Jeremy Margolis, Concord Monitor

The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office has spent at least $1.5 million defending against a pair of school funding lawsuits that reached the state Supreme Court last year, according to a review of public records.

The students say the university has allowed the companies to deploy “surreptitious online tracking tools” on its student portal to gather the information, in violation of federal privacy laws.

The new chair, Sen. Suzanne Prentiss of Lebanon, a Democrat, said she plans to look into the program’s effect on public education funding and how families become eligible for an additional special education stipend.

A Penacook representative to the Merrimack Valley School Board said she was troubled by a high school committee’s decision to remove the "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" from the required curriculum in four tenth-grade English classes in response to a parent’s objection.

A decade after Franklin started its program, a New Hampshire Supreme Court decision last month has turned open enrollment from a fiscal lifeline to an existential threat, some superintendents of lower and moderate-income school districts worry.

A set of historic documents were part of a collection released last month by the New Hampshire State Archives in response to recent changes in state law and educational administrative rules to state history curriculum requirements.

The $5 million shortfall in Concord was driven primarily by an unexpected $2 million bill the district received on Oct. 1 from the risk pool that administers its health insurance and by student services expenses that appear set to more than double what the district had projected in the spring.

“The breadth of the anti-DEI laws’ prohibition is startling,” wrote Judge Landya B. McCafferty, with the U.S. District Court in Concord, New Hampshire. “The definition of ‘DEI’ contained [in the law] is so far-reaching that it prohibits long-accepted — even legally required — teaching and administrative practices.”

Teachers had worried about compliance with the new state law, but they say they're surprised at the extent to which those issues have failed to materialize.

The nomination of Caitlin Davis to lead the state Department of Education has been met with bipartisan praise.