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By JEREMY MARGOLIS

One final corny joke stood between the Bow High School seniors and their high school diplomas.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Want to attend a private four-year college for $10,000 a year? If you graduate from any of 13 area high schools, now you can.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The federal government is appealing a New Hampshire judge’s April ruling ordering the Department of Homeland Security to maintain the legal status of an international Ph.D. student at Dartmouth College.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A divided New Hampshire Supreme Court directed the state government on Tuesday to nearly double the base education adequacy payment it expends per student, but the court stopped short of calling for the change to take effect immediately, as a lower court had ordered.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

It was an academic year marked by sweeping victories for advocates of education privatization and parental rights and by numerous defeats for proponents of public education. From Kearsarge to Concord, the battles played out in local annual meetings, at the state capitol, in the state’s federal courthouse, and all the way from Washington.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

When Henrietta Kenney saw the stunning white cupola of her 19th-century Boscawen barn deteriorating, she knew she needed help.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The bell-to-bell ban on cellphones in schools that Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed into law Friday will bring about the biggest educational change in New Hampshire since the pandemic shutdown.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Concord’s school district surpassed $100,000 in unpaid lunch debt for the first time, continuing a trend of growth that began when a pandemic-era freeze on school meal charges ended in 2022.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A group of Bow residents who were barred from protesting the participation of a transgender girl in a high school soccer game last fall have now taken their case to a federal appeals court.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A chaotic week that raised questions about the fate of a widely popular bell-to-bell school phone ban ended with the proposed law added to the latest version of the legislature’s state budget, increasing the likelihood that one of Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s signature policy priorities goes into effect ahead of the upcoming school year.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Two thousand new students applied to New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program during the program’s first week without an income eligibility cap, according to the program’s administrator.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A Department of Corrections officer who helped restrain an uncooperative psychiatric patient said she never saw Matthew Millar place his knee on the man, offering little support for prosecutors’ claim that her fellow officer had caused the man’s death by kneeling on his back.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

When Michael Durgin got the call on Tuesday morning, he thought it was bad news.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The last time a New Hampshire governor nominated a new education commissioner, the pick sparked fierce pushback. Many on the left perceived Frank Edelblut – then-Gov. Chris Sununu’s recent Republican primary rival – as unqualified, too political and a threat to public education.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

When Ngan “Su” Tran arrived in New Hampshire from Vietnam last November, she had nine days before her first choral concert to learn six pieces.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program received an influx of about 500 new applications in the first 24 hours following the removal of an income eligibility cap, according to the administrator of the program.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed into law an expansion to New Hampshire’s school voucher program on Tuesday that removes the income eligibility restrictions that had defined the program during its first four years.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The New Hampshire Supreme Court decided wealthier towns can retain all their statewide education property tax payments instead of redistributing a portion to poorer towns, reversing a lower court’s decision that keeping the unused funds was unconstitutional.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Seventh grader Parker Michaud faced the biggest decision of his young life.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

It was opening weekend for the Concord-to-New York bus route and the group of Granite Staters who had congregated on a Manhattan side street were in high spirits.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The financial repercussions of Merrimack Valley’s $2 million over-expenditure will likely spill into a second school year, according to Superintendent Randy Wormald.