Education Funding

NHPR’s Julia Furukawa sits down with New Hampshire Department of Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut to talk about his vision for public education as students and teachers return to class this fall.

Launched in 2021, the program allows income-eligible parents to take state funds that would ordinarily follow their child to public school and use them for private school or home-schooling expenses.

Over half of Croydon’s registered voters attended a redo vote on Saturday to restore the town’s school budget

After a small group of Croydon voters approved a surprise measure to slash the school budget in half, high turnout is critical for residents trying to reinstate it. At stake? The public school system as they know it.

The Croydon Village School is at the center of a battle over what public education should look like, who should pay for it and whether small town democracy is working as it’s meant to.

A Republican-backed bill would narrow the definition of an “adequate education” for New Hampshire's public schools.

New Hampshire Democrats continue to seek ways to add curbs to New Hampshire’s “education freedom account” program, even as they attempt to repeal the law. And Republicans continue to counter that the program is working as designed.

Republican lawmakers are hoping to expand a voucher-like school choice program they championed in 2021, but Democratic lawmakers want to limit or repeal it.

The program, passed by Republican lawmakers earlier this year, gives families state dollars to pay for non-public school options.

Just two months after the program was passed into law, New Hampshire education freedom accounts have attracted a lot of interest, New Hampshire officials say.