Woodstock Union High School in August 2025. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
This story by Molly Hughes was first published in the Valley News on Aug. 24, 2026.
Nine months after leaving a New Hampshire school district in the middle of a $5 million budget crisis, Mary Henry has a new job, a new state and a new administration standing firmly behind her.
Henry says she inherited the Claremont financial crisis, not caused it — and that she became the scapegoat for a problem she was brought in to fix.
Board members learned in August 2025 that Claremont’s SAU #6 was facing a multimillion-dollar deficit. Weeks later, the district placed Henry on unpaid suspension over what the interim superintendent at the time described only as “additional concerns” about her performance. Henry left in November after she and the district negotiated a separation agreement rather…
