Oct 14, 2015
The New Hampshire State Dept. of Education is now tracking your child’s BEHAVIORS: Do they get along with others? That is SUBJECTIVE Are they ATTENTIVE in class? That is SUBJECTIVE Are they going to class “motivated to learn”? That is SUBJECTIVE...
Oct 14, 2015
We continue to question the over-reach by the New Hampshire Dept. of Education as the Commissioner seems to believe the Superintendents work for her and not the local communities that pay their salaries. The preliminary Smarter Balanced scores were recently released...
Oct 11, 2015
A CALL TO ACTION: URGENT Send the following message to ALL of our State Reps. and Senators ASAP: The NH Department of ED is REFUSING to release the Smarter Balanced Assessment scores!!! While other states have released the preliminary scores, NH is REFUSING to release...
Oct 9, 2015
Have parents in NH been cut out of their local schools? When voters overwhelmingly support a warrant article, directing their local school district, why do they have to continue the fight? That’s what the Federal education reforms are doing to our schools....
Sep 24, 2015
CALL TO ACTION: Please E-MAIL Rep. Judith Spang the following article Her e-mail address is: judith@kestrelnet.net Rep. Spang (D-Durham) continues to deny that standardized test scores will be used to evaluate teachers. As you can see from this article, there is...
Sep 22, 2015
NH residents need to start asking themselves, when did they give up local control to the Commissioner of Education, Virginia Barry? Has our State Commissioner of Education overstepped her boundaries AGAIN? Who pays the Superintendents? Who hires and fires the...
Sep 10, 2015
We URGE you to refuse to cooperate in further testing days or testing time for SBAC tests UNTIL the SBAC sends back useful information to all parents, teachers and schools based on the 2015 assessment. Then schools, teachers and parents will jointly decide if the...
Sep 10, 2015
We received a copy of this letter from a parent to her school administrators. She gave us permission to post this however we felt it was best to remove the names of the parents and their child. The purpose of posting this is to give parents guidance on how to address...
Sep 10, 2015
On September 9th, 2015, the Manchester Education Association hosted a forum for candidates running for Mayor in Manchester. Mayor Gatsas was unable to attend due to a prior commitment. The candidates who did attend were asked questions on education, drug addiction,...
Sep 7, 2015
Governor Hassan’s Dept. of Ed is proving to be a disaster. Let’s take the Smarter Balanced Assessment debacle as an example. Before the assessment was administered, the NH DoE was looking for an alternative. That’s right, they signed on to a flawed...
