Title XV, Education

I. In this section, "gifted and talented student" means a student identified as having unique academic, artistic, or athletic potential according to assessments selected and administered locally. II. Beginning in the 2022-2023 school year, every New Hampshire public school shall …

Every 3 years following the effective date of this section, the school board of every school district shall: I. Review the existing contracts, debts, funding, policies, and salaries of the school district; and II. Provide a written report to the school district including findings…

If any other provisions in the laws which relate to education shall be found by the state board to impose upon any district obligations which, by reason of unusual circumstances or of exceptional conditions in that district, result in an unnecessary expenditure of school money, o…

Superintendents shall direct and supervise the work of teachers, and for cause may remove a teacher or other employee of the district. The person so removed shall continue as an employee of the district unless discharged by the local school board but may not return to the classro…

Any person so removed, unless dismissed by the school board, may appeal to the state board. The board shall prescribe the manner in which appeals shall be made, and when one is made shall investigate the matter in any way it sees fit, and make such orders as justice requires.

It shall be the duty of superintendents to attend all conferences called by the state board. Each superintendent shall report to the proper officers any violation of the provisions of the laws of this state in reference to the public schools, school buildings, the employment of p…

I. School boards shall appoint truant officers for their districts. II. School board policies on truancy shall include but not be limited to: (a) A definition of "excused absence" and a process for considering exceptions to absences not otherwise excused. (b) A process for interv…

Truant officers shall hold office for one year and until their successors are appointed, but they may be removed by the school board at any time for cause.

I. For the purposes of this subdivision, "truancy" means an unexcused absence from school or class and "unexcused absence" is an absence which has not been excused in accordance with RSA 189:34, II(a). II. Ten half days of unexcused absence during a school year shall constitute h…

I. Truant officers shall, when directed by the school board, enforce the laws and regulations relating to truants and children between the ages of 6 and 18 years not attending school or who are not participating in an alternative learning plan under RSA 193:1, I(h); and the laws …

The state board may require school boards to appoint additional truant officers if in its judgment such additional officers are necessary; and may require the school board of any school district to remove any truant officer found by it to be incompetent, and to appoint a competen…

Superintendents shall nominate and school boards elect all teachers employed in the schools in their school administrative unit, providing such teachers hold a valid educational credential issued by the state board of education.

Notwithstanding a determination of critical staffing shortage made by the department of education, a superintendent, with the approval of the local school board, may determine that a critical staffing shortage exists in one or more specific teaching areas within the school distri…

I. The local school board, in consultation with the superintendent, may offer a one-time certificate of eligibility, for a one-year period which may be extended by the local school board for a second consecutive year, to any person interested in employment as an educator on a ful…

I. A part-time teacher is not required to hold a state board of education credential provided that the individual: (a) Works up to 20 hours per week. (b) Seeks a criminal history record check clearance authorization from the department of education as outlined in RSA 189:13-c pri…

All such decisions of the state board shall be made in writing, recorded by it and a copy sent for record to the clerk of the district affected thereby.

In the absence of express contract, a session of 3 hours in the forenoon and 3 hours in the afternoon shall constitute a school day, 5 such days a school week, and 4 such weeks a school month, in the public schools.

The person responsible shall make the entries in the register required by the state board of education, and at the close of the term return the register to the school board.

The school board of any school district may provide the following child benefit services for pupils in each public and nonpublic school in the district or in another school district in this state: I. School physician services under the provisions of RSA 200:26-41. II. School nurs…

I. The state board of education in conjunction with the department of safety shall adopt a model fingerprinting program which shall be made available to the board of education of each school district in the state. The state board of education shall encourage each school district …

A town may raise and appropriate money to carry the provisions of this subdivision into effect.

Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to allow either a deletion or diminution of a program or purchase adopted through normal budgetary procedure.

Beginning July 1, 2027, all school districts and chartered public schools that provide elementary education shall provide measurable, evidence-based instruction in literacy for all students through grade 5, including: explicit, systematic instruction in phonemic awareness, phonic…

Educational and youth employment programs serving special population students shall be coordinated with the requirements of this subdivision. All such coordinating efforts shall not exempt participating school districts or public or private employers from meeting all requirements…

The state board of education shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to the procedures and guidelines necessary to effect the purposes of this subdivision.

