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By GEOFF FORESTER and ARIANNA MacNEILL

Wednesday was the first day of school in Concord, including Merrimakc Valley, and the beginning of the new academic year evoked a holiday feeling for Beaver Meadow Elementary School Principal Michele Vance, staff and students.“The first day of school...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Transgender girls have already sued two New Hampshire school districts, alleging that a newly enacted law that bars them from playing on girls’ sports teams violates their rights.Late last week, the Kearsarge Regional School District decided it didn’t...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The campus of a tiny Catholic college in Warner that closed earlier this year will likely remain a destination for members of the Catholic faith.The Roman Catholic Church in New Hampshire has reached a tentative agreement to buy 135 acres of land and...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The New Hampshire Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit that challenged a Manchester school district policy that protects transgender students’ privacy and requires staff to refer to those children using their chosen pronouns.This policy...

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...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A transgender girl in Plymouth can continue to play on her school’s girls soccer team for at least the next two weeks despite a newly enacted law that bars her from doing so, a federal court judge ruled Tuesday.During a 90-minute hearing at the U.S....

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Parker Tirrell went down after a hard foul in front of goal in the second half of a girls’ soccer scrimmage Tuesday night, and she drew a much-needed penalty for her team while down 1-0.Tirrell played for Plymouth Regional High School in a friendly...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS andSRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Just hours after a court hearing in Concord, 15-year-old Parker Tirrell, a transgender girl, was on her way to lace up her soccer cleats and join her teammates for girls’ soccer tryouts at Plymouth Regional High School on Monday night.A federal judge...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

When Cali Rollins showed up to her first Merrimack Valley Middle School softball practice in 2023, she had little idea of the legacy that preceded her. But when her mother, Morgan Mahon, emailed her daughter’s new coach that spring, Tom Burke had...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN, JEREMY MARGOLIS and MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A tentative agreement brokered Friday to allow a transgender Plymouth girl to temporarily practice on the girls’ soccer team has fallen through, according to two people familiar with the situation.Instead, a determination on whether Parker Tirrell – a...

By GEORGE KELLY

George Kelly is a resident of East Concord, and a retired public school educator/ administrator. Methinks the Concord School Board ought to pile into a van, preferably an unmarked one, and take a drive across the river up “Gully Hill,” past the state...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Editor’s note: A tentative agreement brokered Friday to allow a transgender Plymouth girl to temporarily practice on the girls’ soccer team has fallen through, according to two people familiar with the situation. Read an updated story here.Parker...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN and MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Parker Tirrell lives and breathes soccer. Iris Turmelle was looking forward to giving tennis and track a shot.Last week, both teenagers were informed by their schools that a new law passed by the legislature means they wouldn’t be allowed to play on...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

At the age of 16, as the pandemic began, Charity McRae dropped out of Concord High School.“I don’t learn like most traditional kids, so sitting in a classroom with 40 kids wasn’t really the best for me,” McRae said.Over the ensuing four years, she got...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The summer break has done little to quell the exodus of Pembroke schools employees from the district following last spring’s controversial school budget cut.Five more employees have resigned since the start of the summer, with some citing the...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Iris Turmelle leaned back in the car’s rear seat, letting the warmth of the July sun bathe her face as she headed to a sleepover at her friend’s house. But a text message from her mother, shattered that Friday afternoon, overwhelming her with anger...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The New Hampshire Board of Education voted Wednesday to approve new minimum educational standards that some believe could reshape K-12 education in the state.Opponents of the revisions to the so-called 306 Rules have argued that they will diminish...

By PAMELA WALSH

Pamela Walsh is President / Member-At-Large, Concord School Board. I didn’t run for school board because I wanted to build a new middle school. Then and now, I wanted to focus on helping students recover from COVID, improving academics, and carefully...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Last fall, high school teacher Penny Culliton received a notice from the New Hampshire Department of Education that appeared to expand the scope of a parental notification law passed in 2017. The department’s initial advisory to schools had said that...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A University of New Hampshire prosecutor this week dropped criminal charges against seven of the people arrested during a May 1 pro-Palestine protest after they accepted plea agreements.The seven cases were dismissed nearly three months after UNH...