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The New Hampshire Department of Education announced an innovative partnership today with Chess in Schools (CIS) to establish a statewide chess in schools initiative. The program is funded using federal Title funds.
CONCORD, NH – The New Hampshire Department of Education announced today the first four School District Recovering Bright Futures Learning
The commissioner of the state Department of Education does not believe it will need all the special education money for school districts the House included in its budget.
The New Hampshire Department of Education has completed a comprehensive review of its Career and Technical Education programs with the goal of making these programs more accessible to students. The report titled “Increasing Equitable Access to Career and Technical Education” provides in-depth research on the Department’s efforts to identify barriers regarding access to career and technical education (CTE), and to determine potential strategies to address these barriers.
The New Hampshire Department of Education on Friday released school allocations from the $156 million in federal education funds from the U.S. Department of Education. Manchesterś total federal allocation was $37,007,295.
New Hampshire schools are slated to receive an additional $156,065,807 in Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Funds (ESSER II) through the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021, Public Law 116-260, which provides an additional $54.3 billion for an ESSER II Fund.
Schools wishing to take advantage of this waiver must apply to the New Hampshire Department of Education.
Danielle Boutin, an ELL teacher at Nashua’s Ledge Street School, has been named as the 2021 New Hampshire Teacher of the Year. The Department of Education honored this year’s finalists at a ceremony on the State House Lawn in Concord.
The funds represent the first round of a $46 million federal grant aimed at expanding New Hampshire’s successful public charter school system. Five public charter schools approved by the State Board of Education could be eligible for funds up to $1.5 million each, including two in Manchester.
