The motivation for private charter schools in New Hampshire for some people is based on the notion that public schools are failing and will benefit from competition. U. S. News just published its ranking of states in pre K – 12 education.NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) scores rank NH students

as 4 th in the United States in reading and 5 th in Mathematics. The overall ranking for NH was 4th in the nation slightly behind Massachusetts which finished 2 nd overall. Its pretty difficult to understand how competing with private schools without a coherent curriculum and teachers who may or may not be certified would be beneficial to anyone. There is also no discussion on how these charter schools will be held accountable for student achievement results or whether they will participate in state standardized testing. The current right wing attacks on the credibility of public schools will do great harm by unnecessarily draining financial support from our public schools.