

Food, shelter, laptops: The Yale Community Fund for New Haven at work

The East Rock Record Goes Online

After more than six years as a print-only publication, The East Rock Record is publishing its first online issue ever.

East Rock Record Zoom Press Conference with Mayor Elicker

On Thursday, Mayor Justin Elicker’s daily online pandemic press conference came with a twist: all the questions were asked by student reporters. Fourteen up-and-coming youth journalists from New Haven middle and high schools, notably from the East Rock Record, joined the mayor via Zoom to discuss the city’s short and long-term plans to respond to the ongoing pandemic.

Yale Drama Students Bring "New Voices" into Theater

In eight monthly sessions during Yale’s academic year, students from high schools across New Haven learn the art of playwriting from a cast of Yale School of Drama student dramaturgs, directors, writers, actors, and designers. By the end of the program, each student writes a play of their own.