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<span class="image image-framed image-right image-tilt-left" style="width: 50%;"><span class="image-inner-wrapper"><img src="https://run.imgix.net/a8631d60-5b84-4b9c-9d7c-08b257287768/db99cc1a-ade2-4e6e-a59e-dc8a3155b880/db99cc1a-ade2-4e6e-a59e-dc8a3155b880.png?ixlib=js-3.8.0&amp;bri=0&amp;con=0&amp;sat=0&amp;high=0&amp;shad=0&amp;usm=0&amp;rect=0%2C0%2C1086%2C1448&amp;w=1500" alt="" caption="" align="right" alignwidth="50" tiltdirection="left" variant="framed"></span><span class="caption" style="display: none;"></span></span><h1><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary);">For the next generation</span></h1><h3 style="text-align: left;">Today, Lisa is a grandmother who wants the next generation of Granite Staters to grow up in a New Hampshire where families can build a good life, children can thrive, and public leaders remember who they serve.</h3><h4>She believes New Hampshire should be a place where families can build a good life, where children can grow up with strong schools and healthy communities, and where leaders remember who they serve.</h4>

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<h3>Lisa's Priorities</h3><h4>Lisa will bring both the compassion of a nurse and the common sense of an executive to the table to <span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary);">ensure our tax dollars deliver real results for the people who live here. </span></h4><h4>No rubber stamping, no outside agendas. </h4>

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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"><strong>The Executive Council helps shape the decisions that impact your daily life in New Hampshire</strong> — from state contracts and key appointments to oversight of how your tax dollars are spent.</span></p><p>The Council:</p><p><strong>- Approves major state contracts</strong></p><p><strong>- Confirms key appointments</strong></p><p><strong>- Serves as a check when state government falls short</strong></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">The Council's work affects your healthcare, your schools, your roads, and your trust in state government.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">That’s why we deserve Councilors who care about people <em>and</em> the bottom line.</span></p>

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<h1><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary);">Lisa has spent her life in service to others.</span></h1><h3><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Lisa was raised in a family that believed service meant stepping up when others needed you. Her father lied about his age to join the Army at 17 and fight in World War II. Her mother was a maternity nurse and Red Cross volunteer.</span></h3><h3><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Her parents' choices helped shape Lisa’s lifelong belief that public life should be about courage, responsibility, and doing your part for others.</span></h3><h3><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">As a nurse, educator, nonprofit leader, mother of four, and grandmother, Lisa has spent her own life caring for people and strengthening the institutions that families rely on.</span></h3><h3><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">For decades, she has served patients in New Hampshire, mentored future healthcare professionals, and helped organizations work better for the people and communities they serve.</span></h3><h2><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary);">She is running for Executive Council because Granite Staters deserve leadership grounded in service, independence, and common sense.</span></h2><p></p><span class="image image-framed image-center image-tilt-left" style="width: 94%;"><span class="image-inner-wrapper"><img src="https://run.imgix.net/a8631d60-5b84-4b9c-9d7c-08b257287768/f48d8f50-d876-455a-86dc-0a1bc12bf752/f48d8f50-d876-455a-86dc-0a1bc12bf752.jpg?ixlib=js-3.8.0&amp;bri=0&amp;con=0&amp;sat=0&amp;high=0&amp;shad=0&amp;usm=0&amp;rect=0%2C0%2C2420%2C1816&amp;w=1500" alt="" caption="" align="center" alignwidth="47" tiltdirection="left" variant="framed"></span><span class="caption" style="display: none;"></span></span>

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<span class="image image-framed image-right image-tilt-left" style="width: 45%;"><span class="image-inner-wrapper"><img src="https://run.imgix.net/a8631d60-5b84-4b9c-9d7c-08b257287768/862e4d79-0628-4ae6-be2d-f79ae129a345/862e4d79-0628-4ae6-be2d-f79ae129a345.png?ixlib=js-3.8.0&amp;bri=0&amp;con=0&amp;sat=0&amp;high=0&amp;shad=0&amp;usm=0&amp;rect=0%2C0%2C444%2C547&amp;w=1500" alt="" caption="" align="right" alignwidth="45" tiltdirection="left" variant="framed"></span><span class="caption" style="display: none;"></span></span><h1><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary);">Experience that fits the job.</span></h1><h3>Lisa has spent years doing the kind of work this office is supposed to oversee. Through leadership roles at the Oncology Nursing Society and board service with Saint Anselm College, Waypoint, and the National Cancer Policy Forum, she has worked with contracts, budgets, grants, appointments, and policy decisions that carry real consequences for families and communities.</h3><h4>She understands how grants, contracts, and public funding decisions shape real outcomes — and how important it is to make sure those dollars are being spent wisely. She knows how to ask hard questions, read the fine print, and make sure institutions work for the people they are meant to serve.</h4>

