Voucher Bill Tests Ambition of School Choice Advocates in N.H.
Lawmakers will debate a controversial education bill Tuesday that would allow parents to use state tax dollars to pay for private school tuition and homeschool expenses. The bill is testing how far and...
View ArticleThe N.H. GOP Outlined an Ambitious Agenda on Education. How Much Actually...
When Republicans took full control in Concord this year, they wasted no time outlining an ambitious policy agenda on a number of fronts, including education. While Republicans were able to accomplish...
View ArticleSchool Choice Bill Up For A Vote, Public Schools Worry About Funding
A revised school voucher bill would allow parents to use tax dollars allocated to public schools to send their children to other schools, or homeschool them. Advocates say this gives children a better...
View ArticleSununu Urges Lawmakers to Support Sweeping School Choice Bill
A controversial school choice bill faces an important vote before lawmakers tomorrow. The bill would create a type of school voucher system in the state, where parents could take their children out of...
View ArticleLawmakers Postpone Key Vote on Sweeping School Choice Bill
A key legislative vote on a controversial school choice bill was postponed today. For weeks, Republican lawmakers have been working to revamp a sweeping school choice bill that was first proposed last...
View ArticleN.H. Lawmakers to Vote on Controversial School Choice Bill
A bill that would allow New Hampshire parents to use state funding to send their children to private schools faces a key vote Tuesday. The House Education Committee will vote on the controversial bill...
View ArticleSchool Choice Bill Endorsed By N.H. House Committee
A controversial school choice bill cleared a major hurdle in the State House Tuesday, receiving a positive recommendation from the House Education Committee on Tuesday by a 10-9 vote. The bill would...
View ArticleN.H. Attorney General Says Controversial School Choice Bill Passes Legal Muster
In an email sent to legislative leaders last week, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office wrote that Senate Bill 193 is constitutional. That opinion comes days before the bill is to be voted on by...
View ArticleN.H. House Approves Controversial School Choice Bill
The New Hampshire House of Representatives has approved a controversial school choice bill by a vote of 184-162.
View ArticleWeekly N.H. News Roundup: January 5, 2018
The term "bombogenesis" becomes familiar to N.H. residents as they dig out from the first major nor'easter of 2018. The N.H. Senate approves a bill that would tighten voter eligibility requirements,...
View ArticleManchester Mayor Pans School Choice Bill, Education Chair Says Cost Minimal
A controversial school choice bill drew a large crowd at a public hearing before lawmakers Tuesday. The bill would allow some parents to take their children out of public school and then spend the...
View ArticleTwo Major Education Issues This Year: Homeschooling & School Choice
One education bill, HB 1263 , would increase accountability and oversight for home-schooling, an idea debated in other states this year, and sparking huge opposition at a recent hearing in New...
View ArticleWith N.H. Lawmakers Focused Elsewhere, Another School Choice Bill Flies Under...
For over a year now, education policy watchers in Concord have focused their attention on a controversial bill that would create Education Savings Accounts. But meanwhile, another bill popular with the...
View Article'Education Savings Accounts' Bill Inches Closer to Final Vote
Lawmakers are continuing in their attempt to hammer out the details of a controversial school choice bill that was first introduced over 14 months ago. Senate Bill 193 received yet another set of...
View ArticleIn Blow to School Choice Advocates, N.H. House Panel Wants to Study SB 193
A controversial school choice bill was dealt a significant setback by lawmakers in the House Finance Committee on Wednesday. Under Senate Bill 193 , some parents could use state tax dollars to educate...
View ArticleExpansion of N.H.'s Education Tax Credit Program One Step Closer to Reality
A bill that would expand the state’s only school choice program is one step closer to becoming law. Under the existing education tax credit program , businesses in New Hampshire can get a tax break...
View ArticleWeekly N.H. News Roundup: April 27, 2018
The New Hampshire legislature approves a bill to repeal the state’s death penalty, sending the measure to the governor despite his vow to veto it. A bill re-defining “domicile” for voting purposes is...
View ArticleIn Blow To Sununu, N.H. House Votes Down School Choice Bill
A bill that would have created a school choice program in New Hampshire based on education savings accounts was voted down in the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The vote on SB 193 capped off a...
View ArticleWeekly N.H. News Roundup: May 4, 2018
Statehouse lawmakers make decisions on a number of contentious issues, including Medicaid Expansion, education freedom accounts, voting eligibility, transgender rights, and marriage age. The...
View ArticleN.H. House Rejects Education Savings Accounts, aka The 'Voucher' Bill, One...
For the third time this year, the New Hampshire House of Representatives has voted against a bill to create education savings accounts. The bill that would have allowed for state tax dollars to be...
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