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By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A deeply divided Merrimack Valley community narrowly approved a nearly $2 million reduction to next year’s proposed school budget late Thursday night, plunging the 2,200-student district into a period of uncertainty.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

To stave off teacher layoffs, Merrimack Valley School Board members indicated Wednesday that they may support charging families for school sports, forgoing certain building maintenance and halting a program that provides each elementary student a computer.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Ian Hart praised the Hopkinton School Board and budget committee for their efforts to tame the budget increase, pointing out that the $27.4 million spending plan had only risen by 2.29% despite the pressures of inflation.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Inside EFAs is a Monitor series about New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program. Check out the other stories in the series here.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Four days after voters approved a $2 million reduction to the Merrimack Valley School District’s budget for next year, board members clashed with their superintendent over who would have the final say over cuts.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Jessica Bickford, a longtime special education teacher and administrator, will serve as the next superintendent of the Pembroke and Deerfield School Districts, SAU executive board chair Kerri Dean announced Tuesday.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

When Pembroke residents cast their votes for school board on Tuesday, the ballot will direct them to pick two out of the three candidates running.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Despite a common grumble against rising school costs, next year’s spending plans for districts across Merrimack County show a more modest increase than last year.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

New Hampshire’s largest teachers union is challenging the Trump administration’s threat to withhold federal funding from schools that participate in diversity, equity and inclusion programming.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The Republican-controlled House Education Funding Committee on Tuesday endorsed a proposal to make New Hampshire’s school choice program fully universal starting in 2026.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The people responsible for posting a video with the sign “Jesus loves white children” outside of Pembroke’s elementary school this week shared similar videos on social media in the last year that appeared to have been filmed outside other locations around the state, including two other area schools.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

With winter sports finishing up and the spring season around the corner, a group of Bow parents is asking a federal court judge in New Hampshire to fast-track his decision on whether they can wear pink wristbands at school games to protest transgender athletes competing in girls’ sports.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Most students get to spend four years on their high school robotics team.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

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.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Ryan Schoch’s father is a mechanic. His grandfather was a mechanic and his great-grandfather was a mechanic. His godfather is a mechanic, too.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Editor’s note: This story is part of the Monitor’s Inside EFAs series, which examines New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

As part of our Inside EFAs series, the Monitor compiled a database of all Education Freedom Account spending that did not go to private school tuition.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Editor’s note: This story is part of the Monitor’s Inside EFAs series, which examines New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program. The series’ first story focused on how money is spent on private and religious schools.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

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

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The legal battle over New Hampshire’s transgender sports ban is expanding to challenge President Donald Trump’s executive orders preventing transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Editor’s Note: Comments made by Bow school board members Melynie Klunk and Jenna Reardon were incorrectly attributed in the original version of the article. Quotes from Reardon and Klunk have been changed to reflect their correct attribution.