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When Christa McAuliffe boarded the Challenger space shuttle on Jan. 28, 1986, she planned to broadcast two lessons from space into thousands of American classrooms.The first – called "The Ultimate Field Trip" – would have involved a tour of the space...

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A bill that would require educators to answer parents’ questions about their children “completely and honestly” will move forward in the New Hampshire House without a recommendation from its Education Committee.On Tuesday – a day after the committee...

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A week after a federal appeals court ruled a transgender sports ban in West Virginia was discriminatory, more than a dozen transgender girls, parents, educators and advocates in New Hampshire argued that a similar ban under consideration in New...

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Assistant principals don’t typically serve students food, but at Bow High School, lunch duty is a daily responsibility for Matt Fisk.Last Wednesday, Fisk dished out Big Mac subs and cheese nachos and checked in with students as they passed through the...

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At a parent-teacher conference a decade ago, Tina Kim Philibotte learned her child was gay.The disclosure took Philibotte – a self-described progressive and now one of four public school diversity, equity, inclusion and justice administrators in New...

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In January, Merrimack Valley High School senior Lena Pelleteri’s mother passed away following a multi-year battle with cancer.For her senior project, Pelleteri put her “pain on paper”, as she put it, writing a 40-page book that delved into her...

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Horseback riding, Greek mythology, the soccer field, a New Hampshire-inspired repressive society.For 31 Bow Memorial School students who participated in a writing workshop led by legendary young adult author Gordon Korman, wherever things could go...

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Jaws dropped and cheers erupted as Allenstown students entered their new school building for the first time Thursday morning.“Yo, this looks like a mall,” said an eighth grade boy in a Bruins shirt. “Smell that new school smell,” observed another.“We...

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It will take Brian Nolen and his 10-year-old springer spaniel, Annie, at least four days to travel from their home in Bedford, New Hampshire to Kharkiv, Ukraine.The five-leg trip – Nolen’s sixth to the country since the war broke out in February 2022...

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As early as last October, the Czarkowski family saw signs they were entering a college application season unlike any other.During the first college workshop Adam Czarkowski and his son, Tyler, attended, they learned the government was rolling out a...

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A Republican-backed bill that would require local boards to lay out procedures for challenging books used in school classrooms and libraries passed New Hampshire’s Senate on a 14-10 party-line vote.Debate over the bill, SB 523, pitted Republicans, who...

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Concord resident Elizabeth Corell credits the special education services provided through the state’s public education system with shepherding her son through high school and launching him toward college and ultimately a job at Southern New Hampshire...

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In the latest victory for Republicans on transgender issues this legislative session, New Hampshire’s state Senate passed a bill on Friday that would ban trans girls and women from playing on school- or state-sanctioned female sports teams.Senate Bill...

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Pembroke plans to eliminate 27 positions from its schools next year in response to a voter mandate to eliminate $3 million, or 10% of the budget, in the face of spiking taxes.“It’s pretty grim, in my opinion, when you see the number of positions laid...

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Concord joined a growing number of school districts across the state Monday calling on lawmakers to increase state funding for education.The school board’s resolution, which passed unanimously, asks legislators to support a school funding system in...

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In Kadyn Dean’s favorite class at the Pembroke Hill School, she works with robots, builds cardboard houses, and helps maintain a local hiking trail. In the past week, the third grader learned the class – called ILAB – is not expected to continue next...

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Power was expected to be restored by Tuesday evening to the remaining customers in the Concord area who had remained in the dark for nearly three days following a Saturday snow and ice storm.Dozens of broken utility poles led to delays in restoring...

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Hopkinton High School junior Matthew Grillo spent his day off from classes ringing up a steady stream of customers at Colonial Village Supermarket.The independent grocery store in Contoocook reopened Monday following a 24-hour power outage that left...