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I hope so! II. The purpose of this act is to: a) Allow maximum freedom to parents and nonpublic schools to respond to and, without governmental control, provide for the educational needs of children, and this act shall be liberally construed to achieve that purpose. Brilliant. … ...

Last year, New Hampshire passed an exciting new school choice law.  The measure was so widely lauded that legislators overrode the governor’s veto.  It is a tax credit plan that gives New Hampshire businesses a tax deduction if they donate to a school tuition organization.  Thus, instead of that business’s tax money going into the s ...

Readers may recall that New Hampshire passed an important school choice tax credit scholarship program last year.  The law allows businesses to contribute money to scholarship programs for low-income students to attend the school of their choice (or even home school). Unfortunately, students in the state didn’t have much time to celebrate be ...

We have previously reported on New Hampshire’s Tax Credit Program — New Hampshire’s recently adopted school choice bill that gives less affluent families the opportunity to send their children to schools of their choice.  The New Hampshire Program is very similar to the Arizona plan that the United States Supreme Court held const ...

Last week PLF filed an amicus brief in an important New Hampshire school choice case.  But the valuable scholarship program currently under attack in court has also faced threats from a legislative repeal bill.  Today there is positive news on the latter front: the New Hampshire Senate Education Committee voted 3-2 in favor of an … ...

Earlier this month PLF filed an amicus brief in an important New Hampshire school choice case.  The scholarship tax credit program at issue in that lawsuit has recently been the focus of a legislative repeal effort.  Last week we learned that the New Hampshire Senate Education Committee voted 3-2 in favor of an “Inexpedient to … ...

Today the New Hampshire Superior Court issued a whopping 45-page order in the state’s education tax credit program case.  Judge John M. Lewis ruled that the program is constitutional as long as the scholarships are not used to cover educational expenses of “schools or institutions of any religious sect or denomination.”  In oth ...

When most people hear about school choice, they typically think about vouchers.  Vouchers are basically a check that parents receive from the state that they can use to send their children to private schools.  The check, or “voucher,” can be used by parents to send their children to either sectarian or secular schools.  The anti-cho ...

Today, we submitted this brief to the New Hampshire Supreme Court in support of the state’s recently enacted school choice law. Last year, the New Hampshire legislature overwhelmingly adopted a tax credit program – even overriding the governor’s veto to bring educational choice to New Hampshire students. This New Hampshire tax credit ...