Youth Retention Initiative webinar to feature Reaching Higher’s Nicole Heimarck

Nicole Heimarck, Executive Director of Reaching Higher NH and Director of the New Hampshire Alliance for College and Career Readiness, will serve as a...

Fostering inclusivity and high-quality instruction: Strategies for diversifying the educator workforce

As Senate Bill 236, a bill to study teacher incentives and retention, moves through the state legislature, research suggests that the study committee should...

High Stakes for Higher Education: NH leaders and lawmakers seek innovative...

Higher education has undergone intense change in recent years, due to factors including demographic trends, workforce demands, student needs, and economic realities. In response,...

WEBINAR: Budget and Tax Caps in New Hampshire

Our policy Director, Christina Pretorius, was joined by Zack Sheehan, Project Director of the New Hampshire School Funding Fairness Project, to provide an overview...

House committee revives school budget cap bill 

The House Municipal and County Government Committee recommended adding HB 1393, the bill that would have allowed school district voters to impose a school...

Youth Retention Initiative webinar emphasizes inclusive narratives, collaboration

Ensuring all New Hampshire young people find meaningful postsecondary pathways starts with adopting inclusive language, Reaching Higher’s Nicole Heimarck explained during an April 12...

When less is more: How one small NH school is embracing...

The students in Lori Palmer’s 4th- and 5th-grade math class at Freedom Elementary School are up to something big, tiny as it may look.  For...

House passes school funding bill, teacher workforce study group; tables school...

The NH House of Representatives passed several bills during a two-day session May 4 and 5 including SB 420, creating a $25 million extraordinary...

Four schools honored as 2022 ‘Schools of Excellence’

Four schools have earned the distinction of 2022 NH Schools of Excellence, the New Hampshire Excellence in Education (EDies) Board announced this week:  Manchester’s Highland-Goffe’s...

NH Education News Digest, May 2022: Special Higher Education Edition

Dear Friends and Colleagues,  May is an exciting month on the college-and-career pathway. Many high school seniors have just made the momentous decision about what...