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New Hampshire lawmakers have already filed 1,036 requests for bills for the 2024 legislative session – hundreds more than in recent years. And because of legislative rules, each bill is guaranteed a hearing, a committee vote, and a vote on the House or Senate floor.
New Hampshire school districts have been competing to retain and recruit new teachers for years. But some say schools in rural areas of the state are facing bigger challenges than others.
In a pair of rulings on two separate lawsuits, Judge David Ruoff of Rockingham County Superior Court found the state is not meeting its obligations to provide students an “adequate” education. In one ruling, Ruoff found the current $4,100 base adequacy rate — the minimum amount of money the state sends to public schools for each student — is not enough to meet the state’s constitutional requirement to provide an adequate education.
In theory, Jim Riddle is as ready as any New Hampshire farmer to try his hand at cannabis if the
Now, Whaland is a superintendent of School Administrative Unit 13, covering the towns of Madison, Tamworth, and Freedom. And the staffing headaches are no longer theoretical. While two of his three schools are currently fully staffed, the shortage of paraprofessionals and support staff often requires teachers to take on additional work to bridge the gaps.
New Hampshire lawmakers are attempting a new way to increase housing in the state: expanding accessory dwelling units.
This month, a new annual report laid bare exactly how prohibitive. The 245-page analysis by New Hampshire Housing, the state’s housing authority, delivers a clear message. New Hampshire needs far more housing units than previously indicated, and the current rate of development is not going to cut it.
Online poker is illegal in New Hampshire, and most of the rest of the United States. But many find ways to do it anyway, experts say.
Addressing Gov. Chris Sununu’s budget director, officials with DHHS argued that the state had been underfunding the shelters in the state for years. Currently, the state allocates just under $5 million in state funds per year; the department asked Sununu to fund them at $12 million per year in his next proposed budget.
Over a three-hour process packed with floor amendments, representatives quibbled around the edges and made some changes. What emerged, however, was a bipartisan agreement that raises Medicaid rate increases above what Gov. Chris Sununu asked for, includes an increase in targeted aid to public schools, adds new curbs on gubernatorial emergency powers, removes a proposed expansion to the “education freedom account” program, expands eligibility for free and reduced-price lunches in schools, and keeps proposed raises for state employees.