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Bow schools cite ‘hostile’ environment, outside activists in continued opposition to sports protests
01-02-2025 2:43 PM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Protests from outsiders and potential harm to students are driving the Bow School District’s continuing efforts to prevent parents from resuming pink armband demonstrations against transgender athletes, according to documents filed in a federal court...


School bus company employee claims she was fired for reporting safety issues on Manchester, Kearsarge buses
01-02-2025 1:06 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A school bus company employee says she was fired for speaking up about safety issues on Kearsarge Regional and Manchester School District buses, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court last month.Alison Jones, a corporate employee at the bus...


Opinion: A New Year’s resolution for Concord and UNH
12-31-2024 6:00 AM

By SETH C. ORANBURG

Seth Oranburg, a law professor at UNH in Concord, advocates for stronger ties between New Hampshire and its institutions. As 2024 ends, many of us are resolving to strengthen our personal relationships in the New Year: Hey Siri, remind me to put my...


Opinion: Kearsarge Regional School District: Right issue, wrong target
12-27-2024 4:00 PM

By SUE MCKEVITT

Sue McKevitt lives in Bradford. On Jan. 4, the Kearsarge Regional School Board will hold a deliberative session, voters only chance for input, to discuss the proposed upcoming year’s school budget. Included is Article #5, crafted by petition, to put...


A look ahead to 2025: How will school funding issues play out in the new year?
12-26-2024 4:31 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The first major school funding battle of 2025 will come just four days into the new year when residents of the Kearsarge Regional School District gather at their high school to vote on a proposed school budget cap.The frustration that fomented...


Pembroke voters rejected a $3 million school budget hike last year. What has that meant for students and teachers this year?
12-25-2024 3:30 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Pembroke Academy Spanish teacher Reilly Paquin’s grade book is filling up fast.Halfway through the school year, the tenth-year teacher has resorted to providing written rather than verbal feedback at least a dozen more times than she ordinarily would...


Amid holiday cheer, Kearsarge residents look toward school budget cap vote with worry
12-24-2024 12:03 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

As Michael Simon departed Cafe One East in downtown Warner on a frigid afternoon before Christmas, he was already looking past the holidays and toward the new year with trepidation.On the first Saturday of January, residents of the Kearsarge Regional...


New documentary focuses on Christa McAuliffe’s life as 40th anniversary of Challenger disaster approaches
12-23-2024 12:08 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

As the Challenger launch date approached in January 1986, sixth-grader Kim Bleier rushed home from the Conant School each afternoon to catch the latest news on television, captivated by a mission that was set to make Concord High School social studies...


‘Completely cataclysmic’: If passed, proposed budget cap in Kearsarge school district could lead to school closures, layoffs
12-22-2024 9:01 AM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

In a move that is becoming more common across the state, a group of residents is vying to slash the Kearsarge Regional School District budget by an amount district leaders contend would force them to lay off scores of educators and close schools.The...


Pembroke and Deerfield superintendent is latest leader to announce her departure from the district
12-19-2024 5:15 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Complicating the road forward for the Pembroke school district is yet another high-profile departure, this time from Superintendent Patty Sherman, who announced that she will retire at the end of the school year.Sherman becomes the latest district...


Pembroke Academy Headmaster to depart, citing budget woes as a factor
12-17-2024 2:49 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Longtime educator Dan Morris will step down as headmaster of Pembroke Academy at the end of this school year, he announced earlier this month.The fallout from voters’ $3 million cut to the proposed school budget contributed to his decision to...


Why do so many students leave New Hampshire to go to college?
12-13-2024 4:49 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Merrimack Valley High School senior Keighen Duppong knows attending the University of New Hampshire would likely cost thousands of dollars less per year than most of the schools on his college list.Duppong, who plans to study applied physics, has sent...


Pembroke school board weighs budget decisions in light of last year’s cuts
12-12-2024 6:17 PM

By RACHEL WACHMAN

The Pembroke School Board has a lot to weigh going into budget season for the next school year.The next proposed budget seeks to add $2 million in spending, bringing the total to $33.3 million.The schools are still feeling the effects of last year’s...


State says heat, transportation, principals not required for ‘adequate’ education
12-10-2024 1:22 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Hiring superintendents, principals and nurses is not necessary to provide the state’s youngest residents with an adequate education, Solicitor General Anthony Galdieri argued at the New Hampshire Supreme Court on Tuesday.Neither is providing heat...


Inside EFAs: A quarter of all Education Freedom Account tuition dollars went to five Christian schools, Monitor analysis finds
12-07-2024 10:20 AM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Editor’s note: Inside EFAs is a new occasional Monitor series that will examine New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program from multiple perspectives over the coming months.The vast majority of money from New Hampshire’s four-year-old school...


Merrimack Valley proposes school meal price hike to offset increasing meal debt
12-03-2024 2:39 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A proposal by district administrators to raise meal prices in Merrimack Valley schools was temporarily tabled by the school board on Monday, with some members expressing concern that any increase could further hamstring families who are struggling to...


Amid confusion on transgender sports law, Kearsarge has yet to face legal challenge
12-03-2024 12:45 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The Kearsarge Regional School District has yet to face any legal consequences for declining to comply with a new state law barring transgender girls from participating on girls’ sports teams, according to Superintendent John Fortney’s response to a...


A Merrimack Valley sixth grade class welcomes a cow to school
12-02-2024 2:51 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Moo-ve over, class fish and hamsters. Merrimack Valley Middle School math teacher Becky King has adopted a cow.Bonnie, a Brown Swiss dairy cow, does not literally live in King’s sixth-grade classroom, but her presence is very much felt. The...


Talented Merrimack Valley High artist Jaeden Taylor brings distinctive multi-dimensional approach to her work
11-28-2024 2:00 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Most visual artists stick to a primary surface. Jaeden Taylor is not like most artists.The Merrimack Valley High School junior has designed gnomes adorned with three-dimensional beards and has sold painted rocks that customers use as paperweights.Even...


Opinion: Divest from tests, invest instead
11-27-2024 6:00 AM

By CARISA CORROW

Carisa Corrow of Penacook is co-author of “126 Falsehoods We Believe About Education” and founder of Educating for Good. In Nov. 12th’s Monitor, reporter Jeremy Margolis asserted that “Poorer school districts in Merrimack County [are] lagging on...

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