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By JEREMY MARGOLIS

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.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

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...

SHARON — The School Board has scheduled three meetings in January to address the school budget and a possible bond vote in March for school facilities improvements. The board announced Thursday that it is considering a possible renovation project for...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Protests from outsiders and potential harm to students are driving the Bow School District’s continuing efforts to prevent parents from resuming pink armband demonstrations against transgender athletes, according to documents filed in a federal court...

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 EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — Dartmouth College Child Care Center employees voted to unionize this week, a little more than a week after the college announced it had dropped plans to pursue partnering with a for-profit child care provider to operate the center.On...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WOODSTOCK — A divided Mountain Views School Board voted 8-7 at a special meeting Monday night to restore all of the unified arts positions eliminated in an initial budget proposal first presented to the board last month. The original proposal...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

SOUTH ROYALTON — After more than three decades as an educator in the Upper Valley, the principal of White River Valley High School has announced plans to retire at the end of the current school year.Jeff Thomas, 59, sent his letter of resignation to...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

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...

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 ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Vermonters can expect a 5.9% average increase in education property taxes next year absent major changes, according to a forecast from the Vermont Department of Taxes.The news arrived Monday in the form of the “Dec. 1 letter,” an annual projection...

Secondary accomplishmentsThe following Lebanon High School 10th graders were named to the highest honors list for the first quarter: Cathryn Bachelder; Finn Danaher; Ian Danen-Lucier; Amy Dixon-Vestal; Charles Ferland; Emily Groves; Mason Gailey;...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Kyle Fellers, one of the Bow, N.H., 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...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

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...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — The School Board voted Wednesday to proceed with a search for a new superintendent with the goal of inking a contract by late March. The vote was 4-0 in favor of going forward. Board member Nancy Russell was absent.The search is being...

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Plymouth State University has become one of the first colleges in the country to offer an accredited in-person bachelor’s degree in three years, an example of higher education adapting in the face of tightening enrollments and changing public...

CLAREMONT — Stevens High School reopened with normal hours on Monday after the school district assessed that there was no evidence to show a threat of violence that forced officials to close the school on Friday was credible.“After further...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

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...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

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...

Amid the uproar over the dramatic spike in school taxes many communities experienced this year, the Legislature created the Commission on the Future of Public Education in Vermont. It is charged with studying “the provision of education in Vermont and...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WOODSTOCK — More than 300 residents from towns in the Mountain Views Supervisory Union have signed a petition urging state legislators to restore state aid for school construction.The petition continues to circulate on local Listservs and distributed...