Jeremy Margolis - Concord Monitor

The introduction of an enrollment cap serves as the first legislative development since an earlier universal open enrollment bill suffered a surprise defeat in the New Hampshire House of Representatives last month.

The game, called Assassins, has quickly become a senior-year tradition at many schools as eagerly anticipated as prom or graduation.

Former University of New Hampshire Police Chief Steven Lee's resignation was effective April 1, 2026, according to a UNH spokesperson.

The newest version of the open enrollment bill says local taxpayers wouldn't have to pay another school district to educate leaving students; instead, the student's state adequacy grant would leave the district with them.

Steven Lee, 50, was arrested in the early morning hours of Jan. 22 after an officer spotted his SUV swerving and nearly colliding with an 18-wheeler on Market Street in Portsmouth.

As Gov. Kelly Ayotte tasks the New Hampshire Department of Education with examining the factors driving successful literacy education at the highest-performing schools, the Concord Monitor’s analysis could offer some hints as to what the department will find.

Under the bill, families would no longer need to notify their child’s school district, public school or the Department of Education upon commencing a home education program, unless they intend to continue using public school resources.

In a statement in response, state Rep. Kristin Noble wrote that “it’s funny to watch the Democrats feign outrage when I thought they’d be supportive of managing their own schools, with libraries full of porn, biological males in girls sports and bathrooms and as much DEI curriculum as their hearts desire.”

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.