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The Amtrak Downeaster pulling out of Exeter on its way to Maine with special 1955 vintage "Dome" viewing car behind the engine.
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Property taxpayers now fund more than seven out of every ten dollars spent on New Hampshire’s public schools, while New Hampshire ranks last in the nation for the share of public education revenue provided through State funding, according to a new analysis from the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute.
It’s been a summer of giving and learning for five Holderness School students who volunteered to spend a week in Poland helping Ukrainian children who lost their fathers in the ongoing war with Russia as part of the Common Man for Ukraine’s children’s retreat session.
While New Hampshire schools are ranked fourth best in the country, New Hampshire provides the least percentage of state aid to public schools in the country, at 19 or 29 percent, depending on whether you include the Statewide Education Property Tax in the total which raises $363 million annually.
The Children’s Scholarship Fund New Hampshire, which administers the state’s Education Freedom Account program and its Business Education Tax Credit Scholarship Program, is adding staff in anticipation of the new federal voucher program set to begin Jan. 1.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed 20 bills into law this week – including one of the most controversial HB 1300, which requires each municipality to include a question on the 2026 and 2028 ballots capping local school budgets “for a period of two years.” She also vetoed three bills.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed nine bills, a toll increase for out of staters, a “book ban,” a measure that would have allowed the Attorney General’s Office to target health care centers where abortions are provided and a measure that would have allowed for landlords to get two months of rent up front.
Members of unions representing University of New Hampshire graduate students and faculty made their cases for fair contracts during a University System Board of Trustees meeting Friday at UNH in Durham.
To celebrate America’s 250th, a 10-minute video has just been produced featuring 50 present and former state leaders in a ceremonial reading the Declaration of Independence.
At NHFPI, we identified several of the bills passed by the Legislature this year that could have significant impacts on Granite Staters; including changes to State fiscal policy, health care, child care, and housing policies.
– Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed one of two bathroom bills on Friday and the other one hasn’t yet reached her desk. She vetoed several other bills and signed 54 bills into law.