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• Haigh School remains open

  BY DERRICK PERKINS The Walter F. Haigh Elementary School is here to stay. The School Board voted 4-1 on Oct. 20 to keep the 55-year-old building open and pursue a master facilities plan incorporating all six elementary schools in Salem. The move came Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 1:45 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, school board, Haigh Elementary

• Master plan may mean one less elementary school

  BY DERRICK PERKINS Digging in for a tough fight, parents are mobilizing to save the Walter F. Haigh School as the School Board considers a master plan that could close the elementary school. No final decision has been made. Estimates predict the district Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:08 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, students, school board, 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

• 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

• 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 teens send nude photos by phone

  BY DERRICK PERKINS Parents of Salem High School students met with school and law enforcement officials to address the issue of graphic photographs of young women that circulated throughout the student body via cell phones late last week. Administrators, Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:49 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Police, salem high school, school board

• 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

• Salem secretaries union drops petition for revote

  BY JENN McDOWELL After renegotiating their contract with the Salem School Board, the Salem Educational Personnel Association has withdrawn its Superior Court petition asking for a judge’s approval for a special meeting and revote on salary increases Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:02 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, voting, school board, school

• Salem school secretaries want vote

  BY JENN McDOWELL The Salem school secretaries union is just about ready to file a Superior Court petition asking that an item for a vote on renegotiated raises be placed on the September primary ballot. Jack Brouse of the National Education Association, Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:56 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, school board

• Salem School Board dumps 8th-grade graduation

  BY JIM DEVINE It may be a promotion, completion or accomplishment, but the School Board won’t be callings eighth-graders “graduates” at their June ceremony this year. On Tuesday, April 15, the School Board unanimously agreed to forego Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:18 PM by Salem Editor | 3 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kids & Family, Education, school board

• Charter reform may be in Salem’s future

  BY JIM DEVINE Selectmen voted to create a charter reform committee but plans for the panel have yet to be nailed down. In a unanimous vote on Monday, April 14, selectmen approved a proposal by Selectman Michael Lyons to create a seven- person panel to Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:52 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Selectmen, school board, capital improvement, charter, budget committee

• Five candidates file for two selectman seats

  By Darrell Halen If Everett McBride Jr. and Michael Lyons return to the Salem Board of Selectmen in March, it will not have been without a fight. Two seats on the board are available this year, and three other candidates – Ron Giordano, John J. Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:32 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Merrimack Valley, school board