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By CHLOE RATTEE

Bow resident Christopher Lins has never shied away from speaking his mind, which is why he agreed to lead the challenge last year of the book “Gender Queer: A Memoir.” Other parents asked him to be the face of the issue because of their fear of...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A day before a pro-Palestine protest at the University of New Hampshire earlier this month, a staff member in the university’s Office of Student Life passed on to administrators that he got word of a “plan to engage in encampment,” according to an...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

At the beginning of this school year, the 270-student Franklin High School employed only one math and one science teacher, an educator shortage so dire that district administrators informed parents at a meeting last fall that they would be unable to...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

It was supposed to be a yearlong effort to help blunt and ultimately reverse pandemic-related learning loss in math.Using relief funding from the federal government, the Concord School District pulled six expert math teachers from their classrooms in...

By RICHARD W. OSBORNE

Richard W. Osborne lives in Contoocook. Today, May 17, is the anniversary of a milestone in American jurisprudence. It was on this date, seventy years ago that the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case of Brown v. Board of...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A bill that would require teachers to notify parents at least two weeks before they introduce content about sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, passed the Senate Thursday, much to the chagrin of its longest-serving...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The New Hampshire Senate passed a bill Thursday that would ban transgender girls from participating on public school-sponsored sports teams starting in fifth grade.The bill, HB 1205, was passed by the House in March and now heads to Gov. Chris...

By TESS SUMNER

Tess Sumner is a student at Newfound Regional High School in Bristol. As a young citizen of New Hampshire, I want to express my reservations about House Bill 1312. This bill is just one example of a recurring trend in the legislative landscape, where...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The University of New Hampshire’s oldest building was vandalized with the phrase “UNH FUNDS GENOCIDE” early Tuesday morning.An individual in an oversized white sweatshirt, black pants, and a facemask was captured on security camera footage at 3:58...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The University of New Hampshire’s Faculty Senate passed a resolution Monday calling on the university to conduct an investigation of its police response to a May 1 pro-Palestine protest. The resolution came 12 days after UNH police arrested a dozen...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

After police pushed Dartmouth professor Annelise Orleck to the ground and arrested her in an exchange that has since gone viral, an officer told her partner, “Age doesn’t matter if there’s bad behavior,” she said.“They clearly were told it was okay to...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A massive budget cut sustained by the Pembroke School District in March has thrust the future of a long-planned elementary school building project into uncertainty.The plan to renovate or rebuild the kindergarten through fourth grade Pembroke Hill...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A controversial bill that would ban transgender girls from participating on NHIAA- sanctioned girls’ sports teams in New Hampshire is expected to be voted on by the Senate next week, after it received support from the Senate’s Education Committee on...

By DEB HOWES and MEGAN TUTTLE

Deb Howes lives in Hudson and is the president of AFT-NH. Megan Tuttle lives in Concord and is the president of NEA-New Hampshire. Every student, no matter the color of their skin or the zip code they live in, deserves educators who are caring,...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Kyle Repucci, current superintendent of schools in his hometown of Rochester, will be the new principal of Broken Ground elementary next year after the school board unanimously approved his hiring Monday night. It’s been awhile — eight years — since...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The University of New Hampshire on Tuesday named Elizabeth Chilton, the current chancellor of Washington State University’s flagship campus, as its next president.Chilton, an anthropologist, has also served as a dean at Binghamton University and as an...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Five days after police arrested 12 pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of New Hampshire, students and faculty called for the resignation of university Police Chief Paul Dean after they say he assaulted a student while responding to last...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Five years after planning for a new school building in Allenstown began and 19 months after builders broke ground at 171 River Road, the Allenstown Community School opened on Friday.The big day was celebrated with white shirts emblazoned with...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

At the foot of Mount Kearsarge in Warner, a campus designed to mimic a quintessential New England town is home to the smallest higher education institution in New Hampshire.Founded in 1973, Magdalen College – with a current enrollment of 65 – has...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A controversial bill that would have required teachers to answer all questions from parents “completely and honestly” was narrowly voted down by New Hampshire’s House.The 185-176 vote to kill the bill was celebrated by LGBTQ advocates and the leaders...