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Coverage involving education and schools.
With the number of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths on the rise, some lawmakers question the safety of continuing tours for elementary school children at the State House where there is no mask or vaccination mandate and no requirement to report the number of legislators and staffers who work there who have been infected.
Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington and other Democratic leaders called on Gov. Chris Sununu to demand the resignation of Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut for speaking Sunday “at an event of fringe right-wing extremists encouraging people to forgo public health guidance in our schools.
The New Hampshire Department of Education is pleased to announce that two New Hampshire schools have been awarded as 2021 National Blue Ribbon Schools. Grantham Village School in Grantham and Memorial Elementary School in Bedford were named to this coveted list of schools being recognized for their exemplary high performance in academics.
One week after InDepthNH.org exposed the state’s COVID-19 school dashboard as inaccurate, hard to find, and out of date, it was still on the Department of Health and Human Services’ website Monday with the same information as last week and some from last year.
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New Hampshire people are divided over President Biden’s plan to require large employers to ensure employees are vaccinated against COVID-19 or are tested weekly, according to a new UNH survey poll.
If you are a parent trying to figure out what’s going on with COVID-19 in New Hampshire schools on the state Department of Health and Human Services’s school dashboard, you are better off looking to your local district because the state’s school dashboard is tough to find, long out of date, and inaccurate once you get there, according to a review by InDepthNH.org and interviews with officials.
Amidst the COVID waste disposal shakeup, Lebanon logged their best revenue year for recycling in 2020, and by July of this year they’d already reached their recycling revenue estimates.
Terry Farish, InDepthNH reporter, and OD Bonny collaborated to write a picture book, A Feast for Joseph, just published by Groundwood Books in Toronto.