InDepthNH.org (https://indepthnh.org/category/education/page/9/)
Coverage involving education and schools.
The first installment explained how child care in New Hampshire is currently suffering, leaving families without access to vital child care or unable to pay for it, while child care workers remain underpaid, burnt out, and their facilities understaffed.
Rep. Karen Ebel, D-New London, speaks in favor of her bill to ban products that have had PFAs intentionally added to them at Thursday’s House session.
By the slimmest of margins, the House defeated two bills that would address homelessness and hunger among students and young people Thursday.
The Executive Council was told at least 60,000 vehicles above the normal flow passed through the tolls for the Solar Eclipse, and approved $21 million for the purchase of Granite Place South from developer Stephen M. Duprey of Concord.
A House Education subcommittee on administrative rules raised some fundamental concerns about the new proposal for the state’s minimum standards for public school approval.
Accusing Senate Republicans of “shocking and extreme moves” Friday, Democrats criticized two 14-10 votes in which transgender girls would be prohibited from playing girls public high school and college sports in New Hampshire and one that creates a process for parents across the state to ban books in schools.
A bill that would require teachers to fully answer parents’ questions about their child within 10 days with any omission considered a violation of the state teacher code of conduct was passed by the Senate Friday along partisan lines by the Republican majority.
On Wednesday, the NH State Board of Education is holding the first of two public hearings on two initial proposals that overhaul the state’s Minimum Standards for Public School Approval, which are the foundational rules that govern all public schools in New Hampshire.
One of the bills on the New Hampshire House of Representative’s Thursday schedule is HB 1014, a bill that would bolster voter registration efforts among young people by altering public and private school curricula.