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A federal judge said Wednesday that she will order the federal government to temporarily reinstate the F-1 status of a Dartmouth College PhD student whose visa was revoked without explanation last week.

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Republican politicians are pushing forward three different plans for expanding New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program.

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In the locker room of the Concord YMCA some 35 years ago, a member of Andru Volinksy’s running group approached him with a proposition: How would he like to join a trial team being assembled to sue the state of New Hampshire?

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A Boscawen, N.H., boy suffered serious injuries when he was struck by a falling tree amid high winds while walking home from school on Friday.

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In the weeks since President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at barring transgender girls and women from participating on female sports teams, New Hampshire school districts have been flooded with a flurry of conflicting guidance about how to proceed.

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Leaders of school districts hammered by the rising costs of special education services reacted with muted optimism to the news that Governor Kelly Ayotte plans to increase a component of state funding for special education by nearly 50%.

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An executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday aimed at barring transgender girls and women from participating on female sports teams has already had a tangible effect on at least one local school district.

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A trio of proposed laws would require public school health educators to show students starting in sixth grade a series of videos created by an anti-abortion organization that depict abortion procedures and fetal gestation.

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The police response to a pro-Palestine protest at the University of New Hampshire last spring that ended in a dozen arrests likely violated students’ free speech rights and should be investigated by an independent body, a university working group concluded this week.

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Longtime University of New Hampshire Police Chief Paul Dean, under scrutiny for his role in the response to a pro-Palestine protest last May, will leave the university to become incoming Governor Kelly Ayotte’s director of citizen services.

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More than 1,400 residents flooded Kearsarge Regional High School on Saturday morning to prevent their school district from becoming the next Croydon or Pembroke.In a show of rousing support for public education, voters soundly defeated a proposal that...

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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...

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Vandals finished the job late Monday or early Tuesday, fully destroying the The Satanic Temple statue that had been erected in front of the State House on Saturday evening.The final blows came after the the statue was repeatedly damaged during the...

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Editor’s note: Tracking 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...

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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...

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Participation in New Hampshire’s education freedom account program has risen 26% since the beginning of last school year, according to recently released Department of Education data.A total of 5,321 students have enrolled in the program as it enters...

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Lawyers on Thursday asked a federal court to rule New Hampshire’s controversial transgender sports law unconstitutional for all students — not just their two clients — setting up a potentially precedent-setting court decision.The new request — made...

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On the evening University of New Hampshire police arrested 12 people outside the building that would soon become her office, Elizabeth Chilton was 3,000 miles away, serving as the chancellor of Washington State University’s flagship campus.Six days...

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Merrimack Valley’s bus driver shortage grew so dire on Monday that Superintendent Randy Wormald found himself behind the wheel of a van en-route to Loudon, N.H.“We’re paper thin and have everyone driving,” Wormald said. “If I’m driving a van, we’re...

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Less than two weeks before the presidential primary this year, New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Chris Ager received a mysterious package.Ager wondered if it was hate mail or a death threat, both of which he had received in the past. But his...

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Ten women alleged in lawsuits filed over the last week that a female correctional officer sexually assaulted and harassed them while they were held at a minimum-security state prison in Concord from 2003 to 2022.The lawsuits — which were filed...