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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.
On Wednesday, the House decided to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, preserve the new education choice program, and help communities with employee retirement costs.
Today I muse joyfully that those teachers will sit down at a Thanksgiving meal knowing they are working incredibly hard, in incredibly challenging times, in moments that try the souls of even the heartiest and most learned of people.
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.
We plan to continue to work to build a broad public and private coalition in favor of a Foundation Equity Reform Plan that will establish fairness and student equal opportunity as the governing standards of New Hampshire’s public education finance system.
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.
On Thursday, the New Hampshire Senate approved several bills to expand school choice for parents and allow public money to pay tuition at religious schools.
A former National Education Association-NH lobbyist once told me “Never underestimate the New Hampshire Legislature’s proclivity to be cheap.”