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• Kindergarten ready to roll - First year for Salem, Pelham and Windham begins Sept. 2

  BY DERRICK PERKINS School district officials say they are ready to roll out the town’s first public kindergarten program for the inaugural 213 students when the school year begins Sept. 2. “We’re good to go,” Edie Soley, assistant Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:41 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kindergarten, school, Pelham: Windham

• Salem school officials say last-minute kindergarten sign-ups will have them scrambling

  BY DERRICK PERKINS Officials fear a sudden surge in kindergarten enrollments in late summer could make the start of the school year a little more hectic than usual. According to Superintendent Michael Delahanty, the district projected that around 300 Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 10:52 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kindergarten, school

• Salem kindergarten plans underway - students signing up

  BY DERRICK PERKINS With funding for Salem’s public kindergarten program now restored to the school district’s operating budget, officials look forward to tying up the administrative details in time for the start of school in the fall. About Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:41 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kids & Family, Kindergarten, school board, school

• Money restored to budget for Salem kindergarten

  BY DERRICK PERKINS Residents voted overwhelming to restore $1.6 million in funding to the Salem School District’s operating budget for a state-mandated kindergarten program at the district’s Feb. 5 deliberative session of School District Meeting. Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:56 PM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Salem, Budget, Kindergarten

• Salem schools could lose $5 million without kindergarten

  BY DERRICK PERKINS Superintendent Michael Delahanty worries that the penalty for not starting a kindergarten program could come at the cost of financial aid, though state officials have not made a clear decision on what actions may be taken. Any of the Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2009 3:27 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kids & Family, Budget, Kindergarten, school board

• Restoring kindergarten money to be discussed in Salem

  BY DERRICK PERKINS Voters will have the chance to either restore funding for the state-mandated kindergarten program to the budget or leave it by the wayside at the deliberative session of the School District meeting on Feb. 5. The school district’s Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:11 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kids & Family, voting, Kindergarten, school board

• District considers other ways to fund Salem kindergarten

  BY DERRICK PERKINS With hopes of having funding restored for kindergarten pinned on a Feb. 5 deliberative session, school officials are examining what budget cuts could be made to ensure the program is in place come fall. According to Superintendent Michael Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:21 PM by Salem Editor | 2 Comments Filed under: Salem, Budget, Kindergarten, School district

• Salem school officials disappointed by decision to remove kindergarten from budget

  BY DERRICK PERKINS A Budget Committee decision to remove kindergarten from the school district’s proposed budget for next year has made starting the program more difficult, but not impossible, say officials. According to Superintendent Michael Delahanty, Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:10 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kids & Family, voting, Kindergarten, school board

• Critics say Salem board should fight kindergarten plan

  BY DERRICK PERKINS One member of the budget committee has criticized the Salem School Board for not following nearby Hudson in challenging the state’s public kindergarten mandate in court. “It just annoys me that the School Board is ignoring Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:22 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kids & Family, Budget, voting, Kindergarten, school board

• Salem's private kindergartens get ready to regroup

  BY DERRICK PERKINS Private kindergartens are quietly adjusting for what many see as a significant future drop in their enrollment when state-mandated public kindergartens begin next autumn. For some private kindergartens, that will mean gearing toward Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:18 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, schools, Kindergarten

• Salem may use portables for kindergarten

  BY DERRICK PERKINS Under the gun to put in place a public kindergarten by September of next year, School Board members are leaning toward accepting the state’s offer of leasing portable classrooms. “In order to have something in place by next Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:14 PM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Salem, schools, Kindergarten, school board

• N.H. gives towns another year to start kindergarten

  BY JENN McDOWELL School officials for Salem, Pelham and Windham schools are breathing a sigh of relief now that the state has agreed to extend the deadline for instituting public kindergarten. In its definition of an adequate education, the state Legislature Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:37 PM by Salem Editor | 4 Comments Filed under: Salem, Windham, schools, Pelham, Derry, Kindergarten, school board, auburn, lyndeborough, hudson, mason, litchfield, milford, chester, mascenic

• ‘Impractical solution’ to Salem's kindergarten mandate

  BY JENN McDOWELL Salem school officials said a proposed amendment to the public kindergarten mandate allowing districts to temporarily contract with private establishments will neither hasten nor simplify the road to establishing kindergarten programs. Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:11 PM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kindergarten

• As kindergarten deadline looms, Salem officials wait on state

  BY JENN McDOWELL As the September 2009 deadline for instituting public kindergarten in 11 school districts throughout the state approaches, school officials grapple meeting that deadline, space issues, state funding and meeting the deadline. Some said Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:21 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Windham, Pelham, Kindergarten

• School districts may get reprieve on kindergarten deadline

  BY DARRELL HALEN A legislative committee has voted to recommend giving 11 school districts a one-year extension to start a public kindergarten program in their communities. That’s welcome news to school officials in Salem, Windham and Pelham – Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:11 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kids & Family, Merrimack Valley, Windham, schools, Pelham, Kindergarten