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Over the next year some 12,000 Iraqi political refugees are expected to be resettled in the United States.

New Hampshire is likely to receive 100 to 150 of them.

But people charged with preparing for the refugees’ arrival worry they might not be well received.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Dan Gorenstein reports.

Nashua’s Mayor Bernie Streeter retires from office this January, after serving two, four-year terms.

And the race to replace him is expected to be close.

The top two vote getters in September’s non-partisan primary – Donnalee Lozeau and Jim Tollner – face off on November 6.

NHPR Correspondent Sheryl Rich-Kern reports.

Three years after the state’s first Charter School opened...these alternative public schools show a mixed report card. A few are thriving, but others struggle with perennial funding issues...and for some, this legislative session could be make-or-break for their futures.

Guests

• Kimberly Casey, Democratic State Representative from East Kingston, Member of the House Education Committee and Chair of the Charter School Oversight Committee
• Mark Joyce, Executive Director for the NH School Administrators Association
• Bill Wilmot, Head of School for the Seacoast Charter School in Exeter and Consultant on Charter Schools in New Hampshire. Bill also spent time in Massachusetts as a consultant and teacher for charter schools and ran the middle school portion of a charter school there as well.