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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A bill boosting the state’s school building aid program by introducing a funding minimum and removing its cap passed the New Hampshire House Thursday evening, though it faces tough odds in the Senate.With designs underway for a new middle school, the...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Despite some pushback from the teacher’s union, the Concord School Board stayed the course on plans it made Monday to reduce the number of teaching positions in elementary schools to keep pace with a shrinking student population. The board voted 8-1...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Eliminating elementary teaching positions and a proposed middle school resource officer, while including a new math interventionist and world language teachers at Rundlett, the Concord School Board made a balance of cuts and additions to its draft...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The debate surrounding the school resource officer position at Rundlett Middle School continued during the Concord school budget hearing on Wednesday, drawing concerned community members eager to voice their apprehensions about the role.The school...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

As the number of school-aged children in Concord drops and more families choose educational options outside public school, the Concord School District has seen a long pattern of declining enrollment.On the backdrop of shrinking elementary school class...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A proposal from Rundlett Principal Jay Richard to add a school resource officer at the middle school — costing roughly $100,000 — has met resistance from school board members and parent.Richard and other administrators argued that adding the position...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Concord School Board will hold public hearings on Monday and Wednesday next week to gather community input on its proposed budget. In the preliminary budget, the general fund — 95% of school spending — would increase about $1.78 million, or 1.67%,...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In every other class they attended, they were known to their teachers and fellow students as Adyson, Ruth, Ava, Olivia, Lillian, and Addison. But to each other — inside a maze mimicking a burning house, blindfolded as they navigated a narrow passage...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After pushback from teachers, Concord Superintendent Kathleen Murphy withdrew a plan to combine the principal positions at Mill Brook and Broken Ground elementary schools next year.“I received a lot of feedback from staff and other folks, and upon...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Deerfield voters said they wanted more choices for the town’s high-school-aged students. A year later, with tuition agreements finalized and approved for three area schools, they’ll get it – at a steep price. “What we were saying last year is that...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN and MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A petition asking the Concord School Board to revisit its decision to locate a new middle school on the East Side has garnered almost 800 signatures, yet the chance of another vote remains dim.Few school board members have expressed a desire to reopen...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Teachers at Broken Ground and Mill Brook elementary schools are pushing back against a proposal by Superintendent Kathleen Murphy to combine their principal positions at the end of this school year. “We need more boots on the ground, not less. We need...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In a best-case scenario, the Concord School District would receive no more than $32 million – less than half of what it asked for – in state money for the middle school project due to changes to the school building aid program taking effect this...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Like any former Concord High graduate, Dalton Mutz knows the limitations of Memorial Field. With poor drainage after rain, the facility has garnered the nickname “the swamp." Mutz, who ran track and graduated in 2018, decided to move back to Concord...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord School Board members say the $176 million price tag for a new middle school is just an estimate – but they’re already using that figure to calculate some hard costs for the project. On Monday night, the board approved a $10.3 million contract...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Lying awake in the middle of the night, Chris O’Connor felt physically sick. He had one number he couldn’t get out of his mind: $176 million – the approved cost of a new middle school in Concord.In December, the Concord School Board voted to build a...

Once a rare sight in New Hampshire, bald eagles continue to make a resurgence with the number of breeding pairs setting new records each year. One eagle was seen sitting in the snow along Mountain Road in Concord on Tuesday.Bald eagles were removed...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Pamela Walsh was chosen as the next president of the Concord School Board at the first meeting of the year on Tuesday.Walsh, an at-large member who was the previous vice president of the board, was selected with unanimous support from all...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

Nearly 3½ years after ex-Concord High teacher Howie Leung was arrested, he has yet to face a jury in Massachusetts, where he is accused of sexually assaulting a former student. Meanwhile, across state lines, New Hampshire officials say their case...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

A former Concord student and her father are asking a federal judge to force the school district to hand over four years of records as part of their lawsuit that says administrators improperly investigated the girl’s report of sexual assault and failed...