CONCORD — Department of Education officials are meeting bi-weekly with Manchester School District Superintendent Tom Brennan to address overcrowding issues in the city’s schools, the State Board of Education was told Wednesday.

Deputy Commission Paul Leather said the issues of class size, credits and the credits needed to graduate, as well as the state minimum standards, are being discussed.

Teacher layoffs have resulted in some large classes that have parents educators and communities sending students to the Manchester schools concerned.

Brennan has submitted a preliminary report, Leather said, and will submit an additional report on how the school will address the adequacy report issued earlier this month.

The adequacy report done for all of the nearly 500 public schools in the state is intended to ensure the schools offer a state-defined adequate education.

Eight elementary schools failed, four of them from Manchester.

State School Board member John Rist, a long-time principal in the Manchester school system, asked if the board would be able to review the reports, and Leather said members could if they requested that.

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