Shortly after the New Hampshire Senate moved to water down the House’s “campus carry” bill that would allow college students to carry firearms, Rep. Sam Farrington, the bill’s sponsor, declared the fight wasn’t over. “We still have some time to work this out,” Farrington, a Rochester Republican, wrote on social media earlier this month, vowing […]

In 2025, the New Hampshire House and Senate split their education committees in two. One committee handled education policy related bills and the other education finance bills; leaders said the division was necessary to manage heavy workloads. This year, that instinct appears justified. Republican lawmakers have churned out a deluge of bills affecting public schools, […]

Four months after the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the arrival of House Republicans’ CHARLIE Act in January quickly drew attention.  Officially named the “Countering Hate And Revolutionary Leftist Indoctrination in Education (CHARLIE) Act,” the state bill paid homage to Kirk, the conservative activist assassinated at a rally in September. And it sought to […]

New Hampshire House Republicans are moving forward with a new attempt to regulate teaching on race, history, and LGTBQ+ issues in public schools. On Thursday, the chamber passed a bill that would ban certain types of instruction and punish teachers who carried it out. Known as the CHARLIE Act and named after the conservative activist […]