Participants
Everyone heard or addressed on the recording. Audience members are identified only as far as the recording identifies them; most gave a first name or none.
| Name | Role | Participation |
|---|
| Dr. Timothy Broadrick | Superintendent candidate (spelled Broderick by the district, the minutes and the Cablecast title) | Answers every question (0:03:28 to 1:18:40). Describes his background: vocational education, a teacher and administrator in a data-driven system, superintendent of the Alton and Barnstead districts (transcript: Alderman Bart's, Barnes did), a Kearsarge graduate who grew up in Warner (0:26:32, 0:50:48). |
| Candace Crawford | Board chair; moderator | Opens the forum and reports the candidate's day (0:00:15, 0:00:46). Reads about a dozen submitted questions, some condensed, and recognizes floor questions (0:02:21 onward). Adds her own on open enrollment (0:28:22) and on working in person (1:02:37). Closes the forum and notes that his resume is online (1:19:02, 1:19:35). |
| William Madden | Board member | Recognized by the chair; declines to ask a question (1:09:04). |
| Kim (surname not stated) | Audience member; parent of children in the district for 11 years | Asks about accountability and grade-entry timeliness (0:10:00, 0:14:11). |
| Mark (surname not stated) | Audience member | Asks how fans and critics would describe the candidate's leadership (0:18:50); comments on turnaround hiring (1:08:39). |
| David (surname not stated) | Audience member; says he has done long-range planning in the community and is a former teacher | Asks about inclusive planning (0:20:04), sustainable community engagement (1:09:09) and the candidate's availability to teachers (1:15:47). |
| Michelle (surname not stated) | Audience member | Raises self-contained classrooms, class sizes that went from 14 to 28, and staffing shortages (0:37:20). |
| Jason (surname not stated) | Audience member | Asks whether the lowest bid must win an RFP (1:02:00). Not identified further; the page does not assume he is any district employee of that name. |
| Unidentified audience member | Addressed by the chair as doctor | Asks about test scores as a measure (0:43:56), the candidate's dissertation (0:54:12) and public engagement (1:13:52). |
| Unidentified audience member | Asks about pre-K eligibility and central-office staffing | 1:04:02, 1:05:20. |
| Unidentified audience member | Back of the room | Asks where the candidate already sees room for change (0:48:50). |
| Matt Bean (submitted question) | Claremont taxpayer; question read by the chair | The chair reads it as "from Matt being" (0:30:36); the project's roster records the ASR rendering of this Ward 1 resident's name. Asks about open enrollment, charter schools, education freedom accounts and state funding. |
Order of business (reconstructed)
No agenda was located. The sequence is reconstructed from the chair's transitions. Submitted (online) questions were read by the chair and alternated with questions from the floor.
| Taken up | Item | What happened |
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| 0:00:15 | Welcome | The chair introduces the candidate and his day: the Dow building, the tech center, the middle school, the high school, Disnard (transcript: desired), Maple and the Sugar River Education Association leadership (0:00:46); about 12 or 15 questions were submitted online (0:01:16). |
| 0:02:21 | Submitted questions and floor questions | Eight submitted questions read by the chair (curriculum, reconfiguration, school choice, state funding, SAS results, board overreach, HR and cash flow, and her own on in-person work) and about ten from the floor. |
| 1:19:02 | Close | The chair thanks the candidate and the audience, notes that she did not summarize his CV, says the resume is online and gives her district email for further questions (1:19:35). No adjournment is called; none was needed if the event was not a meeting (see flag 1). |
Discussion timeline
Times are taken from the dialogue transcript (Dialogue/17300 SchoolBoardBroderickInterview040626.mp4.CSV) and link into the recording. The candidate's figures are his own statements and are not verified here (see flag 2).
