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Credit Sarah Gibson for NHPR Some school districts say they need more time to fully reopen than they have under the April 19 deadline Gov. Chris Sununu has set. They point to teacher vaccination timelines, understaffing, and inability to social distance on buses and in some classrooms as the major hurtles to a full return. After Sununu’s executive order, the Monadnock Regional School District school board voted to stick with their original plan to reopen fully on May 3. In a letter to Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut, the board chairman wrote: “We cannot in good conscience place our ...

Listen to the interview here. Sarah Gibson: So what do you make of the governor's, essentially [it's a] mandate, for schools to fully reopen? Are you prepared to do so? Robert Malay: I think it's going to be incredibly challenging to overcome some of the logistical obstacles ahead of us. But I am very confident with the staff that we have that whatever the obstacle is, we'll be able to overcome it. The additional time for us to make sure our staff were through that vaccination period would have been incredibly helpful on that end. But it would also have been incredibly helpful in terms of mak...

New Hampshire Schools Confront Student Broadband Issues In a survey conducted this summer by the N.H. Department of Education, 32 percent of parents in Keene, H.H., and several other municipalities, said technical issues disrupt their child's remote instruction at times. by Caleb Symons, The Keene Sentinel / December 14, 2020 Shutterstock/Sue Tansirimas Faulkner Elementary School in  Stoddard, where Bridges teaches 4th and 5th grade, transitioned to fully remote learning in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That meant battling ...

Copy URL In one of the most frightening winters in recent memory, when coronavirus is killing thousands, and millions of children are barred from their classrooms, struggling for enough internet to learn, Campbell’s Soup made a decision. It would fight, in its cozy way, for kids’ right to take a day off. But the iconic food company’s “Save the Snow Day” campaign, launched this month, isn’t finding a universally warm-and-fuzzy reception with its intended audiences: parents, and the K-12 leaders who make snow-day decisions. “Staying home behind a bowl of soup with your kids, t...

The Keene High School building is closed today after someone within the school community tested positive for COVID-19. According to a Thursday letter sent to KHS families by Principal Cindy Gallagher and SAU 29 Superintendent Robert Malay, the individual who tested positive had been in the building less than 48 hours before the letter was sent. The school has reached out to people who have had close contact with that individual — defined as being within 6 feet of the person who tested positive for 10 or more consecutive minutes. The school “will work with [the N.H. Department of Hea...