Sununu signs bill that clears way for public dollars to go to religious schools

[TexasTowelie]

Gov. Chris Sununu has signed a bill allowing public school districts to send public money to religious schools, lifting a longstanding funding barrier.

House Bill 282 changes the rules around tuition agreements – the arrangements in which public schools send students in their district to other public or private schools to address capacity problems.

Currently, if a high school student lives in a town that doesn’t have a high school in its school district, the school board can contract with a school in another district and pay “tuition.” The agreement can be made between public or private schools, but the schools must be nonsectarian.

HB 282, which takes effect Aug. 5, removes the nonsectarian requirement, allowing the school district to contract with religious schools as well. Those schools must still be approved by the sending district’s school board.

Read more: https://newhampshirebulletin.com/briefs/sununu-signs-bill-that-clears-way-for-public-dollars-to-go-to-religious-schools/

[Laffy Kat]

1. WTF?

This really bothers me.

[The Wizard]

2. Tax exemption should be suspended.

A tax exempt entity shouldn't get special treatment based on a belief in an invisible sky hero.

[TheBlackAdder]

3. Time for some Muslim schools to open in New Hampshire. Heck, do Satanic & FSM churched have schools?

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This could be the perfect way to have learn at home and have it paid for by taxpayers.

The RW remote schools get a large percentage of money for teleclasses and at-home programs.


This is going to totally fuck over taxpayers, as people moving to these other schools will pull just enough people that the regular schools so they can't consolidate classrooms, keeping their costs the same, but losing out on $16-18K per child in tuition and busing.

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[Bluepinky]

4. Sununu has passed some really bad provisions this year,

including new abortion restrictions and this. The Republicans have tried to pass this “religious freedom” law for years. All it’s going to do is further erode state funding of public education, which has been woefully inadequate for decades. NH is last in the country for state support of public colleges; property taxes are very high to support public education at the local level, because state funding is so low. This ruling is a win for the conservative minority and wealthy citizens who utilize private and religious schools, and a loss for most of the rest.
NH currently has a Republican governor and state legislature, which is why all these things have passed. Sununu is planning to possibly run against Maggie Hassan for US Senate.

[Deuxcents]

5. 3..2..1 I see lawsuits coming

[Mopar151]

6. Sunnunu sold out? or "Sold out from the cradle?"

The Tea Party caucus went "full ALEC" with this year's budget, and neither the Dems, or moderate Republicans (there are a few left here..) had enuff sand to stop them. Sununu was focused on COVID response, and, IMHO, could have done a lot more to hold off our little state becoming a suburb of Alabama.