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Thirteen months after student dining hall workers at Dartmouth College formed a union to win improvements in pay and working conditions, the Student Workers Collective at Dartmouth (SWCD) has won an agreement with the college that includes a $21 an hour base wage.
The Statewide Education Property Tax has been the subject of several lawsuits against the state with the latest currently before Rockingham County Superior Court.
A bill expanding criminal background checks to employees or volunteers of non-public educational services that take state money drew opposition from a number of homeschoolers Friday at a public hearing before the House Education Committee.
After several years of considerable revenue surpluses, the state’s higher education institutions are seeking to at least return to levels of support they had more than a decade ago when state support was slashed in half.
The Milford School Board heard sometimes tearful testimony about a proposed change that would no longer allow students to use the bathroom and locker room that correspond with their gender identity.
Changes to the Education Freedom Account program split the House Education Committee Wednesday and will be debated on the floor of the House later this month.
A bill that would, once again, create “donor towns” under the Statewide Education Property Tax had a public hearing Tuesday before the House Ways and Means Committee.
Rep. David Luneau, D-Hopkinton, speaks to the House Education Committee Wednesday about his bill to have the Department of Education take over administration of the Education Freedom Account program.
The controversial program, which is one of the most expansive voucher programs in the country, has served about 3,000 students in its first two years, and has cost the state $24 million — well over budget — with a projected cost of $30 million a year for the next biennial budget.