Title XV, Education

I. Students in public or public charter primary or secondary schools who wish to attend civic events during the school day shall have their school absences excused. II. For the purposes of this section: (a) "Civic event" means: (1) Any event, activity, hearing, or meeting held by…

The provisions relating to illiterates and non-English-speaking persons over 16 years of age shall not apply to persons employed in cutting, harvesting or driving pulp-wood and timber, nor to persons temporarily employed in any sort of construction or agricultural work.

Any person not a pupil who shall wilfully interrupt or disturb any school shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

I. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall attend school, or send a pupil to the school, in any district of which the pupil is not a legal resident, without the consent of the district or of the school board except as otherwise provided in this section, RSA 19…

I. (a) A superintendent or chartered public school director, or a representative designated in writing by the superintendent or chartered public school director, may suspend pupils from school for a period not to exceed 10 consecutive school days for: (1) Behavior that is detrime…

The state board of education in conjunction with the department of education shall make available to local school boards information regarding the responsibilities of the local boards when parents request a change in school assignment. Such information shall include an explanatio…

Any pupil who, after notice, attends or visits a school which the pupil has no right to attend, or interrupts or disturbs such school, shall for the first offense be guilty of a violation, and shall for any subsequent offense be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Districts may make bylaws, not repugnant to law, concerning habitual 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 to compel the attendance of such children at s…

Any offender so convicted may give bond to the district in the sum of $25, with sufficient sureties, approved by the court or justice before whom such offender was convicted, conditioned to attend regularly a school assigned by the local school board for one term next ensuing, to…

The sums appropriated under the provisions of this section shall be nonlapsing and continually appropriated for the sole purpose of contributing to the payment of board, room rent, books and supplies, at an institution of higher education, for veteran's natural or adopted childre…

Children, as described in RSA 193:19, enrolled at a New Hampshire public institution of higher education shall receive free tuition.

The amounts payable to recipients shall be determined by the department of education, division of educator support and higher education. The higher education commission established in RSA 21-N:8-a shall determine the eligibility in accordance with rules adopted under RSA 541-A of…

Notwithstanding any statutory provisions or rule of law to the contrary, any minor who contracts to borrow money to defray the expenses of attending any institution of higher education shall have full legal capacity to act in the minor's own behalf and shall have all the rights, …

I. Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, and each year thereafter, the school board of a school district, the governing body of a public academy, and the governing body of a chartered public school, as appropriate, shall ensure that each of its pupils eligible for graduation …

As used in this subdivision: I. "Home for children" means any orphanage; institution for the care, treatment, or custody of children; child care agency as defined by RSA 170-E:25, II and III; or any residential school approved under RSA 186:11, XXIX. II. "Health care facility" me…

Whenever any child is placed and cared for in any home for children, or is placed by the department of health and human services in the home of a relative or friend of such child pursuant to RSA 169-B, RSA 169-C, RSA 169-D, RSA 170-C, or RSA 463, such child, if of school age, sha…

I. For any child placed and cared for in any home for children or health care facility, the sending district shall make payments to the receiving district as follows: (a) For a child attending a public school in the receiving district who receives special education as required by…

I. (a) The parent or guardian of a student may apply to the superintendent of the student's district of residence to change the student's school or assignment to another specific public school, public academy, or an approved private school within the district. The parent or guard…

I. No school board shall adopt a policy of automatically separating or placing together twins or other multiples. In this section, "multiples" means triplets or more. II. A parent or guardian of twins or other multiples in elementary school may, no later than 60 days before the f…

The state board of education shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A and RSA 21-N:9, II(l), relative to education of children placed in homes for children, health care facilities or state institutions. Such rules may include provisions for administrative hearings to resolve disp…

The department of education, in cooperation with the department of health and human services, shall establish the "missing child educational program" that shall perform the functions specified in this subdivision. The program shall operate under the supervision and control of the…

I. The program shall acquire or prepare educational materials relating to missing children issues and matters. These issues and matters include, but are not limited to, the following: (a) The types of missing children. (b) The reasons why and how minors become missing children, t…

Each year the program shall issue a report describing its performance of the functions specified in this subdivision and shall provide a copy of the report to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, the governor, the attorney general, and the com…

I. This act recognizes the importance of the early childhood years upon children's brain development. Given appropriate stimulation, babies develop critical cognitive and social skills from birth to age 3. These early years provide a window of opportunity to enrich a child's cogn…

I. The department of education shall establish the school district based Parents as Teachers Program for a rural community in Sullivan county in cooperation with School Administrative Unit 6 and the Parent Information Center. Sullivan county will be the rural site for the program…

The commissioner of the department of education shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, necessary to carry out the provisions of this subdivision.

No person shall be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination in public schools because of their age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, marital status, familial status, disability, religion, or national origin, a…

Each school district and chartered public school shall develop a policy that guides the development and implementation of a coordinated plan to prevent, assess the presence of, intervene in, and respond to incidents of discrimination on the basis of age, sex, gender identity, sex…

Any district shall pay for the tuition of any pupil who, as a resident of the district, has been assigned to attend a public elementary or junior high school or school of corresponding grade in another district or a private school approved as a school tuition program by the schoo…

Any district shall be liable for the tuition of any child who as a resident of the district has been assigned to attend public school in another district in accordance with an approved dual enrollment plan; such payment shall be made as provided in RSA 193:4.

I. No pupil in any public school in this state shall be taught, instructed, inculcated or compelled to express belief in, or support for, any one or more of the following: (a) That one's age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, marital status, familial s…

I. In this subdivision, "school" means a public high school in which any combination of grades 9 through 12 are taught or a public middle school in which any combination of grades 5 through 8 are taught. This shall not apply to students in any grade kindergarten through fourth gr…

I. Any student who is deprived of an athletic opportunity or suffers any direct or indirect harm as a result of a school knowingly violating RSA 193:41 shall have a private cause of action for injunctive relief, damages, and any other relief available under law against the school…

Whenever it shall appear to the superintendent of schools that the welfare of any child will be best served by the withdrawal of such child from school, the superintendent or a majority of the members of the school board shall make recommendation to the commissioner of education,…

Any person who does not comply with the requirements of this subdivision shall be guilty of a violation and any fines collected hereunder shall be for the use of the district.

The school board of every district shall cause a copy of RSA 193:1-7 to be sent to every person who they have reason to believe does not comply with the requirements thereof.