InDepthNH.org (https://indepthnh.org/category/education/page/43/)
Coverage involving education and schools.
Meeting Monday for the first time, the commission picked a leader and agreed to hold forums around the state as the members work to develop recommendations for the next legislature that serves beginning in 2021.
By comparison, New Hampshire public schools reported 5,245 restraint incidents and 3,429 seclusion incidents from school years 2015 to 2018.
The “Red Flag” bill’s prime sponsor Rep. Debra Altschiller, D-Stratham, said since the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee first held a public hearing on the bill last spring, the state’s suicide and homicide rates have grown.
The Senate worked through 74 bills on the regular and consent calendar at breakneck speed sending many to interim study or outright killing them as inexpedient to legislate, finishing their work shortly after 1 p.m.
The turmoil over the charter school grant is just the latest excuse by Mr. Edelblut to complain about New Hampshire’s public school employees.
In a busy agenda, Sununu also nominated Lori Shibinette as Health and Human Services Commissioner and Lori Harnois to head the Division of Travel and Tourism.
We will confer with Washington to preserve the availability of these funds. We will work with the Legislature to authorize acceptance of this grant.
A grant that would have meant $46 million in federal funds to help create new public charter schools across the state was in limbo Friday after the Democratically controlled majority of the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee voted to reject the first round of $10 million.
Podcast: A Conversation with Fred Bramante