Sarah Gibson

Jul 31, 2024 | ctpublic.org | Sarah Gibson

Melissa Johnston used to send her four kids to neighborhood public schools in Manchester. But they weren’t a good fit. She says one of her sons got suspended in second grade for stealing his teacher's gum. All of her kids have ADHD and struggled to focus. So she went looking for another option. She started by searching online for “alternatives to traditional public schools.”“That was my first introduction to charter schools,” she remembers.

Jul 31, 2024 | mainepublic.org | Sarah Gibson

Melissa Johnston used to send her four kids to neighborhood public schools in Manchester. But they weren’t a good fit. She says one of her sons got suspended in second grade for stealing his teacher's gum. All of her kids have ADHD and struggled to focus. So she went looking for another option. She started by searching online for “alternatives to traditional public schools.”“That was my first introduction to charter schools,” she remembers.

Jul 29, 2024 | nhpr.org | Sarah Gibson

Melissa Johnston used to send her four kids to neighborhood public schools in Manchester. But they weren’t a good fit. She says one of her sons got suspended in second grade for stealing his teacher's gum. All of her kids have ADHD and struggled to focus. So she went looking for another option. She started by searching online for “alternatives to traditional public schools.”“That was my first introduction to charter schools,” she remembers.

Jul 17, 2024 | nhpr.org | Sarah Gibson

Students at a high school aviation program in North Conway are getting the chance to rebuild a defunct plane — and put it back in the air. The Mount Washington Valley Career and Technical Center in North Conway, New Hampshire and the Eastern Slope Aviation Academy in Fryeburg, Maine have received a $500,000 federal grant to fund the project.

Jul 8, 2024 | nhpr.org | Sarah Gibson

Brittany McGuire got the idea from her 8-year-old son. He struggled to read and sometimes refused to do his reading homework. But he loved comic books. McGuire, a fourth grade teacher at Governor Wentworth Regional School District, turned to her colleague Jackie Benson, a reading specialist. The two started looking for comic book series that taught phonics, but they came up empty. “We kind of looked at each other and said, ‘Well, we have the training and know how,’ ” McGuire recalled.