Education
NH House Kills Bills to Help Homeless and Hungry Youth
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By the slimmest of margins, the House defeated two bills that would address homelessness and hunger among students and young people Thursday.
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By the slimmest of margins, the House defeated two bills that would address homelessness and hunger among students and young people Thursday.
A House Education subcommittee on administrative rules raised some fundamental concerns about the new proposal for the state’s minimum standards for public school approval.
Or they may ignore the quagmire of picking winners and losers with an election looming and leave the mess to the next legislature to clean up.
Almost everyone testifying on the changes proposed to the state’s education minimum standards Wednesday had concerns it would exacerbate the current inequity of educational opportunities for students in the state.
Most of the attention will be on the presidential race and the two open races in New Hampshire for governor and the 2nd Congressional District, but what will have a far greater effect on your life will be who are the members elected to the New Hampshire House and Senate.
The House Thursday approved two bills that supporters say will be a step forward to addressing the state’s housing crisis, but critics called it top down zoning from the state.
The House approved House Bill 1145 which would require new landfills to be owned by the state or its political subdivisions but managed by a private contractor and would prohibit any future landfills from being privately owned.
The House Thursday took the first step to ensuring Adam Montgomery faces the family and loved ones of the daughter he is convicted of murdering when he is sentenced for his crime May 9.
The state Supreme Court on Wednesday granted the state’s and Coalition Communities 2.0’s motions to stop implementation of Superior Court Judge David Ruoff’s ruling declaring the state’s administering of the Statewide Education Property Tax unconstitutional.