MERRIMACK – A request for the rehearing/reconsideration of the Merrimack School District’s current homework grading protocol was denied by the State Board of Education last week without so much as a discussion by board members, according to school Superintendent Marge Chiafery. The ...
NASHUA – It may seem strange to talk to an 8-year-old about budgeting, and stranger still to teach a 10-year-old how to balance a checkbook, but according to 21st Century Program Director Gail Casey, it is never to early to talk to kids about money. This is why 21st Century and the United ...
NASHUA – The Nashua School District is looking to temporarily fill the five open assistant principal positions with recently retired principals. Pennichuck and Fairgrounds Middle schools, as well as Bicentennial, Birch Hill and Fairgrounds Elementary schools, have been without assistant ...
NASHUA – Board of Education members on Monday approved the allocation of roughly $60,000 worth of amenities and services for the district. Members approved new grade book software called TeacherEase for $36,000 as a one-year pilot program for use in the district’s 12 elementary schools. ...
MERRIMACK – After voters in the Merrimack School District approved full-day kindergarten earlier this year, Kristine Thibault, a kindergarten teacher in the district, wept tears of joy. An educator for 18 years, she was part of the kindergarten task force, a team of about 10 people dedicated ...
NASHUA – Children in the Front Door Agency’s Transformational Housing Program are starting the school year with new, well-fitting shoes, thanks to a recent $500 grant from the Amherst Junior Women’s Club. Each child received a professional shoe-fitting and made their choices from the ...
