The Claremont School District misused federal grant money for years, using the funds to pay people it later could not identify during a New Hampshire Department of Education review, among other financial red flags.

NHJournal obtained several state compliance letters revealing the disarray inside the SAU 6 business offices that led to the state withholding all federal grant funding for most of 2024. While the issues that halted the money were supposedly corrected in October of last year, a blistering 59-page compliance letter sent to suspended Superintendent Chris Pratt in July cited a host of old and new federal grant violations.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grant funding pass through the state Department of Education to local school districts every year, with the state res

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