"Children's Zone" Sought | New Haven Independent
Some 5 to 8 percent of Whalley Avenue merchants can’t read. Kids no longer can sound out words because no one teaches phonics. And the only caregiver one neighbor could afford, her aunt, had her charge watching too much TV, so the child may not have been ready for kindergarten.
How to fix those problems and countless others was the subject of a brainstorming session held at the Union Temple Church on Platt Street Tuesday night. The aim was to give birth to a transformative new vision for a New Haven neighborhood: Dwight’s version of the vaunted Harlem Children’s Zone in New York City.
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