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Reaching Higher NH Analysis on SB 193 finds Disproportionate Impact on...

Reaching Higher NH held a public information session this morning to present their analysis of SB 193, a bill that would create a statewide...

Amendment to statewide voucher bill increases financial burden on districts, according...

The House Finance subcommittee has released an amendment to SB 193, the bill that would create a statewide voucher bill, on Wednesday. According to...

Analysis finds that SB 193 may disadvantage students with disabilities

Reaching Higher New Hampshire, a nonpartisan education policy nonprofit, released an analysis of SB 193, a bill to create a statewide education savings account...

Senate version of voucher bill significantly increases financial impact on local...

Late last Thursday in the State Legislature, after the House killed SB 193, the statewide voucher bill by sending it to interim study, the...

NH ranks 46th in school funding equity, according to national study

According to a Quality Counts study, New Hampshire ranked in the bottom five for equity in education, partly due to the over-reliance on local...

N.H. Attorney General: School Gun Bans Unlawful

Lebanon and other communities that have adopted firearm bans on school grounds will have to revise them to comply with a state law passed...

The state’s role in addressing bullying is limited. Should it be...

When Delanie Marcotte, a fifth grade student at Pollard Elementary School in Plaistow, NH, went before her school board to ask them to do...

House considers changes to Manifest Educational Hardship provision

The House Education Committee held a public hearing on January 30, 2018 on HB 1492, a bill that would change the law around Manifest...

Is an “adequate education” adequate for our students?

When talking about the cost of education in New Hampshire, the term “adequate education” usually comes up. But what does it mean, and how...

Educator offers six reasons “to speak out immediately and loudly against...

In a column for the Concord Monitor, educator Joe Onosko offered six reasons why New Hampshire should reject the voucher program created by SB...