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State House 08-2024

Contact Governor Ayotte Now

Oppose SB 101 (Open Enrollment)

The full House meets this week and will vote on SB 101- the open enrollment bill. To recap where this bill stands, if you choose to be an open enrollment student, the state will pay the district to transfer into at least $9,000 towards your education. 

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AFT-NH Statement

“The majority of the House Education Policy Committee failed Granite State public school students by rushing through a statewide open enrollment proposal without doing the hard work required to make it fair and workable for all public school students. 

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State House 08-2024

Need for Action on Open Enrollment – Oppose SB 101

Contact Governor Ayotte

We now have less than two months until the end of the legislative session. We will see more bills being voted on by their committees and then by the full House or Senate in the coming weeks as they get through the rest of the bills. 

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State House 08-2024

Open Enrollment.  The House Education Policy and Administration Committee concluded the second day of public hearings on SB 101, Open Enrollment, and again encountered overwhelming opposition to the bill. After two days of testimony, only ten people spoke in favor of the bill. Opposition dominated the hearings. School board members, administrators, teachers, special education advocates, local property taxpayers, and many others expressed serious concerns about the proposed bill and amendment and the havoc which would result in our local schools.

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State House 08-2024

SB 101 OPEN ENROLLMENT HEARING RESUMES ON APRIL 1ST

Open enrollment continues to dominate the education space in the State House with a new amendment and scheme introduced this week. Basically, instead of using local property taxpayers to directly pay for a student to attend a public school in a different district, the amendment provides open enrollment students with twice the state adequacy aid than is received for students enrolled in their own school district. The state is now offering to pay twice the adequacy amount if you want to attend a charter or if you want to go to a different public

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AFT-NH Statement

Governor Kelly Ayotte’s signing of HB 1815 is a direct blow to New Hampshire’s public-school students. The bill tries to rewrite the state’s constitutional duty to fund public education without fixing the broken system that already leaves New Hampshire last in the nation for its share of school funding.

Instead of delivering real support to students in property-poor districts, HB 1815 lets the state walk away from decades of court rulings and deepens inequities for students and taxpayers alike. Every single Granite State child deserves a fair, fully funded public education in their local

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