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MACDONALD: What Are East Kingston and Kensington Hiding?

April 19, 2026April 19, 2026 Steve MacDonald

I’m not sure what the East-Kingston and Kenisington School Boards want to keep hidden so badly, but they are spending a lot of tax dollars on legal fees to keep it that way. Taxpayers proposed a warrant article to create a non-taxpayer-funded committee to explore ways to save taxpayers’ money. The school budget is out … Read more

UNDERWOOD: Elected School Board Members Must Be Free to Speak

April 17, 2026April 17, 2026 Jody Underwood

School board members in New Hampshire are elected to represent their communities. They are not appointed advisors, and they are not public relations assistants for the administration. They are elected officials entrusted by voters to ask questions, raise concerns, and communicate with the public about the operation of their schools. Recent statements by Rochester School … Read more

MACDONALD: Another NHSBA “Policy” Suppresses Free Speech

April 14, 2026 Steve MacDonald

The New Hampshire School Boards Association (NHSBA), the notorious creator of numerous combative and corrosive anti-parent policies often adopted by school districts across New Hampshire, recently held a presentation. To summarize, it is the board’s position (not so much policy) that school board members abrogate their First Amendment Rights so that parents and taxpayers don’t … Read more

CORNERSTONE: Is Your School District Violating the Students First Act?

March 9, 2026 Cornerstone Action

The Students First Act states that, seven days before the voters adopt a school budget, districts must post line graphs showing 10-year changes in their cost-per-pupil, average teacher pay, and administrator salaries. These graphs “must be posted in at least 3 appropriate places, 2 of which must be places of business or other public locations.” The … Read more

TYSON: Introducing CSBTP V1: A Source-Grounded Research Assistant for School Board Transparency

February 4, 2026 Kevin P. Tyson

I am introducing CSBTP V1, the first version of the Claremont School Board Transparency Project research assistant. CSBTP V1 is built to make it easier to navigate board packets, minutes, policies, and related documents, and to connect local records with statewide context from NHDOE data. It is designed to help the public and stakeholders ask … Read more

Why Aren’t School Boards Besieged By Parents Over Flat Student Achievement But Rising Costs?

June 22, 2024 Skip

If an enterprising teacher looked at their District’s cost per student and then created their own micro-school with even 20 students, they’d be earning far more than at their static union wage ladder.

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Have the Easter Island Stone Faced Moa Statues (School Board Members) Started To Speak?

April 2, 2023 Skip

For years I’ve been using that phrase to describe most school boards both here in NH and around the nation. They run to be elected to represent us in managing the education systems in our local areas on our behalf but once seated, they deign not to speak to us again.

To The Dover School Board – The Public Pity Party about Personal Choices (Pornography)

March 26, 2023January 6, 2023 Op-Ed

The circus that ensued at the last SB meeting was ridiculous to watch the public pity party about personal choices that had little to do with people concerned about pornography in our schools and library.

Local School Boards Are Your Only Line of Defense Against the Blue Rot

January 2, 2023 Ed Mosca

So this is in response to a post, Promoted from the Comments – A Contrarian View on “Call for Candidates: Run for School Board!” One commentator argues … or at least seems to be arguing … that the proper focus is on school-choice because the political power to take over local school boards AND to then reform … Read more

Boston Schools Fulfill A Long Standing Admonition FOR US! – Stack of Stuff Part 27

November 21, 2022 Skip

When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” – sometimes attributed to Thomas Jefferson So, let’s get to it – once again as my collection of educational posts has been growing out of control. And in many cases, reformatted here and emphasis mine. So the Boston … Read more

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HB1137 – No, School Boards Are Not Just for Creating Policies and Budgets – They Own the Whole Dang Thing!

November 1, 2022 Skip

School Boards are responsible for all of it but many school board members just have no clue. I’m betting that 97% of them (or thereabouts) have never read the NH Statutes (RSAs) that the NH Legislature has passed that govern their responsibilities and actions.

And You Think That Govt School Are Being Straight with Parents? Not If They Are Being Trained Not To- East Coast Edition

February 21, 2022 Skip

From the mid-West back to the East Coast, here’s another School District telling Teachers to use a students’ chosen pronouns but NOT tell the Parents.

Tomorrow is the Day We Find Out How Many People Hate Parents – HB1431

January 24, 2022January 24, 2022 Skip

School boards all over the country were perfectly fine with defining many Parents as “Domestic Terrorists.” And by a 4-1 margin my school board agreed with that (only one spoke out when I asked “do you consider me to be a Domestic Terrorist?”).

“Preferred Pronouns or Prison” – The Totalitarianism Embedded in Transgenderism

January 4, 2022January 3, 2022 Skip

Do we have free speech or is Government already well down the road to coercing your speech?

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Texas School Board Has Parents Arrested in Their Own Homes for Dissenting against School Policies

January 1, 2022 Skip

At least the Gilford School Board hasn’t gone this far – yet. If so, my entire wardrobe would be made up of orange jumpsuits. Reformatted, emphasis mine: Armed Agents in Texas School District Arrest Concerned Parents in Their Own Homes

Quote of the Day – “When we complained about schools, they said ‘why don’t you get involved?’ … “

December 25, 2021December 25, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Sometimes when you are close to the topic or subject the obvious walks past you in a bright red dress and you fail to notice. Or maybe you do but you are distracted. I just read a comment and felt like that.

Hb1169 – So Elected Representative Masquerading as School Board Members Want to Continue to “Silence” Their Constituents?

November 19, 2021November 18, 2021 Skip

According to the National School Board Association, I’m a self-acknowledged Domestic Terrorist. Eighty percent of the Gilford School Board agreed with them (after all, the Left has taught us that Silence is Complicity, right?) when I asked if they thought I was one.

Brenda Sheridan Loudon County School Board Chair

Loudon County Virginia Parents File for Removal of School Board Chair

November 14, 2021November 14, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Loudon County Virginia Schools are about as #woke as they come, and that School board could care less how parents feel about that. But the School Board Chair’s time may be up. Parents have filed to have her removed.

Life with Liz – I will be co-hosting the show with Liz Gabert

November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 Skip

I haven’t sat behind a mic in quite some time so this ought to be fun! Normally I call in twice a month on Mondays but tomorrow I’ll be on for the show starting at 11 am. We just planned out my time with Liz and this is what we came up with (in no particular order):

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Contact Tracing Done Right: Parent Group Creates Database to Track “Equity” and “Diversity” Consultants

October 30, 2021 Steve MacDonald

The war on parents started long before they took notice. But having discovered the assault, they are pushing back, asking questions, filing RTKs, and pressing school boards. In response, they want parents tracked, so one group of parents has decided to track them.