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After up and down year, schools plan to reopen with few restrictions and an eye on youngest students >Abbot-Downing School students rush out of class during ealry release on Monday morning at 11:30 a.m. on June 7, 2021. GEOFF FORESTER
Published: 7/7/2021 5:02:14 PM
The Concord School District is preparing to return with full in-person learning in September, with relaxed mask rules and a team of new staff members to address learning gaps amassed during the pandemic year.
The fall reopening plan, presented to the Concord School Board by interim Superintendent Kathleen Murphy Tuesday night, was developed based on COVID-19 transmission numbers for Concord and Merrimack County that are currently available, and also on survey responses from staff members, students and parents, the majority of whom indicated a preference for in-person learning.
Concord’s school budget proposed to increase by $2.7 million
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Published: 2/24/2021 4:24:18 PM
The Concord School District has proposed a $90 million budget for 2021-2022, following a year of unexpected changes and new costs in technology and maintenance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The proposed operating budget is $90,439,332, a 3% increase over the 2020-2021 budget of $87,702,296. If approved as is, the operating budget would increase taxes by about $70 a year on a home worth $250,000, according to Business Administrator Jack Dunn, who gave the Concord School Board an initial overview of the proposed budget earlier this month.
“We took a conservative approach on it, given the environment right now, given the climate, given the concerns in the city,” interim Superintendent Kathleen Murphy told the board. “We felt that would be the best route for us to go. But I think there’s still some room in this budget to look at it a littl
Modified: 1/1/2021 3:43:09 PM
School nurse Erin Stewart drove her car into the old Sears auto garage at the Steeplegate Mall where members of the National Guard stood ready to giver her one of the state’s first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
Stewart, who works at Rundlett Middle School in Concord, was vaccinated as part of New Hampshire’s Phase 1 vaccine rollout, that prioritizes health care workers.
The process on Wednesday morning was smooth, Stewart said, with no waiting in line. The National Guard attendants who were running the process checked her in and asked a host health questions. A master sergeant in the Air National Guard administered the vaccine.
School superintendents test positive for COVID
Graduating senior Richard Demmons receives his diploma during Franklin High School graduation on Friday evening, June 12, 2020. ANN GEHAN
By Staff and Wire reports
Published: 12/11/2020 3:18:09 PM
Franklin schools are in remote learning this week, after the district superintendent tested positive for COVID-19.
Superintendent Dan LeGallo announced his own positive case in a letter to the school community on Tuesday. LeGallo wrote that he took a COVID test on Saturday evening, after experiencing a minor sore throat.
“The contact tracing will take some time because of my presence in all three schools, and will lead to a short-term closure of the SAU,” LeGallo wrote.