Unfair to Home Schoolers

According to the most recent NECAP test results, 61 percent, 68 percent and 28 percent of 11th grade students statewide fall below the “proficient” level in writing, mathematics and reading respectively. By this grade, $1.7 billion has been spent to...

NH Education Commissioner will not seek another term

January 27, 2009 Seacoast Online CONCORD — Gov. John Lynch today thanked Education Commissioner Lyonel Tracy for his service to the State of New Hampshire. Tracy has told Gov. Lynch that he will not seek reappointment when his term expires at the end of March....

Bedford chooses fuzzy math

January 2009 This is the Union Leader article as it appeared in the McGraw-Hill’s Wright Group magazine. This report provides the rebuttal and evidence that CMP is considered a ‘fuzzy math’ program. An Evaluation of CMP by R. James Milgram This...

Local Control an Issue for Raymond School Board Members

Seacoast Online RAYMOND — School board members debated a number of topics ranging from special education to the possibility of a statewide teachers’ contract as they prepared for the New Hampshire School Board Association’s 2009 assembly last weekend....

Serious Threat to Homeschool Freedom in NH (HB 367 and HB 368)

January 18, 2009 Thanks to HSLDA According to the HSLDA, HB 367 and HB 368 are two proposed laws that represent the most serious legislative threat ever faced by New Hampshire homeschoolers. HB 367 would drastically change the current evaluation and assessment section...

MVRSD to Hold Hearings on International Baccalaureate

URGENT NOTICE Please spread this to other parents in the MVRSD. There is still time to question the Merrimack Valley School District about their intention to spend extra money on a program called International Baccalaureate. [They have since adopted it] This program...