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The ConVal Education Funding Trial … What The NHGOP Should Do, But Won’t, Because The NHGOP Is Controlled Opposition

May 4, 2023 Ed Mosca

This is the third in a series of posts on the ConVal education-funding trial. For your ease of reference, the first was THE CONVAL EDUCATION FUNDING LAWSUIT … ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHNNY-WOKE TELLS THE COURT: THE STATE IS ONLY A LITTLE BIT PREGNANT and the second, HEY PATHETIC NHGOP … CONVAL IS AN ACTUAL ATTACK ON OUR … Read more

Hey Pathetic NHGOP … ConVal Is An Actual Attack On Our Democracy … And You Are AWOL

May 2, 2023 Ed Mosca

So, dear NHGOP, let me pose the following question to you: HOW MUCH DOES AN “ADEQUATE” TEACHER COST? And now, dear NHGOP, a follow-up question: IS DETERMINING THE COST OF AN “ADEQUATE” TEACHER A LEGAL QUESTION OR A POLITICAL QUESTION?

The ConVal Education Funding Lawsuit … Attorney General Johnny-Woke Tells The Court: The State Is Only A Little Bit Pregnant

May 1, 2023 Ed Mosca

According to Attorney General Johnny-Woke, courts can AND SHOULD determine whether “the State” is “fully funding” an “adequate education,” as long as they don’t try to determine how much it costs to “fully fund” an “adequate education.” I kid you not … from New Hampshire Business Review: Attorney General Formella’s team is not seeking to … Read more

Did COVID Shutdowns Affect NH Student Performance?

August 4, 2023April 11, 2023 Jody Underwood

A popular narrative is that the COVID pandemic shutdowns made things worse for public schools, so we should cut them some slack. But there are two problems with this.

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Vermont Lawmakers Look For Ways to Keep Kids From Attending Religious Schools

April 9, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Vermont has a squishy Republican governor and veto-proof majorities of Dems in its legislature. Team Blue is looking for a workaround to Carson v. Makin which forbids a state with a tuitioning program from discriminating against children who might want to spend it at faith-based schools.

So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (04/06/23)?

April 7, 2023 Judy Aron

So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (04/06/23)? We learned that India and NH have good business relations. The Ambassador from India, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, was warmly welcomed to House chambers at the start of House Session, with members of the Senate in attendance. He spoke about the great work India … Read more

So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (03/22/23)?

March 23, 2023 Judy Aron

We learned that in 7 ½ hours House was able to get through 53 bills, but only by tabling 30 of them. Yes, it was a Table extravaganza! In fact, when Rep. Matt Simon (R- Littleton) motioned to Table HB507 (the occupational and professional licensing bill) he did so by saying. “The Table is rapidly … Read more

The Three Letters That Strike Fear in the Hearts of Teachers’ Unions and Public Schools

March 21, 2023 Op-Ed

Three letters strike fear in the hearts of teachers’ unions and public schools in our state—three letters that arouse hatred and animosity in our teachers: EFA. Educational Freedom Accounts.

D.E.I. Must Die or a Loved One Might.

November 12, 2024March 20, 2023 Jim Betti

November 1980: New York City’s WASHINGTON HEIGHTS – The Columbia Medical School applicant was walking out of the parking garage. A semi-comatose man lay across the sidewalk. People gave him no notice and walked by and over him.

Where Li’l Debby Altschiller Hates on Low-Income Women

March 11, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Democrat Debra Altschiller was recently quoted as referring to schooling anywhere but the blessed government-run schools as “sending our students to siloed and unregulated institutions of indoctrination.”

The Problem With Education Freedom Accounts

March 5, 2023March 5, 2023 Ed Mosca

Remember the rationale we were given for trading with and investing in China? In case you forgot … supposedly, this trade and investment would lead to China becoming less authoritarian and more democratic. How did that work out? Rhetorical question, of course.

New Hampshire Funds Public Education The Same Way DC Funds The War in Ukraine

March 2, 2023 Ed Mosca

So I put up this facetious post pointing out the hypocrisy of the self-proclaimed “fiscal conservatives” in the NHGOP who are railing (pun intended) about commuter rail to Boston … while ignoring all the waste, fraud and corruption in funding public education and the blank check to the Ukraine … Damn Right We Should Build … Read more

Our Education System is a Failed State

February 24, 2023 Ray Cardello

Our education system is costing more and producing less every year. In my small town, the Tax Rate is $24.75 / thousand, with Education accounting for $18.00. That is 73% of every tax dollar earmarked for schools giving us lower test scores yearly.

So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (Feb 22-23)?

February 24, 2023February 24, 2023 Judy Aron

We learned that when Republicans show up and stay for the session, we can stop bad bills and move along good ones. That was the main theme throughout the 2-day voting marathon. Apparently, we were still unable to stop some very bad bills, too (read on).

So Kids, What Did We Learn From Tuesday’s House Session (02/14/23)?

February 16, 2023February 15, 2023 Judy Aron

We learned that attendance is everything this term. You can’t win if you don’t have the numbers. All eyes are on the whip! We learned that the Speaker of the House voted more today than he did in total in the past 2 years! There’s probably a Speaker vote record being made!

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Another Great Leap Backward: Biology Was Already Sexist, And Now It’s Ableist!

January 20, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Biology was already in trouble. Identity Politics Zealots proselytizing their Marxist cultural mythology put them on notice over the gender thing. But if an organism’s structures do not classify its status, there can be no science, only faith. Oh, and evolution is ableist!

By 2025 Teachers Must Swear Loyalty Oath to Progressive gods, Preach SEL, CRT, and Childhood Mutilation.

January 10, 2023 Steve MacDonald

While several states have outlawed teaching divisive concepts like, you are a racist becasue you are white, and there’s nothing you can do about it, Minnesota is taking it the other way. Educators in any school (public, charter, or private) in Minnesota will be expected to preach cultural Marxism.

New Hampshire’s Cost per Pupil Continues to Rise

January 7, 2023 Op-Ed

CONCORD, NH (Jan. 6, 2023) — New data shows that New Hampshire’s average cost per student is shifting closer to typical trends following a substantial spike during the pandemic, however the costs are still rising more quickly than they have historically.

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Using Outrage to Protect Incompetence

December 28, 2022 Ian Underwood

I recently had lunch with a group of people who are concerned about the problems that we’re having with public schools, and who wanted to discuss ways to do something about those problems.

Put Schools on an Elimination Diet

December 19, 2022 Ian Underwood

There is something called an ‘elimination diet,’ which people use to find out what foods their bodies have trouble processing. You start by cutting out everything but one food — typically beef, because you can stay healthy indefinitely eating just beef. It’s boring but sustainable.