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Too many of the bills being introduced in New Hampshire are quite sinister would do grave harm to students.

It wasn’t a physical school library book that sent Betsy Harrington into a state of alarm about high school reading material. It was an app.Harrington’s son, a student at Hillsboro-Deering High School, had found a book on Sora, an app that gives...

Deb McCarthy followed a family path into public education, becoming a fifth-grade teacher in the same small coastal Massachusetts town where her mother taught for more than 50 years.

It wasn’t a physical school library book that sent Betsy Harrington into a state of alarm about high school reading material. It was an app.Harrington’s son, a student at Hillsboro-Deering High School, had found a book on Sora, an app that gives...

NH House lawmakers are weighing a bill to remove staff and teachers in K-12 schools from exemptions to state obscenity laws.

Deb McCarthy followed a family path into public education, becoming a fifth-grade teacher in the same small coastal Massachusetts town where her mother taught for more than 50 years.

It’s a dispute that is becoming more common: on one side, a set of parents who oppose certain content in school reading materials; on the other, educators and opposing parents who say those objections are attempts to censor marginalized authors and topics. 

House lawmakers are weighing a bill to remove staff and teachers in K-12 schools from exemptions to state obscenity laws, potentially requiring school officials to remove books proactively or face misdemeanor charges.

Republican lawmakers are seeking to expand the eligibility for the state’s Education Freedom Accounts program that allows lower-income students to use state dollars for non-public types of education, including private and parochial schools.Meanwhile,...

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