Children Are Not Creatures of the State: New Hampshire Edition

Children Are Not Creatures of the State: New Hampshire Edition

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By Vicki Alger  • 
Wednesday October 21, 2015 12:44 PM PST 

Politicians across the country like to claim that they’re all in
favor of local control of education—until parents and their locally
elected officials actually start trying to exercise it.


The small New Hampshire town of Croydon is a case in point.


Like many small towns in New Hampshire, Croydon does not have public
schools to serve all grade levels so it contracts with education
providers in neighboring towns. At issue now is the Croydon School
Board’s decision to allow five elementary students to attend the neighboring Newport Montessori School. As Watchdog.org’s Steve Mac Donald explains:

State law allows towns to pursue these agreements,
sending taxpayer education dollars to any accredited school, public,
charter, or private, even in neighboring states, with the exception of
religious schools. The local board, at the behest of voters, negotiates
contracts and approves taxpayer-funded tuition payments to those
schools. The money follows the student.

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Cathy