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By JEREMY MARGOLIS andSRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Just hours after a court hearing in Concord, 15-year-old Parker Tirrell, a transgender girl, was on her way to lace up her soccer cleats and join her teammates for girls’ soccer tryouts at Plymouth Regional High School on Monday night.A federal judge...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
When Cali Rollins showed up to her first Merrimack Valley Middle School softball practice in 2023, she had little idea of the legacy that preceded her. But when her mother, Morgan Mahon, emailed her daughter’s new coach that spring, Tom Burke had...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN, JEREMY MARGOLIS and MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
A tentative agreement brokered Friday to allow a transgender Plymouth girl to temporarily practice on the girls’ soccer team has fallen through, according to two people familiar with the situation.Instead, a determination on whether Parker Tirrell – a...
By GEORGE KELLY
George Kelly is a resident of East Concord, and a retired public school educator/ administrator. Methinks the Concord School Board ought to pile into a van, preferably an unmarked one, and take a drive across the river up “Gully Hill,” past the state...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Editor’s note: A tentative agreement brokered Friday to allow a transgender Plymouth girl to temporarily practice on the girls’ soccer team has fallen through, according to two people familiar with the situation. Read an updated story here.Parker...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN and MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Parker Tirrell lives and breathes soccer. Iris Turmelle was looking forward to giving tennis and track a shot.Last week, both teenagers were informed by their schools that a new law passed by the legislature means they wouldn’t be allowed to play on...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
At the age of 16, as the pandemic began, Charity McRae dropped out of Concord High School.“I don’t learn like most traditional kids, so sitting in a classroom with 40 kids wasn’t really the best for me,” McRae said.Over the ensuing four years, she got...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
The summer break has done little to quell the exodus of Pembroke schools employees from the district following last spring’s controversial school budget cut.Five more employees have resigned since the start of the summer, with some citing the...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Iris Turmelle leaned back in the car’s rear seat, letting the warmth of the July sun bathe her face as she headed to a sleepover at her friend’s house. But a text message from her mother, shattered that Friday afternoon, overwhelming her with anger...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
The New Hampshire Board of Education voted Wednesday to approve new minimum educational standards that some believe could reshape K-12 education in the state.Opponents of the revisions to the so-called 306 Rules have argued that they will diminish...
By PAMELA WALSH
Pamela Walsh is President / Member-At-Large, Concord School Board. I didn’t run for school board because I wanted to build a new middle school. Then and now, I wanted to focus on helping students recover from COVID, improving academics, and carefully...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Last fall, high school teacher Penny Culliton received a notice from the New Hampshire Department of Education that appeared to expand the scope of a parental notification law passed in 2017. The department’s initial advisory to schools had said that...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
A University of New Hampshire prosecutor this week dropped criminal charges against seven of the people arrested during a May 1 pro-Palestine protest after they accepted plea agreements.The seven cases were dismissed nearly three months after UNH...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Last month, Kim DeRego, the vice president of enrollment at the University of New Hampshire, received a call from the mother of two UNH students. Her fall tuition bill, the mother told DeRego, was slated to go up $20,000.The staggering jump was due to...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
The New Hampshire Department of Education is appealing a federal court ruling striking down the state’s controversial “divisive concepts” law, reopening a court case about whether the state can regulate how educators discuss race, gender, and other...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Cafeterias in 10 New Hampshire school districts are set to receive an influx of local food in coming years, following the creation earlier this month of a statewide reimbursement program.The program, signed into law by Gov. Chris Sununu, will...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Governor Chris Sununu on Friday banned transgender girls in New Hampshire from competing on school-sponsored girls’ sports teams in the state starting in fifth grade.The law – which makes New Hampshire the 26th state to implement transgender sports...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Tuition at New Hampshire’s seven community colleges will not increase this coming school year, the Community College System of New Hampshire announced Thursday.Since 2018, a full community college course load has cost $6,450 per year or $215 per...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
The ACLU of New Hampshire on Wednesday called on the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth College to drop trespassing and disorderly conduct charges against pro-Palestine protesters arrested on May 1.In a letter to the presidents of the two...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Despite expressing considerable discomfort with the potential price tag, Concord School Board members voted Monday to cap the controversial middle school building project at $152 million, paving the way for it to move forward to a four-month design...
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