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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Six members of the Concord School Board and about 15 members of the public toured the forest that, if all goes to the district’s plan, will one day be city’s new middle school.“So, here, at this intersection, this is right in the middle of where the...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A pair of amendments that will serve as a referendum on the autonomy of the Concord School Board will require a supermajority of 60% to pass, rather than the lower state law threshold of 50%.In interviews, two Concord attorneys dismissed any argument...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

When Michelle Beauregard’s son has no money in his lunch account, he doesn’t eat.The Concord High School junior could, to be clear, purchase the cafeteria’s hot lunch option. But Beauregard’s middle child is a loyal pizza eater, and pizza is an à la...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Concord’s first director of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice transitioned to a new role at the beginning of the year focusing on restorative justice at the middle school.Quinci Worthey, hired as the DEIJ director in 2022, will spend at least...

By LINDA O’ROURKE

Linda O’Rourke lives in Bow. The location of the new Concord middle school has been a hot topic as of late. I have been teaching at Rundlett Middle School for 26 years and am presently a member of the district’s Building Committee. While I can...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

As its president and its longest-serving member, respectively, Pamela Walsh and Barb Higgins are fixtures of the Concord School Board.They’re both being challenged by four candidates who, in some way, are running because of how the board’s decision...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In school elections shaping up to be a referendum on the middle school project, two incumbents and four challengers are vying for three seats on the Concord School Board.With the filing period now closed, the field has come into view. Board President...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

On the rare occasions Rundlett Middle School principal Jay Richard takes his phone out during the school day, his students hound him.“Mr. Richard, we’re not supposed to be on phones during school,” they gleefully remind him.But Richard needs no...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Joe Scroggins is one of more than 1,500 people who signed petitions to reduce the power of the Concord School Board and to rebuild the middle school in the South End where he lives with his family.After months of conversations with neighbors who were...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the Concord School Board’s position that the charter amendments need a three-fifths vote to pass.Nicole Fox, the mother of three children in the Concord School District, believes the Concord School...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Andrew Winters knows that if he won a seat on the Concord School Board, he couldn’t single-handedly overturn its decision to move the middle school to the East Side of the city. But he wants to try.Like many fellow residents, he can’t see why the...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Concord School Board will hold a public hearing on two proposed amendments to the district charter Monday night that, if passed, could strip the board of some of its autonomy.The pair of proposed changes, brought on by a citizens’ petition that...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Ally Snell, the mother of a third grader at the Abbot-Downing School, had never attended a Concord School Board meeting until Thursday night.But, a day after the board’s clerk certified a citizens’ petition that could re-open deliberations on the...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The filing period for three at-large seats on the Concord School Board opens in less than two weeks.Pamela Walsh, the current school board president, Barbara Higgins and Bob Cotton currently hold the seats — they haven’t said whether they’ll run again...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN and SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

If the Concord School District is forced to backtrack on the location of the new middle school, it wouldn’t jeopardize any state building aid for the project.That information — confirmed by a state education official Monday — is in direct contrast to...

By PAMELA WALSH

Pamela Walsh is President / Member-At-Large, Concord School Board. I didn’t run for school board because I wanted to build a new middle school. Then and now, I wanted to focus on helping students recover from COVID, improving academics, and carefully...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Jeff Wells stood outside school district offices Monday with a thick stack of petitions in hand, each sheet’s corners lightly rumpled from being passed back and forth across tables, between hands and in and out of bags and folders.“We’re asking for a...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

City Councilor Michele Horne doesn’t live near either the current or proposed middle schools, or even in the Concord School District, and she’s never had to make a vote on the middle school project. Nevertheless, it’s the one thing her constituents...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Jim Foley knows the inside of Rundlett Middle School well — he taught in Concord schools for almost 40 years. The district now plans to put a new middle school at the end of his street, and he said it’s the wrong move. “I don’t feel the school board...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

You might’ve seen them outside your favorite grocery store or in front of the state house; posting on your social media pages or knocking on your door.A group of residents wants to put Concord voters in charge of where the district puts its schools....

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Dan Williams posed a big question to the Concord City Council at its meeting Monday.“What is your position on the school board’s middle school project?”Councilors left it dangling.The council is only required to answer questions about matters on the...