<span class="image image-framed image-right image-tilt-left" style="width: 40%;"><span class="image-inner-wrapper"><img src="https://run.imgix.net/a8631d60-5b84-4b9c-9d7c-08b257287768/cf001601-5dac-45d6-952e-017770255f02/cf001601-5dac-45d6-952e-017770255f02.png?ixlib=js-3.8.0&amp;bri=0&amp;con=0&amp;sat=0&amp;high=0&amp;shad=0&amp;usm=0&amp;rect=0%2C0%2C2320%2C3088&amp;w=1500" alt="" caption="" align="right" alignwidth="40" tiltdirection="left" variant="framed"></span><span class="caption" style="display: none;"></span></span><h1><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary);">A life of service. A record of leadership.</span></h1><h3>Lisa spent 22 years caring for patients at St. Joseph Hospital Cancer Center in Nashua. She earned her PhD in nursing. She taught and mentored future healthcare professionals.</h3><h4>As a tenured faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Lisa taught future healthcare professionals and helped them deepen the connection between evidence, practice, and public service.</h4><h4>Lisa knows what it means to review consequential decisions carefully, ask hard questions, and make sure institutions are serving the people they are meant to serve.</h4>

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<h1><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary);">It's time for a different kind of leadership.</span></h1><h3><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">District 3 families do not need more drift, more excuses, or more politics-as-usual.</span></h3><h3><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">We need leaders who understand what families care about now – and what the next generation will inherit if we keep getting these decisions wrong.</span></h3><h3><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">That is why Lisa Kennedy Sheldon is running for Executive Council.</span></h3><h3><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Care. Competence. Common sense.</span></h3>

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<h1>Everything costs too much.</h1><h2><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary);">From housing and child care to health care, schools, and taxes, too many families in District 3 are paying more and getting less.</span></h2><h3><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Housing is getting more expensive. Child care is harder to find. Health care costs more. Public schools are under pressure.</span></h3><h3><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">After more than a decade of one-party rule in Concord, families are getting more ideology, more excuses, and too little accountability. It’s time for a change.</span></h3><h2><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary);">The Executive Council does not pass laws, but it does approve major contracts, confirm key appointments, and help decide whether your tax dollars are being spent wisely.</span></h2><h3><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">This is an office with real power to ask hard questions, demand better answers, and protect New Hampshire families from bad state decisions.</span></h3><h3><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Lisa Kennedy Sheldon is running for Executive Council to bring care, competence, and common sense to one of the most important jobs in New Hampshire government.</span></h3>

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<p><strong>What we can do to address New Hampshire's nursing shortage</strong></p><p><strong>Lisa Kennedy Sheldon</strong></p><p>Guest Columnist, Seacoast Online</p><p>May 16, 2026, 5:01 a.m. ET</p><p>Walk through any hospital corridor in New Hampshire and you'll hear the same thing from administrators, nurses and patients: there simply aren't enough nurses. As an experienced nurse leader and former faculty, I see this crisis affecting the health of Granite Staters and can no longer look away.</p><p>New Hampshire currently faces a shortfall of approximately 2,000 nurses leaving our hospitals to rely on expensive, out-of-state contract or “travel” nurses. A travel RN costs New Hampshire hospitals roughly 40–70% more per hour than a staff RN in base pay alone. These numbers aren't just bureaucratic data points - they represent real patients waiting longer for care, real increases in the cost of healthcare and copays, real nurses burning out under crushing workloads, and real communities at risk when they are sick.</p><p>Our rural geography and reliance on small, regional healthcare providers compound the problem and make our citizens more vulnerable. Many communities have only one hospital or primary care clinic within reasonable distance. Staffing shortages in areas such as maternity care and mental health have already strained the system. In fact, nine hospitals - mostly in rural areas - have closed labor and delivery services since 2000. This doubles the commute time for women in rural areas, putting pregnant women and their babies at risk.</p><p>Compounding the problem is a national pipeline crisis - we don’t have enough nursing faculty to train new nurses. Between 2024 and 2025, more than 65,000 qualified candidates were turned away from nursing programs nationwide due to faculty shortages, fewer clinical training sites, and budget constraints. New Hampshire is no exception to this bottleneck. Students want to become nurses; the system lacks the capacity to train them. In addition, the federal loans to train nursing faculty have recently been capped by the federal government at a lower level.</p><p>What can New Hampshire do? The answer requires action on several fronts simultaneously.</p><p>1. Invest in nursing education infrastructure. Saint Anselm College's new Jean School of Nursing and Health Sciences - a $40 million, 45,000-square-foot facility - represents exactly the kind of bold commitment to expand classroom and clinical training capacity with funding from private donors, the state and federal government thanks to Senator Shaheen and Representative Pappas, and foundations. More institutions should follow this collaborative model.</p><p>2. Tackle the faculty shortage head-on. You cannot train more nurses without more nurse educators. Loan forgiveness programs specifically targeting nursing faculty would help lure experienced clinicians into the classroom. Some institutions are already experimenting with tuition-free pathways. For example, New Hampshire could partner with UNH, Plymouth State, or Rivier University to co-fund a faculty pipeline program with a service-back requirement to meet the needs of rural and underserved communities.</p><p>Experienced nurses in clinical sites could assist with teaching in return for tuition waivers for graduate education.</p><p>3. Expand financial incentives for rural service. States are increasingly experimenting with tuition-free nursing programs, last-dollar scholarships, and rural service scholarships to attract nurses where they are needed most. For example, the newly funded GO-NORTH program in New Hampshire will provide more than $130 million over the next five years to work on the development of training and higher education programs for healthcare professionals.</p><p>4. Embrace technology. Virtual nursing roles - where remote RNs handle patient education, monitoring, and triage - are freeing on-site nurses for hands-on care. AI-driven staffing platforms are helping balance workloads and prevent overtime fatigue.</p><p>5. Retain the nurses we already have. Competitive wages, flexible scheduling, mental health support, tuition reimbursement, on-site child care, and meaningful career advancement pathways are not luxuries - they are retention strategies that pay for themselves many times over in avoided turnover costs. And keep our nurses in beautiful New Hampshire!</p><p>The nursing shortage didn't develop overnight, and it won't be solved with a single policy. But New Hampshire has always prided itself on self-reliance and pragmatic problem-solving. It is time to put those values to work. The health of the Granite State - quite literally - depends on it.</p>

