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 170 kindergarten-aged students had been pre-registered for the program as of earlier ...

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 11 districts in the state without a kindergarten program by the start of the ...

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 proposed operating budget – roughly $54.7 million after the Budget Committee ...

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, the School Board could create a separate warrant article to put in front ...

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 the law,” said Stephen Campbell, a 14-year member of Salem’s Budget ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEIt’s all about reaching out to the community. The School Board held a retreat to gauge progress on its goals from last year and focus on the future. The message that came out of the Wednesday, May 14, meeting is clear – the board is making communication with the public a top priority for the coming year. Terry Wolf, ...

BY JENN McDOWELL An amendment to a bill going through the state Legislature that mandates public kindergarten for districts without it poses several options for communities looking to establish a program by the September 2009 deadline. Rep. Lynne Ober, one of the drafters of the amendment to the state’s original kindergarten ...

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 the eighth-grade graduation ceremony in exchange for a less formal way of showing ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY Walking to school will soon be a safer option for children attending Hopkinton’s Harold Martin Elementary School. The school has been awarded a $31,000 grant from the New Hampshire Department of Transportation that the Hopkinton School District will be able to put toward improvements for student safety. School ...