Sununu signs bill that clears way for public dollars to go to religious schools [View all]
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.
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