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A bill that seeks to put guardrails around the use of artificial intelligence like the deepfake President Biden robocall before Tuesday’s Presidential Primary had a public hearing Wednesday.
House Bill 1652 would allow school districts to establish their own voucher accounts with local property taxpayer money if three-fifths of a school district’s voters at an annual meeting approve the program.
David Trumble of Weare speaks in opposition to House Bill 1691 before the House Education Committee Monday. The bill would require schools to emphasize English language skills, math, science and social studies over seven other content areas comprising an adequate education.
The state’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for fiscal year 2023 was released last week showing the state had continued its three-year run of good times since the COVID pandemic hit the state.
At the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee meeting Friday, lawmakers questioned if the 18-bed facility would be large enough as the current census at the Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly YDC, has been steady at 18 youths for five of the last six months.
A bill to remove obscene or harmful sexual materials from school curriculum and libraries drew a crowd with conflicting opinions Thursday before the House Education Committee.
The bills range from removing any salary cap from the program to students who were denied a manifest hardship the previous years. Another bill would increase the salary cap to 500 percent of the federal poverty level.
House Bill 1153 would require a very specific high school curriculum of anti-communism or anti-socialism in much the same manner as current anti-fascist and anti-Nazism curriculum according to the bill’s prime sponsor, Rep. Mike Belcher, R-Wakefield.
A bill to require the Children’s Scholarship Fund to incorporate in New Hampshire to continue administering the Education Tax Credit and Education Freedom Account programs created a firestorm before the House Education Committee Tuesday.