A proposal to address high property taxes by introducing a statewide income tax and property tax roiled Concord Tuesday, prompting denunciations by both Republican and Democratic political leaders. But proponents are asking the public to give the idea a chance. The idea, titled the “3-3 Tax Savings Plan,” would institute a 3% income tax for […]
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Christine Downing’s phone told a story. Over the course of a multi-hour hearing Tuesday afternoon, the SAU 75 superintendent received a text from her business manager about a personnel issue, a school principal about a family in need, the district’s attorney about “an ongoing legal case,” and the Grantham police chief about a law enforcement […]
New Hampshire House Republicans are moving forward with a new attempt to regulate teaching on race, history, and LGTBQ+ issues in public schools. On Thursday, the chamber passed a bill that would ban certain types of instruction and punish teachers who carried it out. Known as the CHARLIE Act and named after the conservative activist […]
As legislation to create an “open enrollment” system for public schools awaits a final vote in the House, the state’s school superintendents association is speaking against the idea. In a statement Monday, the New Hampshire School Administrators Association said the bill, House Bill 751, would “risk overriding local decision-making.” The Republican bill, which passed the […]
New Hampshire Senate Republicans fast-tracked a bill to create universal open enrollment in New Hampshire public schools Thursday, using a parliamentary maneuver to send the bill to the House without needing a hearing in either chamber. If signed into law, the legislation would allow New Hampshire residents to enroll students in any school district in […]
A draft version of a Republican oversight report on education freedom accounts concludes the program is “popular and successful” and pushes back at Democratic arguments that it detracts from public schools. “There is no evidence that increased participation in the EFA program has reduced state support for local school districts across New Hampshire,” the report […]
As New Hampshire’s education freedom account program swells past 10,000 student participants, legislative oversight has faltered. A committee meant to monitor the EFA program’s performance has not met publicly in more than a year, records show, and it has failed to produce its required annual report by its Nov. 30 deadline. The Education Freedom Savings […]
New Hampshire’s education freedom account, or EFA, program has 10,510 students participating this year, nearly double the number last year, according to figures released by the Department of Education last month. The state is expected to spend $51.6 million in total this school year, compared with $30.3 million last year. But in the months since […]
The idea started with a question, posed by the Alton and Barnstead school boards to a candidate for superintendent. The two Lakes Region towns had seen a steady drop in student enrollment in recent years. What would he, as superintendent, do to address that? Sitting across the table for that 2019 interview, Timothy Broadrick considered […]
This fall, Plymouth State University launched a flexible new option: a three-year bachelor’s degree. Students interested in specific areas of study — including cybersecurity, robotics and automation engineering, small business administration, police studies, and outdoor adventure leadership — can now obtain 96 credits and leave with a full degree. “Plymouth State University makes it easier […]