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				<title><![CDATA[Bridgeport’s First Elementary Public Charter School to Break Ground on a New Early Learning Center]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Beginnings Family Academy (NBFA), established in Bridgeport, CT as the city’s first elementary public charter school in September 2002, will hold a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the beginning of construction for its new Early Learning Center (ELC).]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:33:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[New Beginnings Family Academy and Fairfield College Preparatory School Kickstart  “Read For Others” Dialogic Buddy Reading Partnership]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Beginnings Family Academy (NBFA) and Fairfield College Preparatory School today launched “Read For Others,” a new partnership pairing high school students with pre-schoolers to engage in a research-based shared reading experience to improve the toddlers' language development.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[New Beginnings Family Academy to host 20th Anniversary Gala]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The fundraising gala, featuring a special performance by Grammy, Emmy, and Tony® Award nominee Vanessa Williams, will benefit the public charter school.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 13:42:32 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[New Beginnings Family Academy Selected as Whole School Partner by The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk.]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The partnership enhances NBFA’s science curriculum through hands-on learning and classroom visits]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:35:12 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[New Beginnings Family Academy’s Teddy Bears Return to Classrooms]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[After a three-year hibernation due to the Covid-19 pandemic, New Beginnings Family Academy’s (NBFA) comfort bears have reemerged.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 10:43:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[New Beginnings Family Academy Welcomes Pamela Dalton as Chief Academic Officer]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEPORT, CT (August 1, 2022) - New Beginning Family Academy (NBFA) is excited to welcome Pamela Dalton as the Chief Academic Officer (CAO) as we begin our 20th academic year.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:35:52 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[NBFA Opens New Kitchen to Prepare Fresh Meals for Students]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEPORT, CT (MARCH 21, 2022) - New Beginnings Family Academy (NBFA) is excited to announce the opening of its newly renovated kitchen, which will allow for fresh and nutritious meals to be made on-site.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2022 13:28:18 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[New Beginnings Family Academy Celebrates SEL Day!]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEPORT, CT (March 11, 2022) - New Beginnings Family Academy (NBFA) today celebrated International Social Emotional Learning (“SEL”) Day with the second annual “One School, One Read, One Quilt!” event, a new tradition after the successful launch last year. At NBFA, which follows a relationship-based model called Emotionally Responsive Practice, students bonded during the read aloud and began a quilt-building project sponsored by the Tauck Family Foundation, a long-time partner of the school.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2022 12:51:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[New Beginnings Family Academy Announces New Early Childhood Center]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEPORT, CT (October 6, 2021) - On Wednesday, October 6, 2021, the State Board of Education approved a request for New Beginnings Family Academy (NBFA) to open its own Early Childhood Center, paving the way for the public charter school district to increase long-term student learning and developmental outcomes by focusing on the formative years.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 13:58:43 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[New Beginnings Family Academy Celebrates National Philanthropy Day!]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEPORT, CT (November 13, 2020) - New Beginnings Family Academy (NBFA) is celebrating National Philanthropy Day by memorializing Gilbert and Dorothy Larson, two special donors who have been an integral part of NBFA for nearly 20 years, and by capturing the philanthropic spirit of the day with its students.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:27:41 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[New Beginnings Family Academy Celebrates SEL Day!]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEPORT, CT (March 26, 2020) – “One School, One Read, One Quilt!” is the theme of New Beginnings Family Academy’s (“NBFA”) celebration of International Social Emotional Learning (“SEL”) Day. International SEL Day recognizes the various strategies and techniques used by educators around the world to teach social-emotional skills and support student well-being in their classrooms, schools, and homes.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 16:55:16 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Bridgeport Rotary donation to NBFA provides for city’s students]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEPORT -- The Bridgeport Rotary Club Foundation recently showed their commitment to “service above self” with the generous donation of $5,000 to New Beginnings Family Academy, a non-profit public charter school in Bridgeport, CT.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:24:48 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[CEP Public Release 2019-2020]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Beginnings Family Academy is participating in a Free Breakfast and Lunch program for the current school year 2019-2020. This alternative is referred to as the Community Eligibility Provision. All students enrolled at the following school(s) may participate in the School Breakfast Program and the National School Lunch Program at no charge. Household applications are not required to receive free meals, but applications may be distributed by the school to collect household income data for other programs that require this information.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:23:51 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[New Beginnings Family Academy Welcomes Back Roree M. Warnke]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEPORT, CT (August 5, 2020) - New Beginnings Family Academy is excited to welcome Roree M. Warnke back as Chief Development and Communications Officer. Warnke brings over 20 years of development experience, most recently with PBS (Vermont). Prior to that she had worked in Connecticut for NBFA and the National Audubon Society. She also brings experience from the Pesticide Action Network (California), The Redress Trust (London), and Amnesty International USA (New York).]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:22:02 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[A Night of Inspiration at New Beginnings Family Academy]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEPORT, JANUARY 7, 2019 -- Toxic stress in a child’s life can affect their biology and eventually lead to adult disorders such as heart disease, cancer, and obesity.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:20:06 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[New Beginnings Family Academy Students Excel in Connecticut History Day Regional Competition and Advance to State Finals]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEPORT, CT (April 18, 2018) - In a first for a Bridgeport public charter school, four middle school students from New Beginnings Family Academy (NBFA) delivered top performances at the Fairfield County Regional Contest for the 2018 Connecticut History Day competition and will advance to the state finals on April 28th. NBFA employs a progressive education model and is the state's only progressive public charter school with emotionally responsive practice. In all, twelve NBFA seventh and eighth graders faced peers from schools across Fairfield County in the Regional Contest, held at Sacred Heart University on March 17th, and presented research projects on the National History Day program theme, “Conflict and Compromise in History.”]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:11:48 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[NBFA Students Open Educational Garden]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEPORT, CT (May 4, 2018) – New Beginnings Family Academy (NBFA) today celebrated the opening of its educational garden. Second graders brought the classroom outside, planting peas, lettuces, carrots, tomatoes, and cucumbers as part of NBFA’s commitment to teaching students the science of healthy living. Students enjoyed the chance to sample some of the foods they are growing, including a seasonal salad to share, thanks to a tasting-table set up by Whole Foods Market® in Fairfield, CT.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 16:47:43 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[New Beginnings Family Academy receives grant from Whole Kids Foundation® for educational garden]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEPORT, CT  (APRIL 6, 2018) – New Beginnings Family Academy (NBFA) has been awarded a first-time grant to develop their educational garden through Whole Kids Foundation’s School Garden Grant Program, which was created in partnership with FoodCorps to help schools grow students’ relationships with food through gardening. The grant to NBFA represents a significant expansion of the Bridgeport charter school’s existing partnership with Whole Foods Market® in Fairfield, CT.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 16:50:42 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[New Beginnings Family Academy Welcomes New Chairman]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEPORT, CT (July 10, 2018) – New Beginnings Family Academy, a public charter school in Bridgeport, CT,  has announced the election of Donald Foley, an accomplished finance executive, as Chairman of its Board of Directors. Foley’s three-year term begins July 1st, 2018.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:08:32 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Enrollment open at New Beginnings Family Academy]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEPORT - New Beginnings Family Academy is accepting enrollment applications for Fall 2019 to fill open pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade seats.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:07:21 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[CEP Letter to Parents]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Parent or Guardian, Great news for you and your children! All students at New Beginnings Family Academy can get a free, healthy breakfast + lunch at school during the school year.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:04:18 -0500</pubDate>
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