InDepthNH.org (https://indepthnh.org/series/distant-dome/page/2)
Garry Rayno
The federal dollars that help prevent a debilitating recession fueled state revenues, but now more than half of the states — including New Hampshire — are experiencing lower revenues than the year before.
While lawmakers await a performance audit of the Education Freedom Account program by the Legislative Budget Assistant expected later this year, a Department of Education compliance report done last fall, but released last month found enough issues to require the program’s administrator to reverify all participants’ applications for the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years.
Draft changes to minimum standards for public schools, approved unanimously by the State Board of Education last week, were the subject of a legislative oversight meeting Thursday with a Democrat tangling with the Education Commissioner for two hours on whether they water down education in New Hampshire.
Private enterprise and free markets may not be the answer to everything as some would have you believe. There are some things that perform better when the bottom line is not the driving reason for corporate decisions.
America’s traditional institutions, the foundation for the greatest political experiment in history, are under attack from the social safety net to food regulations, and from the court system to environmental protection.
Take for example prison reform that sought to address the inmates who refused to take any of the rehabilitation programs while in prison and were back on the streets after their sentences ended.
Something that never occurred before has happened not once but multiple times over the last decade: the erosion of individual rights once guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution and the New Hampshire Constitution.
However, some of the people made incredibly rich under the old system of cheap labor and stealing resources as the Koch industry did oil from Indian lands, wanted to keep fighting the Civil War as the federal courts ordered integrated schools.
The adage often heard in the halls of the State House when medical services are at issue is “all patients should be able to access the care they need, when and where they need it.”
Too many people interested in power instead of governing don’t want a truly informed public. Instead, they want enough of the public spoon fed “alternative facts,” conspiracy theories, and outright lies to ensure they retain power although they have views that are both harmful to the majority of citizens and allow the tyranny of the minority to overturn the will of the majority.