Does school choice always have to be about private schools?

At its best, nothing is more unifying and vital to a community’s civic health than a high-quality neighborhood school. Why, then, do all notions...

Manchester Mayor Pans School Choice Bill, Education Chair Says Cost Minimal

Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig spoke against SB 193 at a House Finance Committee meeting on January 16. Drew Cline, the State Board of Education Chairman...

MacDonald gives education savings accounts constitutional OK

According to an email obtained by the Union Leader, New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald believes that the amended version of SB 193, which...

About half of NH students would qualify for proposed voucher program

According to Representative Glenn Cordelli (Tuftonboro), a House Education Committee member and school choice advocate, about half of New Hampshire students would qualify for...

House Education Committee Recommends School Choice Bill

The Associated Press reported on the House Education Committee's recommendation to pass SB 193, the bill that would create a statewide voucher program through...

State Board approves Learn Everywhere rules while acknowledging “overwhelming” public opposition

On Thursday, June 13, the State Board of Education voted 4-3 in favor of the rules that would create the “Learn Everywhere” program. Learn...

Valley News Editorial Board questions Attorney General’s response to SB 193

The Valley News Editorial Board questioned the nature and timing of the Attorney General's response to SB 193, the bill that would create a...

Education Chairman “not optimistic” about future of statewide voucher bill

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The House Finance subcommittee has voted to keep studying SB 193, the statewide voucher bill, in a recent 7-1 vote. According to the Union...

Senate votes to send bill to expand tax credit scholarship program...

The Senate voted to send a bill that would expand New Hampshire's Education Tax Credit Scholarship Program to the Finance Committee on April 26...

Continuous Revisions of Voucher Bill are a Concern for NH Parents,...

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The statewide voucher bill, SB 193, has gone through several major revisions since it was introduced last year--each House committee has made substantial changes...