Common Core And The Candidates Running For Office In New Hampshire
Many candidates running for state and local offices are realizing that Common Core is an issue...
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Common Core Testing In NH: Another Set Up For Failure
The Washington Post published an article: States Reconsider Common Core Tests. Here is...
Read MoreCommon Core: Race for Federal Money, not Higher Standards
(Hour 3c) Ann Marie Banfield of Cornerstone Policy Research joined us to talk Common Core. School teachers and their unions are starting to push back against the “abusive” standards. A battle is brewing in Nashua...
Read MoreNashua Teachers, Cornerstone Blast Smarter Balanced Assessment
In an unusual occurrence, both a major teacher’s union and Cornerstone Policy Research, a conservative, non-partisan issues advocacy organization, have opposed the implementation of the Smarter Balanced Assessment, the...
Read MoreParents Hammer Common Core in Testimony on HB 1508
Girard at Large received several emails from parents who wanted to share their testimony on NH House bill 1508 , which was heard a second time on Thursday, February 20, 2014. We received reports that the hearing started a half...
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Shocking Arrogance of Commissioner Barry, Superintendent Littlefield
(Hour 2a, b) The arrogance exhibited by Educrats Virginia Barry, Commissioner of NH Dept. of...
Read More2nd Annual Manchester Person of the Year Award
(Hour 2a, 3c) Manchester Police Officer Dan Doherty won last year, and we’re taking YOUR nominations for the 2nd Annual Manchester Person of the Year Award. Actually, it’s technically “Person, Place or...
Read MoreOn Air News Read for November 5, 2013
It’s Election Day in the city of Manchester as voters go to the polls to determine who will be their next mayor, welfare commissioner, alderman, school board member and a plethora of ward office holders that govern the...
Read MoreOn Air News Read for November 4, 2013
Manchester Alderman Joe Kelly Levasseur is at it again. As listeners of this show know, Levasseur has been at the epicenter of the dog park controversy dogging Ward 10 Alderman Phil Greazzo. In pursuit of information he used...
Read MoreOn Air News Read for October 10, 2013
A non meeting meeting of the non school board school board will take place in Manchester School District headquarters (correct from this morning’s read). Yes, that’s really happening as an alternate school board...
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