During Thursday’s voting session, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to pass an amended version of a bill aimed at easing requirements for home-based early education programs to open.  House Bill 1195 is a two-part bill that addresses zoning issues affecting home-based care and small child care centers. The first part of the bill […]

After the COVID-19 pandemic upended public education, New Hampshire’s Department of Education sought a new avenue for state investment: “learning pods.”  Presented by then-Commissioner Frank Edelblut, the idea was to allow parents to send children to smaller classroom environments outside the public school system, run by “tutors,” to allow more one-to-one attention and combat learning […]

Opening a home-based child care program is on the path to becoming easier for providers.  The House Committee on Municipal and County Government heard testimony Tuesday for legislation that would tackle a small piece of New Hampshire’s child care availability issue. House Bill 1195 seeks to address local zoning issues affecting family child care and […]

The program began as a bipartisan idea: to incentivize cities and towns to change their zoning codes and approve more housing developments. But three years after the launch of the state-funded, $5 million New Hampshire Housing Champions program, that bipartisan support has crumbled.  Facing projected revenue shortfalls, lawmakers stopped funding the program in the 2025 […]