Posts by Jeremy Margolis
One night last week, Terese Bastarache — the conservative activist who led the successful campaign last year to reduce Merrimack Valley’s school budget — went live with a new plan.
The House’s Republican leadership could slow down an attempt by the Senate to fast-track a universal open enrollment bill.
As state lawmakers race to pass a new law mandating open enrollment among public schools, local school district leaders are engaged in a counter-effort to adopt policies that block students from leaving the district under the state’s current open enrollment law.
Days after Republican Rep. Kristin Noble expressed public support for segregating schools by political party, the superintendent of schools in the town she represents delivered a forceful rebuke of her vision for education.
Despite the universal eligibility, just 343 students left public schools to participate in the EFA program – a fraction of one percent of the 163,000 enrolled in public schools last year.