New Hampshire House Education Committee hearing on HB 1413

Yesterday, 1/26/12, the House Education Committee voted to pass out of committee HB 1413, mandating that New Hampshire withdraw from any participation in No Child Left Behind. According to the Department of Education, the result will be that New Hampshire will lose $61 million in federal funding for education in Fiscal Year 2012 and a similar amount each year thereafter.

In introducing his bill to the New Hampshire House Education Committee, Representative Michael Weeden (R, Dover), the Prime Sponsor, said, (00:45) "I was in 5th grade when this bill passed and I saw first hand the ineffectiveness of this bill to lay standards of education - at a high cost to the cities and towns of the state because they don't provide adequate funding for their requests."

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