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SB 422 and HB 103 were signed into law Friday. Both pieces of legislation, prime sponsored by Senate and House Democrats, will deliver dental benefits to New Hampshire’s Medicaid recipients.
A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Grafton County Superior Court by state residential and commercial property owners claims the state failed to meet the 1997 Supreme Court’s Claremont II decision declaring the use of local property taxes with varying rates to pay for the state’s obligation to provide its students with an adequate education is unconstitutional.
Jen Bisson, a Sandown mother who founded the public education advocacy group Support Our Schools NH, handed Frank Edelblut a stack of letters calling for his resignation during the public comment period at Thursday’s monthly meeting of the NH Board of Education.
The teachers were selected from 44 nominees and include educators from Atkinson, Dover, Durham, Goffstown, Hampton, Hollis, Hudson, Merrimack, Nashua and Stoddard.
Madelynn will act as Governor for a Day tomorrow, June 1st, and join the Governor for the entire day at the State House.
When Bob Dunfey first planned a trip to Ukraine to visit his son Rob he had no way of knowing that Russia would attack the peaceful country that had become the adopted home of his son.
The Republican-backed parental bill of rights was killed in the House of Representatives Thursday by just five votes with opponents saying the bill would force schools to “out” gay students to their parents.
Guadalupe Camacho Alvarez cries inside Sacred Heart Church in Uvalde while praying on Tuesday. Alvarez’s granddaughter was inside Robb Elementary School at the time of Tuesday’s shooting but survived. Credit: Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune.
In recent sessions, what was once unthinkable, is now law, using public money to pay for religious and private schools as well as buy textbooks that advocate one religion.