SAU 16 Superintendent David Ryan said during the meeting he was accepting Wons resignation “with great sadness.” Patty has served well in this role for the last five years and led CMS s growth efforts in several areas including her leadership in enhancing facilities to create a much more effective learning environment,” Ryan said.
Ryan said Wons also led efforts to heighten awareness of critical issues around diversity, inclusion, equity and social justice and increasing student choice and options from a curriculum standpoint. She has been a true champion for children and has always led from a student-centered framework,” Ryan said. “We wish her the very best in her future endeavors.
SAU 16 Superintendent David Ryan is recommending the Exeter area school district stick to its plan for reopening its largest schools May 3. He is seeking to request a waiver rather than meet Gov. Chris Sununu s mandate to begin full-time in-person learning April 19.
The waiver request to the New Hampshire Department of Education would be for Exeter High School and Cooperative Middle School as well its largest elementary schools: Stratham Memorial School and Lincoln Street and Main Street schools in Exeter. These schools are currently operating during the coronavirus pandemic with half the students attending school in person on alternating days.
Ryan wrote he is recommending the district s Exeter Region Cooperative School Board, Exeter School Board, Stratham School Board and the Brentwood School Board submit the waiver request.
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Voters across New Hampshire are choosing school board members today, and in some towns the election has come down to one issue: school reopening.
That’s the case for many residents in SAU 16, which serves Exeter, Brentwood, Kensington, East Kingston, Newfields, and Stratham.
Board chair Helen Joyce, of Stratham, says this is the first time in nine years that someone has run against her. Other historically easy races now have multiple candidates, she says.
“This election is totally different,” she says. “The No. 1 issue on everyone s minds who have children in the system is: Will you bring my child back full time, or won t you?
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EXETER Several area parents have started an online petition calling on the SAU 16 administration to “commit to an action plan” to bring back middle and high school students to in-person learning full-time.
Parents Melissa Hanlon and Susan Shanelaris along with other SAU 16 parents have circulated the Change.org petition that quickly garnered more than 500 signatures.
The petition calls on the administration and the Exeter Region Cooperative School Board to commit to following the state of New Hampshire’s guidelines for reopening schools, as opposed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It also calls on SAU 16 to commit to allowing for 3 feet of indoor social distancing, instead of the CDC recommended 6 feet.