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Education in Bridgeport, Connecticut includes Bridgeport Public Schools, private and religious schools, a college, and a university. Bridgeport is home to the University of Bridgeport, Housatonic Community College, St. Vincent's College [1] and the Yeshiva Gedola of Bridgeport. Gutchess College was a business school which went defunct circa 1920.
Wilbur Cross High School and Hillhouse High School are New Haven's two largest public secondary schools and the only non-magnet secondary schools in the district. Almost all of the district's schools have been renovated under a 15-year, $1.375 billion School Construction Program.
Cross died on October 5, 1948, in New Haven at the age of 86. He is interred at Evergreen Cemetery. [8]Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, Wilbur Cross School in Bridgeport, and Connecticut's Wilbur Cross Parkway and Wilbur Cross Highway were named in his honor, as was Yale's Wilbur L. Cross Medal, awarded for outstanding achievement in professional life.
Wilbur Cross High School is a four-year public high school in the East Rock neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut, United States, serving ninth through twelfth grades. The school is named after Connecticut Governor Wilbur Lucius Cross and is the largest school in the New Haven Public Schools in the number of students as well as teachers.
Father Panik Village was the first housing project located in Bridgeport, and the first in Connecticut.Ground was broken in 1939, and it opened as Yellow Mill Village.By 1936, Father Stephen Panik, a Slovakian priest, had enlisted the support of Mayor Jasper McLevy and Gov. Wilbur L. Cross to assist with finances through the Federal Housing Authority.
In 1998, Career High School of New Haven joined the conference and was placed in the Housatonic Division. In 2004, the league again expanded when the Board of Governors voted to accept two Milford-based schools, Foran and Jonathan Law.
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