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Doris Hohensee 
Since at least 2000, our governors have knowingly usurped the Executive Council’s power to nominate judges. Courts are an essential branch of government, but we’ve learned the hard way that our rights are no longer sacrosanct in the NH courts. Nominating and appointing the best judges is critically important. The NH Constitution says that all … Read more
Funding should not be the defining issue in public education. But it is, because the state government is addicted to federal funds and imposes endless mandates on school districts. Many of these mandates aren’t fully funded, in violation of Article 28-a Part 1 of the NH Constitution. Taxpayers are screaming about skyrocketing property taxes. The … Read more
The NH Department of Education (DOE) collects hundreds of data points on every pre-K to 12 grade student in public school, plus 10,000 Education Freedom Account students attending private and home schools. The data is entered into a Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) and then shared with the federal government and other “designated” private researchers … Read more
With State Funding Comes State Regulation Every recipient of a state-funded Education Freedom Account (EFA) is considered to be a “public education student”, even if they attend a private school, according to our former Commissioner of Education. This is because public money is being used to fund their non-public education. A unique student identifier number … Read more
The Bill of Rights in the NH state constitution was written to protect citizens from state establishment of religious values, attitudes, and beliefs. In Part 1, the founders tried to protect Inalienable Rights of Conscience in Art. 4, Religious Freedom in Art. 5, and to tolerate a variety of sects and denominations without compelling anyone … Read more
No one’s left to defend educational freedom, except for a motley group of independent, unfunded homeschoolers teaching their kids at home. Given that they broke free of centralized control and approvals of their home programs, many have a healthy mistrust of state control over education. Most folks never read, or understood, history. They simply trust … Read more
State legislators have a limited understanding of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) mandates which have been imposed upon our public schools. They deal with many issues and it’s difficult to research each one in detail. Nor is it likely that legislators realize that federal ESSA mandates are already in place and ready to be … Read more
In 1993 the NH Supreme Court discovered a “hidden-in-plain-sight” constitutional “duty” of our State “legislators” to “cherish,” i.e, fund, an “adequate” education in “public schools.” Historically public schools were locally funded. Despite two ongoing lawsuits disputing the amount of State funding necessary for this obligation, legislators now propose to expand taxpayer obligations to fund both … Read more
Rep. Rick Ladd, Chairman of the House Education Funding Committee, argues that Universal Education Savings Accounts (EFAs) are needed because: A “one size fits all” system of education is not the best learning environment for all students. (House Calendar No. 15, March 7, 2025, HB 115 on pg. 13) Chairman Ladd knows exactly why public … Read more
What’s to be done? Parents are distraught, school district budgets and property taxes are skyrocketing, and there’s bullying and declining academic outcomes in public schools. State legislators shrug their shoulders. They don’t know what to do. Most of them don’t even think they’re responsible for the mess. It “just happened.” But the problem is “so … Read more
D.O.G.E. just cut $900 million from an agency, the Institute for Education Sciences (IES), which tracks American student data. Did the cuts go deep enough to eliminate funding for the State Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) ? This system tracks student data from all fifty states, despite the fact that the federal government has no constitutional … Read more
Many people are giving up on public schools. Districts demand more and more money; student proficiency keeps dropping; and federal mandates keep stacking up, distracting students away from academics and towards social-emotional learning, behavior modification, and other federal agendas. Rather than fix the public schools, some prefer universal Education Freedom Accounts, really vouchers, without any … Read more
Parents recently testified to the legislature that public schools are not “safe” or “suitable” for their children. That’s because the state has bribed public schools, using taxpayer dollars, to implement every education fad from restorative justice, which results in widespread discipline and bullying problems, to social emotional learning, which replaces academic instruction with behavior modification. … Read more
HB 115-FN – Universal eligibility for the Education Freedom Account program Parents are frustrated with public schools. Rightly so. The state legislature has destroyed them with costly and controversial regulations, resulting in high property taxes and no voice in our public schools. The legislature accepted federal bribes on an ongoing basis to implement “standards-based learning,” … Read more
Contrary to what Rep. Dan McGuire writes, the proposed rule change to allow committees to table bills without a hearing is a transparent attempt to block the people’s voice. More insidiously, it can be used to shut down what leadership considers “extremist” positions within their own party. A 75% vote in committee to “table” a … Read more
Some members of the legislature believe that public schools are no longer “fixable.” They want universal state-funded spending accounts to allow all students, rich or poor, to escape public schools. They call it “school choice,” but it’s really an insidious transfer of power to the state. Yes, public schools are a uniform mess, but the … Read more
It’s age discrimination to require sheriffs to retire at 70 years of age while extending judges’ retirement age to 75. A retired judge who lost sight of equal treatment before the law initiated this ballot question. Now you can plainly see what an elitist cabal our judiciary is. What’s also troubling is that voters aren’t fully informed. They aren’t … Read more
There is no upside to electing Kelly Ayotte over Joyce Craig. Ayotte will maneuver with stealth in favor of anti-freedom policies and will be difficult for many Republicans to go against. Those same policies initiated by Craig would be resoundingly opposed by Republicans. Donald Trump has been continually battling establishment Republicans. There are many, including Gov. Sununu, … Read more
Don’t vote for Ayotte . . . unless she recants what she wrote in her 2019 pandemic book: Ending the Cycle of Crisis and Complacency in U.S. Global Health Security. In her book Ayotte discusses the need to: Much of so-called “misinformation” that was censored during the 2020 Covid pandemic turned out to be quite accurate. … Read more
In her book on pandemic planning, “Ending the Cycle of Crisis and Complacency in U.S. Global Health Security,” Ayotte supports state censorship of social media. This book was written before the pandemic! You can look for yourself. She mentions “disinformation” seven times, promoting the need for state censorship. “…the credibility of the scientific and medical … Read more