IMPORTANT: OPPOSE HB1610: This bill requires all students to participate in standardized statewide assessments.
The Education Freedom Account (EFA) is one of the current school choice programs in NEW Hampshire. Make no mistake about this one: if this legislation is passed, it essentially allows the GOVT/STATE to control our private, religious, and home schools. HOW? By requiring all children to take the STATE Standardized Test.
HB 1610 is overreaching because it is not limited to EFA participants. All school-aged children in “all learning environments” would be required to take the statewide assessment.
THIS IS A THREAT TO EVERY PRIVATE, RELIGIOUS, and HOME-SCHOOL family in New Hampshire!!
It MUST be STOPPED!
Currently, students who participate in the school choice program(EFA) can take the standardized test offered at their private, religious, or home school. This legislation would change that. All students would have to take the STATE standardized test, which is COMMON CORE ALIGNED.
In Indiana and Ohio, when children used their vouchers to attend private and religious schools and were forced to take the STATE standardized test, those schools began aligning their curriculum to Common Core. This is a de facto takeover of our private and religious schools!
There is NO authentic choice if everything is Common Core!! There is NO freedom of CHOICE when the STATE forces its Standardized TEST on the kids using the EFA program to attend a private, religious, or home school.
EVERY PARENT who utilizes the EFA program for their children, or whose child attends a private, religious school, NEEDS to attend this hearing! Their children already take a standardized test given by their private or religious school. They do NOT need to take the dumbed-down Common Core assessment.
LOOK at the ten dumbest Common Core math problems here. The private, religious, and home-school families will be forced to teach Common Core math. We already have a crisis of illiteracy in math and science !! This will only get worse.
ATTEND the hearing on 03/04/2024 at 12:30 pm Legislative Office Building room 205-207
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Tell the House Education Committee to ITL HB1610.
If you cannot make this important hearing, please send an email to the committee asking them to ITL HB1610.
HouseEducationCommittee@leg.state.nh.us
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