Education Across the States — New Hampshire
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New Hampshire education news, briefings, and deep dives from Education Across the States — the New Hampshire edition. Daily briefings, regulation walkthroughs, district profiles, and trend analysis for New Hampshire schools, educators, and families. New Hampshire page: https://educationacrossthestates.com/states/new-hampshire.html Subscribe to get every New Hampshire episode as it lands. Part of Education Across the States, covering education in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories. AI Generated
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- [NH] NH Education Daily — Special Deep Dive: Understanding School Evaluations, Part 1B — The WIAT-IV (Revised)
Part 1 of a new series on understanding school evaluations — second half of a two-part WIAT-IV special. Alex and Jordan continue: how WIAT-IV scores talk to cognitive testing (the ability-achievement conversation behind pattern-of-strengths-and-weaknesses), how the test looks across ages, handling…
- [NH] NH Education Daily — November 4, 2026: Two Governments in Concord
Governor Ayotte is re-elected on an Associated Press call while Democrats claim flipped majorities in the Legislature and Executive Council — what divided government does and does not change for New Hampshire schools, plus the November deadlines that did not move. Sources: Associated Press…
- [NH] NH Education Daily — November 5, 2026: The Cap Becomes a Budget
The day after Question 2, the school tax cap stops being a ballot question and becomes a fiscal year 2028 budget equation — the levy formula, the March inflation timing trap, what capped districts must calculate first, and the two state reports now four days overdue. Sources: - Cuts on the horizon…
- [NH] NH Education Daily — Special Deep Dive: Understanding School Evaluations, Part 1B — The WIAT-IV: Reading Results and Building IEPs (Revised), Part 2
Part 2 of 2 in the re-issued Part 1B special (published in two parts). Alex and Jordan walk through five worked hypothetical score profiles — Jayden, Maria, David, Lily, and Sofia — finding the pattern in each, translating it into IEP present levels, goals, specially designed instruction, and…
- [NH] NH Education Daily — Special Deep Dive: Understanding School Evaluations, Part 1B — The WIAT-IV: Reading Results and Building IEPs (Revised), Part 1
Part 1 of 2 in the re-issued Part 1B special (published in two parts). Part 2 of 3 in our WIAT-IV special. Alex and Jordan organize the subtests into composites, decode pattern analysis, bust the six most common score misinterpretations, and translate results into IEP present levels, measurable…
- [NH] IDEA, Section by Section — §1400: Short Title; Findings; Purposes (Revised)
IDEA, Section by Section — §1400: Short Title; Findings; Purposes. Alex and Jordan open the series with the one section of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that imposes no duties: section fourteen hundred of Title twenty, the law's name, findings, and purposes. They walk all…
- [NH] NH Education Daily — Special Deep Dive: Understanding School Evaluations, Part 1A — The WIAT-IV: What the Test Measures (Revised)
Part 1 of 3 in our WIAT-IV special (Understanding School Evaluations, Part 1). Alex and Jordan cover what the WIAT-IV achievement test is, why schools use it, and how to read the scores — standard scores, percentile ranks, confidence intervals — then walk through all twenty subtests: what each…
- [NH] NH Education Daily — Hot Off the Press: The Rulebook Is Being Rewritten — Ed 1100 and the December Hearings (Part 1, Revised v2)
Revised edition — tighter cut. New Hampshire is rewriting its entire special-education rulebook — all 29 parts of Ed 1100. Alex and Jordan unpack the five-phase timeline, the first proposals already moving, and what districts, teachers, and parents need to do before public hearings begin in…
- [NH] SAU Deep Dive — SAU 42 Nashua: The Enrollment Cliff and the November Vote (Revised)
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- [NH] NH Education Deep Dive — A Dollar a Thousand: The Education Tax New Hampshire Never Cut
In October 2021, Mark Manganiello, administrator of the NH Department of Education's Office of School Finance, explained the Statewide Education Property Tax (SWEPT) in a public webinar and previewed how it would change in 2023: the rate would fall to $1.00 per $1,000, the state would backfill…
- [NH] NH Education Daily — Special Deep Dive: The Placement Continuum Under Ed 1100 — What Each Setting Really Means in the Classroom
A deep dive on special education placements as defined by current NH Ed 1100 — every setting on the continuum, who decides placement, how each one plays out in a real classroom, and the pitfalls to avoid. Vote on future topics in our listener poll: https://strawpoll.com/xVg718Km6yr AI Generated
- [NH] NH Education Daily — SAU Exposé, Part 1 Follow-Up: What Happens After the Complaint?
