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Frank Edelblut pledged to stay “nonpartisan.” But as head of New Hampshire’s education department, he’s used his platform to pursue conservative grievances against the education system and individual educators.
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Commissioner Frank Edelblut seized upon the controversy as a symbol of public schools gone awry — part of a larger battle his department has been waging for years.
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The education department says that the data is held by a private contractor, not the state, and thus can’t be turned over to be audited.
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New Hampshire lawmakers this year have debated bills that include free speech, so-called "divisive concepts," and book removal policies.
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The Department of Education says it has relied on computer-assisted scoring to grade statewide writing assessments for at least the last five years.
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Out of all AP test takers in New Hampshire’s class of 2023, around 71% got at least a 3. The tests are scored on a scale of 1 to 5, and 3 or higher is generally considered a passing grade.
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The Dartmouth men's basketball team voted 13-2 to join SEIU Local 560, making it the first unionized college sports team in the country. Dartmouth believes the election should not have gone forward.
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The vote remains on track to happen as scheduled, after a National Labor Relations Board official rejected the school’s request to reopen the case.
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UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow was fired after it became known that he had produced and appeared in pornographic videos.
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Early childhood education specialists are providing in-classroom training for teachers to align their class with the latest research — and state mandates — on play-based learning.
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Among other demands, they want administrators to offer more support to Palestinian students amid the ongoing war in Gaza.
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The financial aid decisions that usually go out with acceptance letters are being delayed because of a later-than-expected rollout of a revised Free Application for Federal Student Aid, the form commonly known as FAFSA that schools use to compute financial aid.