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Senate Votes Down Mandatory Civics Class

By Josh Rogers on Wednesday, June 13, 2001.

The New Hampshire Senate today killed a plan to make a semester of civics a graduation requirement in state high schools. The vote, which essentially split on party lines, came after a lively floor debate that revisited the familiar ideological split of state mandates versus local control.

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