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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.
A Manchester man is facing a felony assault charge in connection with an incident that took place at Parker Varney Elementary School last month, according to Manchester police.
The Senate voted to expand the school voucher program, eliminated some credentialing requirements for part-time teachers and voted unanimously to recommend to the voters a change in the state Constitution enshrining the first-in-the-nation primary.
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.
The transgender rights community came out in force on a snowy Tuesday to push back on Republican bills that single them out, including the definition of sexual identity and creating a legal action against doctors who perform gender transitional care.
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.
The state needs to step up and begin addressing recent and past court decisions on its unconstitutional education funding system, the House Education Committee was told Wednesday.
The prime sponsor of the proposed amendment, Rep. Catherine Sofikitis, D-Nashua, was not optimistic about a positive recommendation from the committee, but said she viewed her proposal as the beginning of a dialogue to discuss the policy and to begin moving away from the divisions plaguing the country.