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By KIERA McLAUGHLIN

Students from 13 schools around New England recently took on the Community Changemaker Challenge, including Kearsarge Regional High School and Hopkinton High School.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

New Hampshire’s expanded Education Freedom Account program will likely hit a 10,000-student cap set by lawmakers this year, according to new numbers released after a sign-up deadline this week.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A Philadelphia-based free speech group and two more residents have filed a legal brief in support of parents challenging a court ruling that sided with the Bow School District after it barred parents from wearing pink wristbands to protest transgender athletes in girls’ sports.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Merle DeWitt spends an extra 30-40 minutes in the car each day, toting his 16-year-old son, Gavin, to Prospect Mountain High School in Alton. The school is several towns away from their home in Epsom but it’s worth it to DeWitt .

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 CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Heather Barber has read “To Kill a Mockingbird” cover-to-cover at least six times.

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

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

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

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 SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The federal government is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two transgender high school athletes in New Hampshire, arguing that President Donald Trump’s executive order does not discriminate against them.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

At the tail end of Hopkinton’s graduating class filing into the Durgin Pulling Arena, Constantine Salce rolled in with a bright smile, his electric wheelchair carrying him into a well-earned moment of celebration.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Alissa Hamberg once saw school — and herself — as a lost cause.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

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

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.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Shaun St. Onge, the current principal of Manchester Memorial High School, was selected to become Merrimack Valley High School’s next principal.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

This story is the fifth in an ongoing series about New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program. Read the other stories here.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Maggie Hall was eight years old when her grandmother was diagnosed with multiple myeloma.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

He may have been a year behind her in school, but Kayleigh Hollis looks up to her younger brother, Kaiden. 

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

When Gov. Kelly Ayotte called on the state legislature to pass a school phone ban in January, the pivotal question wasn’t whether the widely popular policy would pass but how far it would go.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Catherine Masterson, a Merrimack Valley High School graduate and longtime teacher and administrator in the district, will serve as its next superintendent.