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By Claudia Damon - Concord | May 15, 2021

The public doesn’t want vouchers. A national group is shoving this down New Hampshire Senators’ throats and they should beware and gag.

NHGOP Senators will undermine public schools with a massive voucher bill, SB130, which they are expected to roll into the budget to avoid legitimate consideration of the many problems it presents. They will then have joined the national movement to do away with public schools. This movement exists and doesn’t care about NH. A former lobbyist describes the movement here, tinyurl.com/2b4cjepe.

At the Senate Finance Committee hearing May 4, no one testified in favor of SB130 or rolling it into the budget. Rolling it into the budget is undemocratic (sneaky way to get it passed) and dishonorable–a bill with such significant impact needs the careful examination and discussion of the normal legislative process, not an end run around it.

The voucher plan will take money from our starving public schools and send it along with kids who go to private schools.

The voucher bill uses public money but provides for no public oversight over how private schools are run, what they teach, their admissions decisions, the qualifications of their teachers, etc.

Sponsors say this is to help children who aren’t getting what they need in public school, yet it’s available to students who have never even set foot in public school.

Public schools are the bedrock of democracy. People of all backgrounds learn to work and play together and to be citizens in a diverse community. Support them!

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