| Time | Topic | What was said | Flags |
|---|
| 0:02:21 | Curriculum and professional development | Broadrick: central-office work "around keeping track of the money and making sure that we're meeting our obligations to taxpayers. And that's probably job number one for your next system leader." (0:03:52). Someone other than the superintendent must lead curriculum daily (0:05:35); the strategic plan may need revisiting "in light of the last 9 or 12 months" (0:06:30). PD days should be mapped out "more or less by September" (0:09:02). | |
| 0:10:00 | Accountability and grade books | Kim: grades can go "months without without seeing grades" (0:14:11). Broadrick: educators should update grade books and special-education service logs "on a weekly basis", an expectation he says labor leaders generally accept (0:15:39, 0:16:02). | |
| 0:17:00 | Reconfiguration | "One school has closed, and there's going to be a grade level reconfiguration that results in some other movement going into next year. Don't make another change for the next 12 months. Study. Think. Plan." (0:18:12). | |
| 0:18:50 | Leadership style | Asked by labor leaders whether things are his way or the highway: "yes, things can be my way or the highway. And I'm always willing to listen." Inflexible where law or regulation decides; his example is NHDOE approval of a self-contained special-education program (0:21:17, 0:21:37). | |
| 0:22:35 | School choice and enrollment | Public schools "have been competing for students for decades" (0:23:25); "roughly 10% of the students enrolled in Claremont schools left" between last school year and this one, which he attributes to the deficit headlines; "It was a lack of systems in the central office that did that." (0:25:06, 0:26:06). Some families have returned since September (0:26:57). | OBS |
| 0:28:22 | Open enrollment and the March warrant article | The chair: the district passed an article in March under which it "would pay for zero students to go out of district". Broadrick: the open enrollment law dates from 2009 and is poorly understood; with no district nearby accepting students, "they're not leaving Claremont" (0:29:13, 0:30:09). | OBS |
| 0:30:36 | State funding | "Claremont last year spent roughly $26,000 per student, not including out of district special ed costs or transportation." "That should be enough money. The funding problem here isn't not enough money." (0:34:13, 0:34:46). With differentiated aid, "Claremont actually receives the sixth highest per pupil rate of state aid", which a higher adequacy figure could reduce (0:35:42). | OBS |
| 0:37:20 | Class sizes and staffing | Michelle: fourth-grade classrooms at Maple Avenue went from 14 to 28 students; buildings without nurses (0:37:55, 0:38:42). Broadrick: "I was a little surprised at some of the class sizes in your elementary schools." (0:39:28); preschool for every qualifying child is "probably high priority" (0:39:47); enrollment fell from "over 1700" to "well under 1500" (0:40:41, 0:41:10); "Instead of paying more people less, you can pay fewer people a little bit better." (0:42:18). | OBS |
| 0:43:56 | Test scores | Score gains are a "Byproduct of doing the right things" (0:44:55); cites Stanford researcher Sean Reardon on socioeconomic status and achievement (0:45:44). | |
| 0:50:23 | Results in his current district | Alton and Barnstead had three superintendents; a shared-services agreement now gives one superintendent, one assistant superintendent and one special-education director, with less spent on central-office salaries (0:51:41, 0:52:21); elementary growth above the state average after hiring an assistant superintendent for curriculum (0:53:16). | |
| 0:55:36 | Board overreach into operations | Submitted question about the board "overstepping into operational matters". Broadrick: the superintendent "works for the school board, managing all of the operations" (0:56:29); the board has been more involved than it should be "because you haven't had much choice. But isn't that why we're here right now?" (0:56:59, 0:57:15). The chair: No comment. (0:57:19). | |
| 0:57:24 | HR, cash flow and procurement | In Barnstead, after an embezzlement, he and the business administrator had the board adopt "9 or 10 new financial control policies" and wrote a procurement guide (0:58:49): "Being an employee of a school district does not give you permission to enter into financial obligations for the school district." Three tiers in his district: up to $1,500 best business practice, three written quotes above that, a sealed-bid RFP above $20,000 (1:00:04, 1:00:39). Follow the rules and "you will never wonder where $5 million one it just won't be possible" (1:01:14). He had shared the guide with Matt Angell "a few months ago", before applying (1:01:40). | |
| 1:02:37 | Will he relocate? | The chair cites "a policy that employees must be physically present at work for all their contracted days" and past problems with employees "working from home". Broadrick: "This job has to be done here."; he and his wife "don't intend to relocate permanently to Claremont, but I would certainly need to be sleeping here at least. The majority of the time" (1:03:13, 1:03:32). | OBS |
| 1:04:02 | Pre-K eligibility; recruiting | Preschool programs are "fundamentally special education programs that include non-disabled peers" (1:04:36). On recruiting: "Settling for less is the wrong answer" (1:08:17); train willing people into roles (1:07:47). | |
| 1:09:09 | Engaging families | On the end of the promise that hard work leaves children better off than their parents (1:10:26); evening uses of the tech center building for parents (1:12:35). | |
| 1:13:52 | Public engagement | Not usually in the habit of weekly office hours, "But I think that might be a good idea here." (1:14:48); would ask to be invited into classrooms and attend games and concerts (1:16:35, 1:17:50). | |
| 1:19:02 | Close | The chair: the resume is online; further questions to her district email (1:19:35). | POS |
Items flagged for review
These flags are a reviewer's aid, not findings of violation and not legal advice. Each one names the rule it rests on, as that rule read on April 6, 2026, or is labeled an observation where no verified rule applies.
