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ArchivesFederal Targets Harder to Reach for NH SchoolsBy Jon Greenberg on Monday, August 28, 2006.The state's latest report on school performance shows an increasing number are not making sufficient progress under the federal education law - No Child Left Behind. The new test results do contain some good news - seven high schools that had been listed as in need of improvement worked their way off that list. But the state has one school in Farmington that has failed to make adequate yearly progress four years in a row. Federal law requires what it calls corrective action, including the option of a state takeover. Deb Wiswell, head of the state's bureau of accountability, spoke with NHPR's Jon Greenberg. Wiswell emphasizes that state law prohibits direct state control over a local school. listen:
  Vaccine Air Drops Hold Rabies at Coos BorderBy Kerry Grens on Monday, August 28, 2006.This month planes have been flying low over the forest of Northern New England, pelting the ground with hundreds of thousands of fish-flavored treats. Their target: raccoons. The fishy treats are laced with rabies vaccine. The vaccine bait drops are part of a government strategy to halt the march of raccoon rabies across the Eastern United States. So far the program has helped stall the northward advance in New Hampshire at the North Country. But in southern New Hampshire the virus is well established and rabies cases are on the rise. New Hampshire Public Radio’s Kerry Grens reports. listen:
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