2025 Legislative Session Recap

It was a tremendously busy session for supporters of public education. There was a lot of bad, some good and some things that we will once again have to fight next year when the legislature comes back in January. Your work and advocacy mattered this year, as was proven again this week when Gov. Ayotte vetoed the book banning bill. There is no doubt that without your voices this year would have been even more harmful laws passed for our local neighborhood public schools.  Looking back on the 2025 session we saw a lot of different bills that effect education pass

CONCORD, N.H.— Today, Governor Ayotte vetoed HB 324 which was the book banning bill. AFT-NH President Deb Howes issued the following statement:

“Today's veto of the book banning bill is a victory for Granite State public school students and their right to a robust public education. We thank Gov. Ayotte for vetoing this harmful bill and protecting the First Amendment right of students to access a wide variety of materials in their schools. This decision affirms the long-standing tradition of local control by elected school boards over policy making for our neighborhood public schools. They know

State Budget Approved

After more than a week of veto threats and infighting between Governor Ayotte and the Republican led House and Senate, a budget was finally passed this week. Even with the so-called Group II retirement fix and a fix in the funding for Manchester public schools, this budget leaves a lot to be desired.

It does nothing to fix the inadequate and unconstitutional state funding our local neighborhood public schools that leaves the robustness of a student’s public education dependent on the ability of the local property taxpayers to fill in gigantic gaps left by the state. In

State Budget Up in The Air

Governor Threatens Veto

When is a budget not a budget? When it is vetoed by the Governor!  After a week of painstaking negotiations between the House and Senate budget writers over revenue estimates and which programs would be cut and which ones spared, Governor Ayotte says she will be vetoing the Republican passed budget.

The Governor isn’t vetoing the budget because it creates a Medicaid income tax for the most vulnerable Granite Staters, that was in her budget too. She isn’t vetoing it, because it rapidly expands the unaccountable voucher program to even the richest