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Stratham board upholds nonresident-student policy, denies staff request to tuition in child

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Summary

The Stratham School District board voted 3-0 to uphold policy JFAB and deny a PE teacher's request to enroll her daughter as a tuition student, citing local tax impact, state law uncertainty about open enrollment and precedent concerns.

At its final meeting of the school year, the Stratham School District school board voted 3-0 to uphold policy JFAB and decline a staff request to enroll a teacher's child as a tuition (nonresident) student.

The teacher, Tiffany Locke, a physical-education instructor at Stratham Memorial School, asked the board to allow her daughter to attend SMS as a tuition student starting in August. "I'm requesting the board's consideration in allowing my daughter to attend SMS as a tuition student," Locke told the board during public comment. The request required the board to consider whether to allow an out-of-district staff-member placement outside the conditions listed in JFAB.

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