Charter schools
House Rejects School Voucher Program Repeal, Public School Breakfast For All
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Efforts by Democrats in the House of Representatives to repeal the state’s new school voucher program lost on a 189-166 vote, Wednesday.
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Efforts by Democrats in the House of Representatives to repeal the state’s new school voucher program lost on a 189-166 vote, Wednesday.
Lawmakers will negotiate 44 bills over the next week to try to reconcile different versions including the state’s next two-year operating budget and capital budget.
Something must be in the water in Concord as the first debate of the day for the Senate Thursday turned heated and partisan causing Senate President Chuck Morse to call for a five-minute recess to calm the waters and move the bill to next week’s calendar.
Change often goes unnoticed if it is done in quiet little steps.
The first installment of the $46 million federal Department of Education grant, $10.1 million, was accepted on a 7-3 vote, not surprisingly down party lines.
A change in party control will mean an about face on a federal grant to encourage and help develop and expand charter schools in New Hampshire.