By Dan O’BrienFed up with a lack of communication and funding issues with Manchester public schools, the Hooksett School Board has sent a scathing letter to the mayor of Manchester and is talking about building a new high school here. Hooksett has a 20-year tuition agreement to send its public high school students to Manchester and has had ...

By MATT SCHOOLEYCity school officials are drafting a pay-to-participate policy that would include athletics, a policy that many say would have negative consequences at all three city high schools, but particularly bad at West High School. Facing a budget crisis that could lead to layoffs in the city, Manchester school officials discussed the ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAfter months of toiling over the Manchester school budget, it’s almost time for the Board of Aldermen to settle on an amount. The Board of Aldermen had to make a decision on the city budget, which includes the mayor’s proposal for a $140 million school district budget for 2008- 09, by Tuesday, June 10. As of June 3, ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAdministrators at West High School have announced a plan they will bring before the city’s School Board to establish a series of academies at the high school. About a third of Hooksett high school students currently attend West. The preliminary plans, which will go before the School Board sometime in February, would start ...

BY JENNIFER MCDOWELL After an 8-5  Manchester School Board vote on Monday, Aug. 13, Mary Ellen McGorry, the assistant principal at West High School, was promoted to the position of the school’s interim principal for the 2007-08 school year. McGorry replaces former principal Janice Thompson, who retired from the Manchester school ...