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AFT-NH President Statement on Senate Passage of State Budget

Senate Passed State Budget Expands Vouchers, Raises Property Taxes

AFT-NH President Deb Howes

CONCORD, N.H.— Today, the New Hampshire Senate passed their version of the state budget which mandates universal school vouchers, lowering educational outcomes and raising property taxes. AFT-NH President Deb Howes released the following statement:

“Expanding the school voucher program to the ultra-wealthy is a disservice to every Granite State property taxpayer. Educational outcomes from the voucher program are at best unproven, and all the data we have from other states shows that students who take

AFT-NH Legislative Bulletin (May 30, 2025)

Final State Budget Approval Approaching

Contact the Senate Finance Committee

Work on all bills is approaching the final round in Concord. All committee hearings and executive sessions (except for Senate Finance which we will get to in a minute) are now complete. There will be votes on the remaining bills by the full House and Senate next week and then they will set Committee of Conferences to meet starting on the 16^th to see if they can work out their differences on bills that either chamber has amended. While we are close to the end, we still have a lot of unanswered questions, mostly due to the budget still being worked on.

NH AFL-CIO 2025 Scholarship Opportunities (Deadline: August 1, 2025)

This year, in honor of Sister Linda Horan, the NH AFL-CIO will again award scholarship assistance. Members in good standing of an affiliated local union, their spouses, children, grandchildren, stepchildren, or legal wards are encouraged to apply.

AFT-NH Legislative Bulletin (May 23, 2025)

Universal School Voucher Bills in House and Senate Finance Committees

Take Action on Book Ban

We are in our last month of the legislative session in Concord. While there are still a lot of key votes to be taken and then the Governor will have to act on all of the bills the legislature passes, the legislature still has some key votes we are monitoring closely.

Next Week the House and Senate Finance Committees will have to take action on their irresponsible, unreasonable and unproven school voucher program. House Finance needs to approve the Senate version of universal school vouchers. Senate

AFT-NH Legislative Bulletin (May 16, 2025)

Book Ban Passes in Senate and Heads to Governor Ayotte

Please Take Action Now

The extremist majority in Concord was at it again this week, undermining students’ ability to get the robust public education they have a right to in our public schools. This week the Senate passed HB 324, a bill that would make it easier to remove books and classroom materials from public schools by categorizing them as obscene, age-inappropriate or harmful to minors. The terms in the bill are vague and entirely subjective. Similar bills in other states have led to the removal of dictionaries from school libraries

AFT-NH Testimony in Opposition of HB 520 (Relative to Authorizing Hearing Officers of the Department of Education to Issue Subpoenas)

This totally unnecessary bill creates the false and frankly insulting impression that we have rampant problems with extremely serious educator misconduct in so many of our public schools that it can only be solved by granting unprecedented investigatory power to the head of the Department of Education, through his hearing officers! Let me be clear, nobody wants the kind of person who would hurt students to stay in a position where they can ever do it again, whether that is as an educator, a volunteer, a sports coach, a clergy person or any other adult a child might encounter.