BY GRETA CUYLERSouthern New Hampshire University is gearing up for a nearly $20 million construction project to include a new academic building, dining hall and parking lot on North River Road. If approved by the town, the university plans to break ground this summer; construction will last 16 to 18 months, SNHU President Paul LeBlanc said. ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEYBy state law, public school students are allowed no more than five minutes of unsupervised prayer before classes begin each day. A policy draft for Bedford aims to provide that freedom to district students. At the Monday, May 14, meeting, the School Board heard the first reading of a freedom of assembly/religion draft and ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEYOver the past two years, report cards grading Bedford students have changed. For about two years, the Bedford School District has been issuing parent-friendly elementary school report cards. Starting next school year, the new grading process for fifth- and sixth-graders will be in place. And, seventh- and eight-grade report cards ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNKindergartners, don’t fret. You may still get into Harvard even if your report card shows that you need to improve your ability to name geometric shapes, plan and control your body movements or recite the alphabet. But your report card will be changing, and becoming more stringent, at almost every level of your ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNSeveral Manchester parents told a committee considering the future of West High School – which will see an exodus of Bedford students over the next two years – that a simple solution would be to send all students from Hooksett, Auburn and Candia to the West Side school. “I think the most practical solution is to ...

BY MATT HERSHThough state legislators agree that kindergarten should be included an adequate education, bringing a kindergarten program to Salem is still a matter of funding and space. Late last month, the House voted 226-132 to approve a definition of adequate education that includes a mandatory halfday kindergarten. Though the definition still ...

By Ryan O’Connor Staff Writer Several weeks after the Hopkinton School Board received a report on 18 months of facility needs and adequacy findings, a recent tax increase may have thrown a wrench into the district’s plans to pursue building improvements. Although the school budget increased from ...

By Rod Hansen Staff Writer Recognition can work just as well as punishment in creating an orderly school environment. That’s the guiding theory behind PBIS, an approach to education that centers on recognizing good behavior as a means of creating an orderly school environment. Educators at New Boston Central ...

By Ryan O’Connor Staff Writer After three years as head of the Bow School District, Superintendent Kathleen Holt will be leaving at the end of the school year. “I’m not leaving for any bad reasons,” Holt said. “It’s a great school district. The people here are great, the ...