A follow-up to the SAU 37 Manchester exposé. Alex and Jordan trace what happens after NHED orders corrective action — the evidence goes to Concord, a compliance officer reviews it, and the public trail ends there. Plus: the legislative audit of NHED's dispute-resolution system, and the Nashua…
- [NH] NH Education Daily — Hot Off the Press: The Rulebook Is Being Rewritten — Ed 1100 and the December Hearings (Part 3)
Part 3 of a 3-part in-depth briefing. Alex and Jordan cover what the Ed 1100 rewrite means for daily work — forms, timelines, responsibilities — and the full commenting playbook: the RSA 541-A sequence, how to write a comment that moves the needle, and what to watch through adoption. Vote on…
- [NH] NH Education Daily — SAU Exposé, Part 1: SAU 37 Manchester — Due Process Hearings, State Complaints, and Consent Orders
Part 1 of the SAU Exposé series. Alex and Jordan examine the published public record for New Hampshire's largest SAU — due process hearing decisions, state complaint findings, and consent orders — what the documents actually say, what they don't show, and what they mean. Vote on future topics in…
- [NH] NH Education Daily — Choosing a Special Education Advocate, Part 1: What to Look For Before You Engage One
Part 1 of a series for families considering a special education advocate in New Hampshire. Alex and Jordan lay out what advocates do and don't do, the advocate-vs-attorney boundary, the qualifications and experience to look for, questions to ask, red flags, and NH resources — general information…
- [NH] NH Education Deep Dive — Who's Teaching Special Ed? NH's Staffing Shortage
The NH Fiscal Policy Institute's new report projects 1,114 teacher openings a year through 2034, with staffing down 5.7%, the pipeline halved, and teachers earning a third less than comparable professionals. Alex and Jordan unpack what it means for special education — endorsement barriers, the…
- [NH] NH Education Daily — Hot Off the Press: The Ballot Decisions That Will Reshape NH School Districts
A one-hour breaking special, October 13, 2026: Three weeks before November 3, every NH voter faces Question 2 — the HB 1300 school tax cap. Alex and Jordan unpack what the ballot says vs. what RSA 32:5-i actually does, Londonderry's warning of million in cuts, district-by-district impacts from…
- [New Hampshire] Special — Yes in Every Ward: Nashua Voted to Cap School Taxes and Still Couldn't
On November 3, 2026, Nashua voters said yes to a school tax cap in all nine wards — 17,622 yes to 12,454 no — and the cap failed anyway, 424 votes short of the 60% threshold New Hampshire law requires. With no cap, the district's costs keep climbing toward a fiscal cliff, and its chosen answer is…
- [NH] NH Education Deep Dive — The Morning After: Question 2's Split Verdict
Unofficial November 3, 2026 Question 2 results, district by district: Hampton, Winnacunnet, Rochester, and Fall Mountain (by about eight votes) adopted the school tax cap, while Londonderry and five Seacoast districts won yes majorities and failed the sixty percent bar — and what the cap means for…
- [NH] Nashua School Board Watch — Board of Education Meeting, October 28, 2026: Vehicles Approved 8-0 and $601,545 in Special Education Contracts Pass
The full Nashua Board of Education met Wednesday, October 28, 2026 and approved the Finance & Operations recommendations: four CERF vehicle purchases totaling $271,610.07 (one-ton dump truck $92,735; F-250 pickup $77,127; Maverick pickup $36,605; field tractor $65,143.07) on the night's only…
- [NH] NH Education Daily — November 3, 2026: Election Day, and Two Reports Still Missing
Election Day in New Hampshire: Question Two is decided district by district, not statewide — one ballot counts in your local and cooperative districts at once, adoption takes sixty percent of the combined yes and no votes with blanks excluded, and the current inflation index is four point two…
- What Remains Unanswered: The Tax-Cap Vote, and Nashua's Facilities Decision
Tomorrow, every New Hampshire voter decides Question Two — and the honest headline is how much remains unanswered: a ballot sentence still in dispute, an inflation term the question never defines, and no official district-by-district accounting of what the school tax cap would cost. Then we go…
- [NH] NH Education Daily — November 2, 2026: Where the Money Moved
Part two of a two-part look at New Hampshire adequate education aid: where the money moved in fiscal year 2026 — 145 municipalities received less as Hold Harmless Grants phase out, Education Freedom Accounts grew to 10,510 students and 51.6 million dollars alongside the same grant structure, and…
- [NH] NH Education Daily — November 1, 2026: How Adequacy Aid Actually Works
Part one of a two-part look at New Hampshire adequate education aid: how the formula counts resident students, applies base and differentiated aid, subtracts the Statewide Education Property Tax, and adds targeted grants — plus a due-date check on the annual restraint and seclusion report…
- [NH] NH Education Daily — October 31, 2026: The Report Due Tomorrow
Tomorrow, November 1, is the statutory deadline for New Hampshire's annual restraint and seclusion report — what the law requires it to show, how to read it, and the district paperwork that feeds it, plus the Attorney General's ballot-counting guidance for Tuesday's Question 2 vote and a seventy…
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