I. There is hereby established a dropout prevention and dropout recovery program in the department of education. The department is authorized to provide the services described in this subdivision to the state and to public, quasi-public, and private entities to assist pupils in s…

The local school district shall furnish transportation to pupils in kindergarten through grade 8 who live more than 2 miles from the school to which they are assigned. The local school district may furnish transportation to pupils in kindergarten through grade 8 who live 2 miles …

The district shall instruct all pupils, who are transported by the district as provided in RSA 189:6, in the following: I. School bus safety. II. The evacuation procedure for buses in emergency situations. III. Any other matters regarding the safety of pupils being transported to…

To achieve maximum utilization of available before-and-after-school programs for school-age children, school districts shall be permitted to transport pupils between schools and legally-operating before-and-after-school programs upon the approval of the school district in the sam…

I. Pupils may be transported to or from school activities in a mixed use school bus, as defined by RSA 259:96-a, which bears a valid state inspection sticker and is operated by a driver who holds a valid driver's license to operate that vehicle. An operator of a mixed use school …

I. A school district may contract with a contract carrier of passengers, as defined by RSA 266-A:2, VII, that is designed to transport 16 or more passengers including the operator, to transport pupils to or from school activities. The motor vehicle used by the contract carrier of…

I. Pupils may be transported to or from school and school-related activities in a school transportation vehicle as defined by RSA 259:96-b, which is approved by the division of motor vehicles of the department of safety and operated by a driver who holds a valid school bus driver…

A school district may receive dropout prevention and dropout recovery services by a favorable vote of its legislative body authorizing the expenditure of not less than 10 percent of estimated program costs for such school district.

I. All programs shall be eligible to apply for dropout prevention and dropout recovery programs and funds under this subdivision, provided that such programs and funds shall be targeted, to the extent available, to those high schools with the highest dropout rate, as determined b…

I. Every public, chartered public, and nonpublic school shall develop a site-specific school emergency operations plan which is based on and conforms to the Incident Command System and the National Incident Management System and submit such plan to the director of homeland securi…

In this subdivision: I. "Biometric" means a record of one or more measurable biological or behavioral characteristics that can be used for automated recognition of an individual. Examples include fingerprints, retina and iris patterns, voiceprints, DNA sequence, facial characteri…

I. The department shall create, maintain, and make publicly available an annually-updated index of data elements containing definitions of individual student personally-identifiable data fields or fields identified in RSA 189:68 currently in the SLDS or any other database maintai…

I. A school shall, on request, disclose student personally-identifiable data about a student to the parent, foster parent, or legal guardian of the student under the age of 18 or to the eligible student. II. A school or the department may disclose to a testing entity the student'…

I. Except as provided in RSA 193-C:12, the department shall not collect or maintain the following data in the SLDS: (a) Name of the student's parents or other family members. (b) Address of the student or student's family. (c) Student email or other electronic address. (d) Studen…

I. For the purposes of this section: (a) "Operator" means the operator of an Internet website, online service, online application, or mobile application with actual knowledge that the site, service, or application is used primarily for K-12 school purposes and was designed and ma…

I. An educational institution shall not: (a) Require or request a student or prospective student to disclose or to provide access to a personal social media account through the student's or prospective student's user name, password, or other means of authentication that provides …

A student shall have the right to wear a dress uniform issued to the student by a branch of the United States armed forces while participating in the graduation ceremony for the student's high school if that student meets the following requirements: I. The student has fulfilled a…

The school board of each public school and chartered public school shall post in a clearly visible location in a public area of the school that is readily accessible to students a sign that is provided in an electronic or printed form by the division for children, youth, and fami…

A school district employee who has been employed by the school district for at least 12 months and who has worked at least 900 hours in the previous 12-month period shall be eligible for family and medical leave under the same terms and conditions as leave provided to eligible em…

I. School boards shall provide the opportunity for the public to comment on school district matters at a meeting of the school board held under RSA 91-A:2. The public comment period shall be for no less than 30 minutes. School boards may request that persons register in advance o…

In this subdivision: I. "Cost-per-pupil" refers to the cost-per-pupil within a school district and shall mean the lowest of: (a) The current expenditures associated with the daily operation of the school district divided by the daily membership in attendance with expenditures ass…