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By JANET WARD

Janet Ward lives in Contoocook. On April 25, the NH Senate Education Committee heard testimony regarding HB 367 and HB 464. Both bills propose the expansion of funding for Education Freedom Accounts, New Hampshire’s school voucher program. This...

By CARISA CORROW

Carisa Corrow of Penacook is co-author of “126 Falsehoods We Believe About Education” and founder of Educating for Good. For many years, science and math teachers have been in short supply, not just in New Hampshire, but nationwide. At the same time,...

By ETHAN DEWITT

A push to increase who is eligible for free and reduced price lunches in schools is facing a setback, after the Senate Education Committee recommended delaying a decision on the bill until next year.House Bill 572 would raise the income threshold for...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Lawmakers are taking up education issues this year that go beyond the big ones, such as adequate funding, school safety, and school vouchers. The instruction of cursive writing and multiplication tables is also dividing the public and...

By JONATHAN VAN FLEET

Inflation was the dirty word of the night in Dunbarton. “This was a difficult year,” Selectmen Chairman Michael Kaminski told the sparse crowd of about 30 residents who drove to Town Meeting despite Tuesday’s storm. “Inflation killed us.”Inflation...

By ETHAN DEWITT

As middle school students returned to the classroom after remote learning during COVID-19, Concord School District officials knew they needed a new learning approach. Kids were disoriented after remote and hybrid learning had disrupted their ability...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Following a community meet and greet event earlier this week, Marcy Kelley was selected as the new superintendent for schools in Bow and Dunbarton. Kelley, who is currently the director of student services for the Bow and Dunbarton school districts,...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Barnstead Elementary School fifth grade teacher Annabelle Boyle waved goodbye to her students as they put on their winter jackets in preparation to leave the classroom and head to their next class.The jackets were necessary because when students exit...

By LISA RATHKE

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Students angry about a plan to switch to an all-digital library at three Vermont state colleges and to restructure athletics took their cause to the Statehouse on Tuesday, hoping lawmakers could help reverse the schools’...

By ETHAN DEWITT

It wasn’t a physical school library book that sent Betsy Harrington into a state of alarm about high school reading material. It was an app.Harrington’s son, a student at Hillsboro-Deering High School, had found a book on Sora, an app that gives...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Over the past year, the Bow Fire Department has experienced a number of personnel issues, and the resignations of call members have made it more challenging to fill shifts.A 4.1% increase to the fire department’s proposed budget would add a part-time...

By DAVID BROOKS

There’s a town meeting truism that the smallest items can generate the most discussion. That proved accurate Tuesday in Henniker, where almost all the debate concerned summer concerts that would cost 1/10th of 1 percent of the operating budget.By the...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

For students at Hollis Primary School, diverting food waste from landfills is no difficult task. As many towns in New Hampshire struggle to get their residents to divert food waste, a program that was started through a grant fund at the school has...

CHICHESTERSchool board proposes 1.95% budget increaseChichester will hold a public hearing on Wednesday night to answer the public’s questions about the school board’s proposed budget for the upcoming year. The proposed operating budget for 2023-2024...

By CATHERINE MCLAUGHLIN

LACONIA — By writing policy, overseeing the superintendent, making plans and implementing goals, school boards shape the vision and current performance of their districts. A state law passed last year now requires New Hampshire school boards to have...

By ETHAN DEWITT

A Democratic bill seeking to limit New Hampshire’s “education freedom accounts” to students who have spent at least one year in public school has reignited debates over who should have access to the program.Sponsored by Rep. Dave Luneau, a Hopkinton...

Tech Ed and Family and Consumer Science have returned to the middle school experience at the Henniker Community School at the hands of one versatile and creative teacher.Henniker teacher Todd Storro teaches Tech Ed and cooking classes to students in...

Plymouth State University will be receiving $2.1 million in federal funding next year to support nursing workforce expansion. New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen visited the school last week to meet with nursing program students and faculty and to tour...

By HOLLY RAMER

Communism and cursive would be part of the mandatory curriculum in New Hampshire schools under a pair of bills harking back to bygone eras of history and handwriting.The House Education Committee held public hearings Wednesday on Republican bills to...

By DAVID BROOKS

Henniker voters will be asked whether to expand the preschool program to pre-pandemic levels in this year’s annual meeting and will face a proposed school budget that would raise the tax rate by about 4%.The preschool expansion is proposed in a...