Category Archives: Current Events
School District Budget Information
The proposed budget and revenue for the 2021-2022 school year are linked below.
Annual Report
The Annual Report of the Pittsfield School District for the 2018-2019 school year is attached below.
School Board Meetings
The Pittsfield School Board meets on the first and third Thursday of each month in the PMHS lecture hall. All meetings start at 5:30 p.m.
Understanding Bullying
Pittsfield School Board Policy JICK defines bullying consistently with state law as follows:
Bullying is hereby defined as a single significant incident or a pattern of incidents involving a written, verbal, or electronic communication, or a physical act or gesture, or any combination thereof, directed at another pupil which:
- Physically harms a pupil or damages the pupil’s property,
- Causes emotional distress to a pupil,
- Interferes with a pupil’s educational opportunities,
- Creates a hostile educational environment, or
- Substantially disrupts the orderly operation of the school.
Bullying shall also include actions motivated by an imbalance of power based on a pupil’s actual or perceived personal characteristics, behaviors, or beliefs, or motivated by the pupil’s association with another person and based on the other person’s characteristics, behaviors, or beliefs.
The University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension’s Understanding Bullying (https://extension.unh.edu/resources/files/Resource001364_Rep1823.pdf) provides us with very helpful information and suggestions on addressing bullying among our children.
LD Awareness Month
On October 26th, join us for hor d’oeuvres and drinks from 5pm to 7pm at The Foundry in Manchester, NH. We will have a short program at 6pm to highlight some of the amazing efforts in LD Awareness here in the Granite State. Please rsvp at this link. More details are in the invitation below.
Education Funding in New Hampshire
Thanks to the many Pittsfield taxpayers who joined the recent meeting on Education Funding in New Hampshire. We were joined by many concerned taxpayers from across our state as we learned about the inequities in the state’s funding scheme and the failure of the legislature to address the issue in an equitable manner as required by the New Hampshire Supreme Court.