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By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Local election results in Concord on Nov. 5 will include tallies for a pair of amendments to the school district’s charter that would give the public more say over major decisions involving school building moves and property sales.While those...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Kass Ardinger saw this coming.Last December, when the Concord School Board seemed poised to relocate the middle school across the river, she issued a warning.More than 100 people had turned out to the meeting, urging the board to rebuild Rundlett...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Over 200 students with disabilities have enrolled in the Concord School District since last summer, an influx that has far exceeded the district’s projections and strained its support services.The unexpected increase will cost the district about...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The atmosphere inside Nashua’s new middle school differs dramatically from the school it replaced, a dark and gloomy 85-year-old building about five miles away.Natural light pours through the expansive glass windows. Almost all the classrooms are...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

As any middle school math student knows, just writing the answer to a question isn’t enough. Students must show their work.Based on estimates from its architects, the school board set a $152 million budget cap for the middle school project in July....

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord’s school board planned to build a new junior high school and city residents wanted answers about the location.An architect slammed the proposed property as “too remote,” questioning whether the parcel’s size, larger than others considered,...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A pair of amendments that will serve as a referendum on the autonomy of the Concord School Board will require a supermajority of 60% to pass, rather than the lower state law threshold of 50%.In interviews, two Concord attorneys dismissed any argument...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

When Michelle Beauregard’s son has no money in his lunch account, he doesn’t eat.The Concord High School junior could, to be clear, purchase the cafeteria’s hot lunch option. But Beauregard’s middle child is a loyal pizza eater, and pizza is an à la...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Concord’s first director of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice transitioned to a new role at the beginning of the year focusing on restorative justice at the middle school.Quinci Worthey, hired as the DEIJ director in 2022, will spend at least...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Six members of the Concord School Board and about 15 members of the public toured the forest that, if all goes to the district’s plan, will one day be city’s new middle school.“So, here, at this intersection, this is right in the middle of where the...

By LINDA O’ROURKE

Linda O’Rourke lives in Bow. The location of the new Concord middle school has been a hot topic as of late. I have been teaching at Rundlett Middle School for 26 years and am presently a member of the district’s Building Committee. While I can...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

As its president and its longest-serving member, respectively, Pamela Walsh and Barb Higgins are fixtures of the Concord School Board.They’re both being challenged by four candidates who, in some way, are running because of how the board’s decision...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In school elections shaping up to be a referendum on the middle school project, two incumbents and four challengers are vying for three seats on the Concord School Board.With the filing period now closed, the field has come into view. Board President...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

On the rare occasions Rundlett Middle School principal Jay Richard takes his phone out during the school day, his students hound him.“Mr. Richard, we’re not supposed to be on phones during school,” they gleefully remind him.But Richard needs no...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Joe Scroggins is one of more than 1,500 people who signed petitions to reduce the power of the Concord School Board and to rebuild the middle school in the South End where he lives with his family.After months of conversations with neighbors who were...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the Concord School Board’s position that the charter amendments need a three-fifths vote to pass.Nicole Fox, the mother of three children in the Concord School District, believes the Concord School...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Andrew Winters knows that if he won a seat on the Concord School Board, he couldn’t single-handedly overturn its decision to move the middle school to the East Side of the city. But he wants to try.Like many fellow residents, he can’t see why the...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The Concord School Board will hold a public hearing on two proposed amendments to the district charter Monday night that, if passed, could strip the board of some of its autonomy.The pair of proposed changes, brought on by a citizens’ petition that...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Ally Snell, the mother of a third grader at the Abbot-Downing School, had never attended a Concord School Board meeting until Thursday night.But, a day after the board’s clerk certified a citizens’ petition that could re-open deliberations on the...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The filing period for three at-large seats on the Concord School Board opens in less than two weeks.Pamela Walsh, the current school board president, Barbara Higgins and Bob Cotton currently hold the seats — they haven’t said whether they’ll run again...