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Bans teaching of CRT, LGBTQ+ topics, "Marxist analyses" — with $10K lawsuits and loss of teaching licenses.

TL;DR: Named after Charlie Kirk. Lets any parent sue a school for up to $10,000 and get a teacher's license revoked for teaching about systemic racism, LGBTQ+ identities, or anything deemed "identity-based ideology." Critics including the NH Attorney General's office argue the vague terms invite abuse and are unconstitutionally broad. Passed the House 184–164 and is now in the Senate.

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Commission to study converting ALL public schools to charter schools. Also lowers charter conversion threshold from 2/3 to simple majority.

TL;DR: Sponsored by House Majority Leader Osborne, who openly says it would make public education funding debates "go away." That's because it would eliminate traditional public schools entirely. The bill also sneaks in a change from 2/3 majority to simple majority for converting to charter, AND moves the vote from town meeting to the general election — where it's easier to pass with less community scrutiny. This is the free-state endgame: dismantle public education from the ground up.

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Declares education funding is a "shared" state-local responsibility — overriding court rulings that the state must pay more.

TL;DR: Courts have repeatedly ruled that NH underfunds public education and the state bears that obligation (Claremont decisions, 1993/1997; ConVal ruling, 2023). This bill is the legislature's middle finger to those rulings — redefining the law to claim towns share the burden equally. Translation: property-poor towns stay screwed, and the state keeps ducking its constitutional obligation. Passed despite overwhelming opposition and is now in the Senate.

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Creates a "revolving loan fund" for struggling schools — but forces districts to open the door to universal vouchers.

TL;DR: Marketed as help for cash-strapped districts like Claremont, this bill lets struggling schools borrow up to 75% of their state education aid — but the catch is poisonous. Any district that takes the loan must allow ALL parents in the district to obtain Education Freedom Accounts regardless of income. It's predatory lending meets voucher expansion: here's money you desperately need, but the price is opening the door for your funding to be drained away permanently.

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Redefines "cost of adequate education" to EXCLUDE school nurses and superintendent services.

TL;DR: A judge ruled the state underfunds education at ~$4,200/pupil — roughly half what it should be. Instead of increasing funding, this bill strips items from the list of what counts as "adequate." No school nurses in the state funding formula. No superintendent services. Also removes the requirement that the legislature review adequacy costs every 10 years. It's a backdoor way to keep funding low by redefining what schools need. Passed the House 10-8 on party lines and is now in the Senate.

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Imposes mandatory biennial tax cap votes and caps school district budgets based on inflation/enrollment formulas.

TL;DR: Forces every school district to vote on a tax cap every two years. Caps budgets at the previous year's spending times average inflation over 5 years, or based on student enrollment changes. Sounds "reasonable" until you realize school costs (special education, insurance, heating oil) regularly outpace general inflation. This is designed to slowly strangle school budgets over time, making cuts inevitable. Also restricts central office administrative spending.

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Massively expands school material restrictions — any parent complaint can restrict books, lessons, speakers, artwork, and displays.

TL;DR: SB 33 was the test run — SB 434 is the real thing. This bill radically expands the definition of restricted "materials" beyond books to include textbooks, classroom instruction, plays, artwork, displays, health curricula, visiting speakers, and any printed or visual content. Districts must create a formal complaint process where a single parent complaint can restrict material for ALL students. Terms like "harmful to minors," "age-inappropriate," and "otherwise offensive" are left deliberately undefined. This is an industrial-scale book-banning machine.

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Lets EFA (voucher) students attend their public school district — but the district gets NO reimbursement.

TL;DR: Education Freedom Accounts already divert public money to private schools. This bill would let those same students come back and use public school resources without the district receiving any state funding for them. Schools would bear the cost of educating these students out of local property taxes alone. It's a one-two punch: take the state money away, then send the kid back and make the town pay anyway. The committee recommended it pass with an amendment — this one is moving.

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Repeals the $15 million child care grant program — eliminating workforce recruitment funding for child care workers.

TL;DR: NH already has a child care crisis — there aren't enough providers, and the ones that exist can't hire because the pay is so low. The legislature allocated $15 million for workforce recruitment and retention grants. This bill repeals that funding. At a time when the federal government cut off TANF funding for child care, the state's response is to also pull its own funding. Working parents across NH will pay the price, and the ripple effects hit schools when kids show up without adequate early childhood preparation.

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Enables Derry to absorb the Derry Cooperative School District as a town department.

TL;DR: Allows the Town of Derry (which has a tax cap) to incorporate the Derry Cooperative School District (which doesn't have one) as a town department. The concern is that this would subject the school district to Derry's municipal tax cap, effectively capping school spending. Impact on Hooksett students attending Pinkerton is unclear. This is a local bill but fits the broader pattern of using tax caps to constrain school budgets.

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Declaring the directives of the judicial branch in the Claremont cases that the legislative and executive branches define an "adequate education," adopt "standards of accountability," and "guarantee adequate funding" of a public education are not binding on the legislative and executive branches.

TL;DR: Declares that the NH Supreme Court's landmark Claremont decisions requiring the legislature to define and fund adequate education are not binding. Would effectively reject the court's authority on education funding, a foundational issue in NH politics.

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Prohibiting student identification cards from being used as photo identification for purposes of obtaining a ballot.

TL;DR: Would prohibit the use of student ID cards as valid photo identification for voting. This would make it harder for college students to vote, disproportionately affecting young voters in NH's many college towns.

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