Fair and competitive pay is critical to a strong teaching workforce,...
Fair and competitive teacher compensation is a critical part of ensuring that schools can attract and retain qualified and well-prepared teachers, Reaching Higher NH...
Legislative study committee begins studying teacher recruitment and retention
A study committee of five lawmakers will spend the next year examining the key factors in the state’s teacher workforce shortage. The Committee to...
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...
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...
7 Key Ed Policy Trends to Watch in 2022
The new legislative session is starting off in full force. Both the House and Senate’s Education Committees have public hearings scheduled through the month...
‘Stronger than I think it ever was.’ An invigorated professional community...
If you had to pick a metaphor to describe the 2021-22 school year so far, it might be hats. Educators these days are wearing...
‘You do what you’ve got to do.’ As budgets and funding...
It’s a dramatic budget season in New Hampshire. Communities are deliberating over school district budgets stretched paper thin. Legislators are hashing out bills that...
“It’s penny wise and pound foolish”: Teachers reflect on how disparities...
Every year around mid summer, the dreaded courtesy phone calls between school superintendents begin. One district unexpectedly loses a teacher to a higher paying...
Policy Brief: Teacher Salary Schedules in New Hampshire
These policy briefs explore variations in salaries across New Hampshire, focusing exclusively on salary step schedule data for NH-certified teachers with Bachelor’s degrees, and...
“There are elements that need to be changed”: School business managers...
“There are things in our standards and in our mandates that we face, that could be and should be reflected in a revised definition,”...
