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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...

Kelli Purington, who has been a substitute teacher at Center Woods Elementary School for five years, says her favorite part of being a sub is being able to see students every day and watching them progress from kindergarten to third grade. “I get to...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire’s schools are spending more per student than ever before, in part because of an increase of federal COVID-19-related funding.New figures released by the state’s Department of Education Friday show that the schools spent about 5.24...

By SARAH GIBSON

Mackenzie Verdiner goes to one of the most diverse schools in New Hampshire, Manchester’s West High School. Students there speak about 50 different languages.“If I grab a fistful of kids randomly, it would be a different color on each finger — it’s...

By DEVIN McDONALD

Devin McDonald is a junior at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. Founder of The Medusa Project, McDonald has devoted much of her time outside of classes over the last several years to researching the connections between women in antiquity...

Weare Middle School and Center Woods Upper Elementary School will have a new principal next year. SAU 24 Superintendent Jacqueline Coe announced last month that Jon Barry will become the new principal of the school, effective July 1.Barry will be...

By ROBERTA BAKER

Noah Lira took his job as a social studies teacher at Franklin High School to spark enthusiasm for subjects he loves, and to make a difference. Then COVID-19 hijacked the world, taking education with it.After 18 months of remote and hybrid learning,...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Former Concord High School teacher Joshua Harwood will be incarcerated for more than three years for soliciting sexual acts from a former student, a judge decided Tuesday.Harwood, 38, who taught business classes at Concord High School for several...