Five years into the state’s education freedom account program, Republican lawmakers are expressing some interest in increasing oversight and clarity over how it operates. In an April letter to the State Board of Education, a bipartisan group of lawmakers called for the board to write more specific descriptions of which programs may receive EFA funding […]

New Hampshire’s education freedom account program was built on incrementalism. The program, which allows families sending children to private schools or home schooling to use state funds, launched in 2021 with a cap on household income equivalent to $79,500 for a family of four. As the program became popular, lawmakers increased that cap, raising it […]

After the COVID-19 pandemic upended public education, New Hampshire’s Department of Education sought a new avenue for state investment: “learning pods.”  Presented by then-Commissioner Frank Edelblut, the idea was to allow parents to send children to smaller classroom environments outside the public school system, run by “tutors,” to allow more one-to-one attention and combat learning […]