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By RACHEL WACHMAN

Two of Heather Sargent’s children came home crying on Monday afternoon after their bus driver, Shawn Newell – known as “Mr. Shawn” to the kids he transports – was removed from his role driving for Allenstown Community School’s purple bus route, she...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Longtime educator Dan Morris will step down as headmaster of Pembroke Academy at the end of this school year, he announced earlier this month.The fallout from voters’ $3 million cut to the proposed school budget contributed to his decision to...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Merrimack Valley High School senior Keighen Duppong knows attending the University of New Hampshire would likely cost thousands of dollars less per year than most of the schools on his college list.Duppong, who plans to study applied physics, has sent...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

The Pembroke School Board has a lot to weigh going into budget season for the next school year.The next proposed budget seeks to add $2 million in spending, bringing the total to $33.3 million.The schools are still feeling the effects of last year’s...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Pittsfield school superintendent Bryan Lane resigned effective immediately at the school board meeting last week. Lane declined to share the reasons behind his resignation but said he looks forward to spending more time with his family.“I’m proud of...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

The Department of Education named the Christa McAuliffe School as a “Distinguished School” based on the high academic achievement of its students.The Concord elementary school takes its place alongside around 100 schools across the United States...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Hiring superintendents, principals and nurses is not necessary to provide the state’s youngest residents with an adequate education, Solicitor General Anthony Galdieri argued at the New Hampshire Supreme Court on Tuesday.Neither is providing heat...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

In Rick Ladd’s 16 years in the State House, he’d never seen so many education bills.That is, until 2022, when they skyrocketed – so much so that Ladd, a Haverhill Republican and chair of the House Education Committee, said lawmakers can no longer...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Editor’s note: Inside EFAs is a new occasional Monitor series that will examine New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program from multiple perspectives over the coming months.The vast majority of money from New Hampshire’s four-year-old school...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord’s school board is at a crossroads.An election day vote threw plans to build a new middle school into the ringer, and the board now faces a variety of options about what to do next. None have officially been ruled out, but their once-fervent...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A proposal by district administrators to raise meal prices in Merrimack Valley schools was temporarily tabled by the school board on Monday, with some members expressing concern that any increase could further hamstring families who are struggling to...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The Kearsarge Regional School District has yet to face any legal consequences for declining to comply with a new state law barring transgender girls from participating on girls’ sports teams, according to Superintendent John Fortney’s response to a...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Moo-ve over, class fish and hamsters. Merrimack Valley Middle School math teacher Becky King has adopted a cow.Bonnie, a Brown Swiss dairy cow, does not literally live in King’s sixth-grade classroom, but her presence is very much felt. The...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Most visual artists stick to a primary surface. Jaeden Taylor is not like most artists.The Merrimack Valley High School junior has designed gnomes adorned with three-dimensional beards and has sold painted rocks that customers use as paperweights.Even...

By CARISA CORROW

Carisa Corrow of Penacook is co-author of “126 Falsehoods We Believe About Education” and founder of Educating for Good. In Nov. 12th’s Monitor, reporter Jeremy Margolis asserted that “Poorer school districts in Merrimack County [are] lagging on...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

New Hampshire schools likely surpassed $1 billion in special education spending for the first time last year, though the final numbers are still rolling in.As special education costs have steadily risen since the pandemic, state aid has stayed roughly...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Hopkinton School Board members erupted in anger at the state Legislature over news delivered earlier this month that school districts would receive significantly less money to cover certain special education expenses than they are eligible to...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

School Superintendent Marcy Kelley told a federal judge that the symbol “XX” displayed on pink armbands worn by Bow parents should be banned from all sporting events going forward, whether or not a transgender athlete is playing.Kelley repeatedly...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Kyle Fellers, one of the Bow parents suing the school district over its handling of a silent protest against transgender girls in sports, described gender inclusion policies that infringe on  female protections in educational settings as an effort to...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A resolution will not come until at least next school year in a lawsuit challenging New Hampshire’s ban on transgender girls’ participation on girls’ sports teams, a federal court judge ruled during a court conference on Thursday.Lawyers for the two...