MEDIUM A board-run forum in the hiring process, attended by at least two members and reportedly most of the board, has no posted notice, agenda or minutes
RSA 91-A:2, I defines a meeting as "the convening of a quorum of the membership of a public body ... for the purpose of discussing or acting upon a matter" within its jurisdiction, and excludes "A chance, social, or other encounter not convened for the purpose of discussing or acting upon such matters". The forum was organized by the board as part of its own hiring process, run by its chair, and attended at least by Mr. Madden (1:09:04); the candidate said "most members of your school board, I think are in the room right now" (0:56:09). If four of seven members were present, it was arguably a meeting, which requires notice posted at least 24 hours ahead and minutes under RSA 91-A:2, II. No notice, agenda or minutes for April 6 was found in the district's shares (MAP.md section 299; rechecked this run). Applying the project's severity rule, the limb is MEDIUM rather than HIGH because the record mitigates it: the forum was announced in open session on April 1 with its date, time and place (see the April 1 page) and in the April 1 minutes, the public was invited, and CCTV recorded it in full. Whether a quorum attended is the fact that would settle the question; members did not deliberate or vote on tape.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, I and II (definition of meeting; notice and minutes); 4.1.26 Approved minutes (future dates: "April 6th 5-7 candidate forum")
OBSERVATION The candidate's figures about Claremont are stated, not sourced
Several figures were offered as fact: about 10% of students left between last school year and this one (0:25:06); spending of "roughly $26,000 per student" excluding out-of-district special education and transportation (0:34:13); the "sixth highest per pupil rate of state aid" once differentiated aid is counted (0:35:42); enrollment of "over 1700" ten years ago and "well under 1500" now (0:40:41, 0:41:10); and an open enrollment law "passed in 2009" (0:29:13). The chair also described a March warrant article under which the district "would pay for zero students to go out of district" (0:28:22). None of these is checked on this page. NHDOE cost-per-pupil and enrollment reports, the DOE-25 and the March 2026 warrant would settle them. They matter because the candidate built his funding argument ("The funding problem here isn't not enough money") on the per-pupil figure.
Sources: Dialogue/17300 SchoolBoardBroderickInterview040626.mp4.CSV; New Hampshire Department of Education (district finance and enrollment data)
OBSERVATION The chair cited a physical-presence policy; the candidate said he would not relocate permanently
The chair read a submitted question citing "a policy that employees must be physically present at work for all their contracted days" and past problems with staff "working from home" (1:02:37). The candidate said the job "has to be done here" and that he would need to sleep in Claremont most of the time but does not intend to relocate permanently, his home being "about a two hour drive from here" (1:03:13, 1:03:32). The policy was not identified by name and is not checked here. On April 15 the board reported a non-unanimous vote to offer him the position, with Mr. Howard and Ms. Crawford opposed, and a contract still being drafted; the terms on presence would be in that contract.
Sources: 4.15.26 Approved CSB Meeting Minutes (search results announcement); Dialogue/17300 SchoolBoardBroderickInterview040626.mp4.CSV
POSITIVE The finalist faced an open public forum, with questions taken from the floor and online, recorded for broadcast
No statute requires a school board to put a superintendent finalist before the public. The board announced the forum in open session five days ahead, invited residents who could not attend to submit questions (0:01:16; see also the April 1 page), alternated those with floor questions, and had CCTV record it for broadcast the next morning. The chair read pointed questions as submitted, including ones on board overreach and the candidate's residence (0:55:36, 1:02:37), and the candidate answered each one.
Sources: Dialogue/17300 SchoolBoardBroderickInterview040626.mp4.CSV; 4.1.26 Approved minutes
Appendix: source files
Official and public sources
Project files
Working files this page was built from. The dialogue file is linked; the others are not published with the page.
Laws and rules cited on this page
- RSA 91-A:2, I and II (as amended 2025, 112:1, eff. Aug. 22, 2025): definition of a meeting; notice; minutes