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Stamford School Dons Groovy Shirts for Autism

By Anthony Buzzeo  05/13/11

It isn’t the 1970s, but that did'nt stop Roxbury Elementary School students from wearing tie-dye t-shirts on Friday. The students were wearing the funkadelic clothing for Autism Awareness Day and Principal Gloria Manna could not stop smiling walking around her school.

“The typical students have gained a compassion and citizenship about the issue and that is the greatest award,” Mann said, explaining how students with Autism are mainstreamed in certain classes.

School secretary Joyce Pinto sold the Stamford Education 4 Autism tie-dye shirts to students, staff, and even ...

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PTO Mom Aims to Augment Learning

By Felicia Hunter  10/21/10

Like many parents, when Stamford resident Deb Ehret’s first child started school, Ehret began going to school again, too.

“I started volunteering when she was in kindergarten,”  Ehret said about daughter Erika. “I was new. I was trying to get to know people in the school.”

Erika is now a fifth-grader at Roxbury Elementary School, and Ehret’s son, Bennett, is in third grade. Ehret currently serves as co-president of Roxbury’s PTO with Lori Johnston.

“I found out there was a great bunch of parents at Roxbury who were very involved,” said Ehret. “There was a ...

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