<p><strong>Lisa reflects on </strong><a href="https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/05/26/commentary-oncology-nurses-are-committed-to-empowering-patients/70256867007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>patient-centered care, the role of oncology nurses, and why compassion and evidence</strong></a><strong> must go hand in hand.</strong></p>

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<p><strong>Educational Opportunity Project finds NH students' learning loss while Dover rebounds</strong></p><p><strong>Lisa Kennedy Sheldon</strong></p><p>Guest Columnist, Seacoast Online</p><p>May 22, 2026, 5:06 a.m. ET</p><p>New Hampshire parents, grandparents, and community members, it's time to pay attention. A&nbsp;<a href="https://edopportunity.org/">major new study</a>&nbsp;just dropped some&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/reading-math-test-scores-education-scorecard-7fa4111ad0de934f664ebb984e830d13">troubling news</a>&nbsp;about how our kids are doing in school — and the results are hard to ignore.</p><p>On May 13, researchers from Stanford, Dartmouth, and Harvard released ten years of reading and math test scores for students in grades 3 through 8 across the country. Their project — called the&nbsp;<a href="https://edopportunity.org/">Educational Opportunity Project</a>&nbsp;— is designed to help parents, teachers, and lawmakers understand where students are succeeding and where they are struggling.</p><p>The short answer? A lot of kids are struggling.</p><p>Federal law requires every state to test students in grades 3 through 8 every year in reading and math. Those results are supposed to be public. What the new data shows is alarming: one in three school districts in the United States has dropped a full grade level in both reading and math since 2015. That means a student who should be reading at a fifth-grade level is reading like a fourth grader. That's a big deal.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/upshot/test-scores-school-districts-us.html">The New York Times</a>&nbsp;reviewed the data and broke it down by state and by individual school districts. You can even&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/upshot/look-up-district-test-scores.html">look up your own town</a>. For New Hampshire, the picture is not pretty.</p><p>So what happened? Researchers point to several causes. In 2015, the federal "No Child Left Behind" law was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/10/459219774/president-obama-signs-education-law-leaving-no-child-behind">relaxed</a>, giving each state more control over its own testing rules. Around the same time, cell phones and social media became part of everyday life for kids. Then COVID hit, and schools shut down for months. When students came back, many were absent far more than before. And across the board, kids are reading fewer books.</p><p>Add it all together, and you have a recipe for falling behind.</p><p>As a grandmother who raised four kids in New Hampshire, I find these numbers deeply worrying. What kind of future are we building for our grandchildren if they can't read or do math at grade level? These are not small problems that fix themselves. Reading and math are the building blocks of everything else — science, history, careers, and daily life.</p><p>But here's the part that gives me hope.</p><p>Not every school district is failing. Some are actually doing better than others, and we can learn from them. One shining example right here in New Hampshire is the city of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/new-hampshire/districts/dover-school-district-110641">Dover.</a>&nbsp;According to the Educational Opportunity Project, Dover is bouncing back from the damage caused by COVID faster than most other communities in the state and the country.</p><p>The credit goes in large part to Dover's school superintendent,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/education/2024/08/07/christine-boston-dover-schools-superintendent/74669580007/">Dr. Christine Boston</a>, who has made targeted recovery a priority. Dover shows that with strong leadership and a clear plan, schools can turn things around. That's not just good news for Dover — it's a model for every town in New Hampshire.</p><p>We shouldn't wait for things to get worse before we act. School board meetings, town halls, and conversations with local leaders are all places where parents and community members can raise these issues. Ask your school district how your students compare. Ask what plans are in place to improve reading and math scores. Ask what's working — and what isn't.</p><p>Our kids deserve better than a slow slide backward. The data is clear. The problem is real. And the good news is, we already have a success story in our own backyard.</p><p>Let's learn from it.</p>

<p><strong>Lisa writes about </strong><a href="https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2026/05/22/study-shows-nh-students-learning-loss-while-dover-rebounds-sheldon/90194794007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>learning loss, recovery, and what accountability should look like</strong></a><strong> for our schools and communities.</strong></p>

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