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Program will let New Hampshire students use tax dollars to fund private schooling, other costs Education freedom accounts will be form of school choice Share Updated: 8:29 PM EDT Jun 28, 2021 Education freedom accounts will be form of school choice Share Updated: 8:29 PM EDT Jun 28, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript STUDENTS, FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS. ADAM: SCHOOL CHOICE WILL SOON BE A REALITY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. STUDENTS FROM HOUSEHOLDS MAKING $79,500 OR LESS WILL BE LEOAB ACCESS TAX DOLLARS, AROUND 4060 DOLLARS ON AVERAGE, THAT FUND THEIR SCHOOLING TO USE IN THE WAY THEY SEE FIT TO GO TO ANOTHER SCHOOL, PRIVATE OR PUBLIC, OR TO PAY FOR EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES LIKE BOOKS OR TUTORING. MY PHONE’S RINGING OFTHF HOOK ALREADY WITH PEOPLE ASKING HOW IT WILL WORK, WHICH IS ACTUALLY QUITE SIMPLE, AND WTHA WILL HAPPEN, AND THERE’S QUITE A FEW STEPS THAT HAVE TO HAPPEN BETWEEN NOW AND WHENT I LAUNCHES. AD:AM KATE BAKER DEMERS ....
Potential cost of New Hampshire school voucher bill raises questions about Ed Department's data nhbr.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nhbr.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Instead of a solution to the decades long structural failure to fund our public schools, State Reps. David Luneau, Dick Ames, and Marjorie Porter propose a cruel band-aid. Here’s how their House Bill 504 works: Those citizens struggling to pay the. ....
CONCORD â The House budget writing committee heard no opposition to maintaining current levels of state aid to school districts at a public hearing Tuesday. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, student enrollment and the method the state uses to determine the number of students who live in poverty are significantly lower than a year ago. The lower enrollments would result in school districts losing about $90 million in state aid. House Bill 623 would have the state distribute the same amount of education aid in the next two fiscal years, 2022 and 2023, as it distributes this fiscal year, 2021. Lawmakers increased state aid to education by $178 million in the biennial budget approved in September 2019 by returning stabilization grants to their original level and providing additional aid to property poor districts and those with a greater number of low-income families. ....
Dan Tuohy / NHPR A group of New Hampshire communities is organizing against potential efforts by lawmakers to resurrect a model of funding public education that redistributes money from “donor towns” to poorer school districts. The burgeoning group has roots in The Coalition Communities, an initiative spearheaded by the city of Portsmouth 20 years ago to fight how the state raised and distributed its statewide education property tax. That Coalition, along with Republican lawmakers, successfully pushed for a funding formula that allows property-rich towns to keep all the money raised through their statewide property tax and spend it on their local school district, rather than send it to property-poor towns with a lower tax base, as was originally intended. ....