The New Hampshire chapter of the National Education Association is supporting a vaccine requirement for teachers, reversing an earlier position as cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19 continue to climb.In a statement Friday, NEA New Hampshire said.
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An EFA bill was introduced in the GOP-controlled House earlier this year and failed to receive enough votes to get out of committee. (NHJournal)
A new study from the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, a New Hampshire-based free-market think tank, finds Educational Freedom Accounts (EFAs) could save Granite State taxpayers more than $6.5 million the first two years.
The study of the impact of legislation, like New Hampshire s SB130, also found EFA s would produce $30.6 million in higher lifetime earnings for students while generating nearly $13 million in economic benefits for New Hampshire.
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EFAs allow families to take the state portion of the school funding that would have been spent on their children and invest it in other educational choices, from sending kids to a public school in a different district to public charters to private education and even homeschooling. Around 30 percent of Granite State students would be eligible for an EFA under the Senate