Derry elementary students will have another chance to brush up on their academic skills – and have fun – as the Derry Cooperative School District prepares for its 2014 Title I camps. Cara Kuehl, Title I coordinator, reported on last…
The Strategic Plan for the Derry Cooperative School District is working on every level, in every school. Superintendent Laura Nelson gave a quarterly update on the plan at the March 25 School Board meeting. Nelson said the Strategic Plan called…
Pinkerton Academy is finishing strong. The semi-private school, the high school of record for Derry, Chester, Hampstead and Auburn, received its scores for the last-ever New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP) tests last week. While the school is holding its…
The Derry Cooperative School District had a mixed bag of results on its final fall NECAP (New England Common Assessment Program) test. The district showed some percentages slightly above the state average and some slightly below. Though it’s the last…
Pinkerton Academy is ramping up the way it teaches math, with an eye to helping each student have the math skills they need to survive in the modern world, whether it’s balancing a checkbook or traveling to another planet.
Marcel Labonville of Hooksett liked what he saw of Pinkerton Academy. He had one request: “I’d like it more,” he said, “if they moved it 20 miles closer.” Labonville and about 100 other Hooksett parents found a lot to like…
While the Derry Cooperative School District’s 2014-15 working budget is coming in $1 million lower than the current approved budget, administrators warned this week that a drop in state adequacy funding could affect the final number.
Chris Harper, academic dean for Pinkerton Academy, stood before a roomful of parents, teachers and Derry School Board members and district administrators. “The rigor,” he said, “is in the relationships.”
The tentative working budget for the Derry Cooperative School District for 2014-15 saw a drop of $649,890 from last year’s approved budget, due to a reduction in health and dental increases. School Administrative Unit (SAU 10) Business Administrator Jane Simard…
The Derry Cooperative School District is proceeding with its Strategic Plan and with specific action items for each segment of the school population. Superintendent Laura Nelson presented the latest iteration of the plan in a quarterly report at the Oct.…
