Last year, Republican legislators in New Hampshire and dozens of other states established important beachheads in their war for the heart and soul of American governance.
Editor’s Note: This story was first published on New Hampshire Bulletin.A bill to prohibit New Hampshire teachers from advocating for theories “promoting a negative account or representation of the founding and history of the United States of America”.
A bill to prohibit New Hampshire teachers from advocating for theories “promoting a negative account or representation of the founding and history of the United States of America” appears unlikely to advance this year after the House Education Committee recommended it be killed Tuesday.
In recent years, extremists in charge of New Hampshire’s Republican Party, with Gov. Chris Sununu’s blessing, have drastically cut state funding for public education, adopted the most expansive school voucher program in the country, taken steps to double the number of charter schools in the state, and found a variety of ways to steer public funds away from our local public schools to unaccountable, sometimes for-profit, often unlicensed private alternatives.