June 30, 2009
Eagle Tribune
WINDHAM — Windham High School’s dean of math, science and technology has resigned — nearly two months before the new school is scheduled to open.
Mary Fries resigned from the dean’s post about two weeks ago, saying she wanted to focus on her doctoral studies at Boston University, SAU 28 Superintendent Frank Bass said.
June 16, 2009
Eagle Tribune
School districts hosting public kindergarten for the first time this September will soon see a wave of portable classrooms descend on their elementary school grounds.
Pelham, Salem and Windham have three-year leases — covered by state kindergarten aid — on standalone modular units.
Pelham and Windham will hold kindergarten classes in these modulars.
May 24, 2009
Eagle Tribune
WINDHAM — High-tech Windham High School is arts friendly, too.
Count Middle School eighth-graders Meagan Eccleston, Karissa Edelstein and Christopher Jones as fans of the 195,000-square-foot school, set to open this fall.
Karissa said the building is filled with light. Library walls are made of glass.
Christopher said each classroom and wing has its own look.
“It has a modern feel,” Meagan said.
April 13, 2009
Eagle Tribune
WINDHAM — Two local activists are brewing a bracing cup of discontent for tax day.
Windham homeowners Ted Maravelias, 40, and Corey Lewandowski, 35, say their noon taxpayer tea party on the Statehouse steps, like at least five other rallies elsewhere in New Hampshire on Wednesday, is drawing broad interest from average citizens.
February 19, 2009
Eagle Tribune
Limiting class size solves the problem
PLAISTOW — Many area kindergarten classrooms are 50 to 100 square feet smaller than the standard required by the state Department of Education.
But if schools avoid overcrowding by limiting the number of students to maintain 50 square feet of space per child, they’re OK. The kindergartens will receive state approval and not be penalized for failing to comply with the 1,000-square-foot requirement, according to Ed Murdough, administrator of the Bureau of School Approvals and Facility Management.