BERLIN — The Berlin Board of Education last Thursday discussed Education Commissioner Frank Edelbut’s announcement of a website created to report complaints under House Bill 2. The bill, signed into law June 25, added a prohibition of teaching so-called “divisive concepts” related to race and gender to state law pertaining to the freedom from discrimination in workplaces and education.
Superintendent Julie King referred to an op-ed in Thursday’s Berlin Sun by Carl Ladd about the actions taken by the commissioner. King said that Ladd’s op-ed concerned the group Moms for Liberty, whose New Hampshire state chapter offered a $500 bounty via social media for the first person to report a public school teacher for violating the provisions of the bill.
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