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Skilled Trades Shortage Reaches Critical Point in Upper Valley
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (1851+ words) Author Sofia Langlois, Valley News Esther Wilmot, 18, of Plainfield, left, and Paige Stone, 18, of Barnard, right, build cabinet doors on site at a home being built by the Hartford Area Career and Technology Center's building trades program in Wilder, Vt....
Republicans Advance New Version of Open Enrollment, Minus the Tuition Costs
2+ week, 5+ day ago (698+ words) Author Ethan De Witt, NH Bulletin After months of fits and starts, New Hampshire Republicans are attempting a new approach to create "universal open enrollment" in the state's public schools. The proposal would still allow parents to send their children…...
River Valley Community College President to Retire this Summer
3+ week, 4+ day ago (243+ words) Author Business NH Magazine Staff Report Alfred Williams, president of River Valley Community College (RVCC), has announced that he will retire in July. Williams has served as president of the college since 2018. RVCC serves more than 1, 000 students annually between the…...
USNH Trustees Extends Dual Role of President at Keene State College and Plymouth State University
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (66+ words) Business NH Magazine USNH Trustees Extends Dual Role of President at Keene State College and Plymouth State University Author Business NH Magazine Staff Report Additional Stories You Might Be Interested In Great Bay Community College Opens New Welding Technologies Facility…...
Changes Planned Amid Falling Enrollment at Keene State College
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (890+ words) Author Rick Green, Keene Sentinel Keene State College Interim President Donald Birx says the institution plans a reorganization, marketing redesign and other steps to address years of declining enrollment and operating losses that have forced staff cutbacks. He recently made…...
We're Excited': Three Western NH Early Education Programs Talk Plans for Federal Funding
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1324+ words) Author Maya Mitchell, NH Bulletin Monroe-Cassel grew up in upstate New York, where she saw her childhood church fall into disrepair when the community could not find a way to keep the doors open. When The Well Collaborative, a nonprofit…...
Great Bay Community College Opens New Welding Technologies Facility
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (272+ words) Author Business NH Magazine staff report In March, students enrolled in the'Welding Technologies certificate program at Great Bay Community College (GBCC) in Portsmouth were welcomed into the new 3, 500- square-foot welding lab at the college's Pease Tradeport campus in Portsmouth.' "We…...
Newly Renovated Merrimack YMCA Child Care Center Brings Officials for a Visit
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (407+ words) Author Maya Mitchell, NH Bulletin Renovations to the largest child care center in New Hampshire have caught the attention of local and national officials." The Merrimack YMCA Early Education Center, a branch of the YMCA of Greater Nashua, hosted U. S. Sen....
State to Ask Supreme Court to Overturn Claremont School Funding Rulings
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (657+ words) Author Ethan De Witt, NH Bulletin The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office plans to ask the state Supreme Court to overturn its two landmark Claremont school funding rulings from the 1990s, arguing they are an improper reading of the state constitution....
Open Enrollment: School Choice or a 'Wrecking Ball' for NH? Here's What You Need to Know.
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1624+ words) Author Annmarie Timmins, NH Public Radio Robert Topik of Epsom asked the first question when voters at Epsom's school district deliberative session took up open enrollment, controversial and complicated Republican-backed legislation that would allow students to attend any school in…...