My Turn: A disturbing exchange with Commissioner Edelblut
Gate City Charter School co-founder and longtime educator Karin Cevasco shared her conversation with New Hampshire Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut in the Concord Monitor:
"I...
Educational Opportunity Fund created to help close ed achievement gaps in...
The Portsmouth School District launched a new Educational Opportunity Fund to help close the educational opportunity gaps for low income students, reported Manchester Ink...
A Revealing Day in Manchester City Schools
Christopher Thompson, a Manchester businessman and columnist for the Union Leader, wrote about his visit to the city's schools. Thompson's reflections about the work...
Vargas, school board to renew Manchester redistricting talks
According to the Union Leader, Manchester Superintendent Dr. Bolgen Vargas will open a discussion with the school board on redistricting early next year:
"'There has...
Enrollments continue to decline across Capital area – but not everywhere
According to the Concord Monitor, fluctuations in school enrollment--often even as little as 1% annually--are creating logistical challenges, from classroom space to staffing needs:
Continuing...
Representative Cordelli: Education Savings Accounts will not destroy public education
Representative Glenn Cordelli (R-Tuftonboro) countered recent claims that SB 193, the bill that would create a statewide voucher program, would hurt public schools in...
Does school choice always have to be about private schools?
At its best, nothing is more unifying and vital to a community’s civic health than a high-quality neighborhood school. Why, then, do all notions...
Home-schooler oversight snags school choice bill
The statewide voucher bill, SB 193, would require home-schoolers who are enrolled in the program to take an approved annual assessment and report it...
School Officials Eye Voucher Bill
School administrators in the Upper Valley have mixed reactions on the impact that the proposed voucher bill, SB 193, would have on their districts,...
Risking it all for choice
The Laconia Daily Sun featured Reaching Higher NH's analysis of SB 193, the bill that would create a statewide voucher program, and reactions from...