The state funding formula is designed to cover the gap between local revenue and the amount necessary to have quality schools in each community. Charter schools, like Epic, receive no local tax revenue and nearly all funding comes from the state.
Hilbert said preventing a sustained windfall to Epic is one of the reasons he proposed the measure.
“The district with the most to lose is Epic, because they got as high as 60,000 students at one point, and they’ll be able to use that for two years after this year if we don’t change the law,” Hilbert said on the House floor Wednesday.
Pro-Union parade draws more than 50 people
Havre Daily News/Colin Thompson
A car with a Union Strong poster participates Friday on First Street in Havre in a parade supporting unions and opposing right-to-work legislation in the Legislature
Havre saw a Union Strong Car Parade and Celebration last Friday evening, with almost 50 cars, many with more than one occupant, drive through Havre in support of local union workers in response to right-to-work bills making their way through the Montana Legislature. The event saw participants from the Teamsters, the Montana Federation of Public Employees, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way, and others drive through town with vehicles adorned with the logos of their unions, honking in support as they made their way east on First Stre.
Proposed bills focus on free speech in N.H. schools
The New Hampshire State House in Concord on Oct. 4, 2018 Sarah Pearson
Published: 2/26/2021 5:55:44 PM
Lawmakers in the New Hampshire State House are considering several bills aimed at protecting students free speech and curtailing what their sponsors see as liberal political bias in schools.
House Bill 234 would establish rules for protecting First Amendment rights of students and speakers on campus.
Much of the bill s language is drawn from model policies penned by the conservative Washington, D.C.- based American Legislative Exchange Council.
Ben Mickens, a vice chair of the N.H. College Republicans and student at Saint Anselm College, told lawmakers that New Hampshire needs to take a bolder step in protecting students like him.
From the Left: GOP s deficit problem and The Big Lie
Vicki Bush
Supplementing college payments, I took on a 48-hour weekend job placing myself smack dab in the middle of real-world life and death circumstances.
A world of coercion. A world of threat and destructive force. A world of small-minded heavy fisted liars, bullies, and abusers. Their victims, coming from all walks of life, fled to the security and protection of “safe houses” – much like the one I worked at – run by my religious district, or local diocese.
More often than not, my job included taking bruised and battered “client” casualties to, or picking them up from, curtained off hospital emergency room cubicles after stitches were applied to heads and split lips, an eye pushed back into its socket, or a cast set onto fractured bones.