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Concord School District sees spike in CRTC applications, drop in AP course enrollment
Published: 3/14/2021 2:09:43 PM
The number of students at Concord High School at the Concord Regional Technical Center is on track to increase next year, but the numbers show fewer students are planning to take advanced classes, following a difficult year for academic learning.
In a Concord School Board meeting Wednesday, Concord High School principal Mike Reardon and Concord Regional Technical Center (CRTC) director Steve Rothenberg presented enrollment data to the board.
District data projects there will be 1,530 students enrolled at Concord High in the 2021-2022 school year, an increase of 19 students from this school year, with 1,511 students. Some of that is due to an influx of first-years entering from the middle school, but it’s also because some students may not leave.
Tech programs help high schoolers prepare for jobs
Published: 2/1/2021 8:05:27 AM
Today’s job market demands a better-educated workforce than ever before, and jobs in this new economy require more complex knowledge and skills than jobs of the past. So if students want to be prepared for success after high school, they’re going to have to find a way to gain a competitive edge.
That has been the mantra of New Hampshire government, business and education officials over the last decade, and is the momentum behind the state’s Career Readiness Drive for 65 legislation (passed in 2019), which, in part, requires New Hampshire’s high schools to assess student career interest and place them on a pathway to a career credential (which could range from a diesel certificate to an medicine degree). New Hampshire has an economic competitiveness goal that 65% of our working-age population has a workforce-valued credential by 2025.
Girl has steel bar behind sternum to reshape her sunken chest
With the fix, Mackenzie Kurko is breathing easier.
“Hey Mackenzie, how are you doing?” asked Dr. Steve Rothenberg during a recent checkup.
She told him she has no pain when she lifts her arms and no trouble breathing. Her mother, Jessica Ketterhagen, says she is pretty much 100%.
Just 3 months ago, Mackenzie was in Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children (RMHC) for surgery to fix what’s called pectus excavatum, funnel chest. Some ribs and her sternum grew abnormally.
Mackenzie told CBS4 Health Specialist Kathy Walsh her chest was so sunken her mother used to say,” You could fit a whole tennis ball in there.”
Data shows moderate enrollment decline at Concord Schools this year
Concord School District Building Courtesy
Published: 12/20/2020 7:02:30 PM
This school year, Concord families have had to make tough decisions when choosing a learning model for their students that accommodates both student needs and parent work schedules. For some families, the option that worked best was to leave the public school district entirely.
The data reflects those decisions – a newly-released enrollment report shows a decline in enrollment for the Concord School District during this pandemic year.
Members of the Concord School board reviewed the district’s 2020 annual enrollment report at a joint meeting of the Concord School Board’s instructional and finance committees Wednesday night. The report shows the district lost 168 students at the elementary level, 44 from the middle school and about 70 from the Concord Regional Technical Center.