Five years into the state’s education freedom account program, Republican lawmakers are expressing some interest in increasing oversight and clarity over how it operates. In an April letter to the State Board of Education, a bipartisan group of lawmakers called for the board to write more specific descriptions of which programs may receive EFA funding […]

It was an audit that alerted the Claremont School Board to a $5 million financial hole last August, kicking off an all-hands scramble to save the district from possible closure.  And it will be an audit that helps prevent Claremont — and every other New Hampshire public school administrative unit — from making those kinds […]