Title XV, Education

In any fiscal year, the amount appropriated for distribution as school building grants in accordance with the version of RSA 198:15-b in effect prior to July 1, 2012 shall first be awarded to a school district for an eligible project funded before July 1, 2012. If the amount appr…

The department of education is hereby designated as the agency of the state of New Hampshire for the receipt and distribution of federal funds in aid of school building construction and is hereby given such authority in connection therewith as it may be required to possess by any…

I. The amount of the annual grant for a lease to any school district duly organized, any city maintaining a school department within its corporate organization, any cooperative school district as defined in RSA 195:1, or any receiving district operating an area school as defined …

I. There is established in the department of education a kindergarten construction program to provide certain construction grants which shall be available to eligible school districts that currently do not operate a public kindergarten program. These grants shall be available unt…

I. [Repealed.] II. [Repealed.] III. A kindergarten construction grant request shall contain, at a minimum, the following information: (a) A set of educational specifications, prepared by district staff. (b) Construction plans and cost estimates, prepared by a licensed architect. …

If, within 20 years of the completion of kindergarten facilities constructed under this subdivision, a school district or city maintaining a school department discontinues the kindergarten program or uses these classrooms for other than kindergarten, it shall be required to pay b…

As used in this subdivision: I. "Median family income" means that income for each municipality using the most recent data available from the United States Bureau of the Census. II. "Equalized valuation per pupil" means the average equalized valuation within the school district ov…

I. The amount of the annual grant to any school district duly organized, any city maintaining a school department within its corporate organization, any cooperative school district as defined in RSA 195:1, or any receiving district operating an area school as defined in RSA 195-A…

The provisions of RSA 198:15-c through 198:15-h shall apply to any grant made under this subdivision.

I. The general court recognizes that there is a need to provide funding for infrastructure projects for public preschools, elementary, and secondary schools. Therefore, it is the intent of this chapter to designate certain surplus funds in the 2016-2017 biennial budget to provide…

I. There is hereby established the public school infrastructure commission, which shall advise the governor on proposals for expenditures from the public school infrastructure fund established in RSA 198:15-y. The commission shall consist of the following members: (a) Two members…

I. By August 1, 1989, the department of education shall certify to county commissioners of each county responsible for unincorporated towns, unorganized places, and towns where by act of the legislature the school districts have been abolished, the amount of money deemed necessar…

I. As an incentive to the pre-existing districts which, heretofore or hereafter, undertake the obligations of a cooperative school district, the state board shall, from funds appropriated by the general court to carry out the provisions hereof, pay annually to each cooperative sc…

I. As an incentive to receiving and sending districts which undertake the obligations of an area school, the state board shall, from funds appropriated by the general court to carry out the provisions of this chapter, pay annually to each receiving district sums in accordance wit…

Whenever a nonpublic school, or a portion thereof, closes and any of its pupils become enrolled in the public schools, the state board in determining eligibility for any form of state aid computed wholly or in part on the basis of average daily membership of pupils may count thes…

No state moneys or moneys raised and appropriated by any political subdivision of the state or any federal moneys administered by the state or any political subdivision thereof shall be paid or granted to a nonpublic school for the education and training of disabled children as d…

I. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any school district at an annual meeting may adopt an article authorizing indefinitely, until specific rescission of such authority, the school board to apply for, accept and expend, without further action by the scho…

I. The school district may at any annual or special meeting appropriate such sums of money as it deems necessary to create expendable trust funds for specific purposes for the maintenance and operation of schools and for any other public purpose that is not foreign to the school …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a school district or a city with a dependent school district may incur debt in anticipation of reimbursement under RSA 186-C:18 and under RSA 198:42. The governing body, after notice and public hearing, may elect to borr…

I. Any school district which has in operation an approved dual enrollment agreement under the provisions of RSA 193:1-a shall be granted for the first school year that such agreement is in operation the full operational costs of implementing such agreement, exclusive of any part …

I. Any school district which is providing any child benefit service pursuant to the authority of RSA 189:49 and 50 shall be granted the following proportion of the costs, exclusive of any part of the cost and carrying charges of any capital improvements, of providing such service…

When a child has been placed in a home by the children and youth services division of the department of health and human services or by a licensed child-placing agency, the school district in which said home is located shall be entitled to the funds provided under the provisions …

I. Each school district shall be entitled to receive an amount not to exceed $200 per year for each foster child who attends a school in such district. If more than one school district is involved during any school year, the amount of payment to any one district will be distribut…

If, in any year, the number of children entitled to receive benefits in accordance with RSA 198:24 shall exceed the amount appropriated for such purpose, the amount shall be prorated proportionally among the districts entitled to the tuition payments. In carrying out the proratio…

As of June 30 in each year, the state board shall cause to be computed the amount of annual grants to be paid eligible districts in the succeeding fiscal year as provided herein. If the foster home is located in a pre-existing district within a cooperative district, any aid paid …

In this subdivision: I. (a) "Average daily membership in attendance" or "ADMA" means the average daily membership in attendance, as defined in RSA 189:1-d, III, of pupils in kindergarten through grade 12, in the determination year. ADMA shall only include pupils who are legal res…

I. The state treasurer shall establish an education trust fund in the treasury. Moneys in such fund shall not be used for any purpose other than: (a) To distribute adequate education grants to municipalities' school districts pursuant to RSA 198:42. (b) To distribute grants to mu…

The school board of each district in its annual report shall state in detail the additional sums of money, if any, which will be required during the ensuing fiscal year for the support of the public schools, for the purchase of textbooks, scholars' supplies, flags and appurtenanc…

I. The commissioner of revenue administration shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to blanks for certifying appropriations by the school board and the information which they must contain. II. The school board shall, annually within 20 days of the close of the meetin…

I. A school district annually by an article separate from the budget and all other articles in the warrant, or the governing body of a city upon recommendation of the school board, when the operation of the schools is by a department of the city, may establish a contingency fund …

Any school district may appropriate money to establish a revolving fund to aid instruction in the building construction trades. The fund shall be used to pay necessary costs of construction projects which are carried out as part of the instructional program, including the purchas…

The governing body of each city, school district, chartered public school, and school administrative unit shall submit to the commissioner of the department of education in a searchable electronic format the following reports pursuant to rules adopted under RSA 541-A by the commi…

I. A school district, city, chartered public school, or public academy shall file the reports due under RSA 198:4-d, III no later than September 1 of each year. II. For just cause, the commissioner of the department of education, or designee, may grant a school district, city, or…

I. For the biennium beginning July 1, 2023, the annual cost of providing the opportunity for an adequate education as defined in RSA 193-E:2-a shall be as specified in paragraph II. The department shall adjust the rates specified in this paragraph in accordance with RSA 198:40-d.…

Beginning July 1, 2026, and every year thereafter, the department of education shall adjust the following with an increase of 2 percent annually, rounded up to the nearest whole dollar: I. Per pupil costs in RSA 198:40-a, II; and II. Chartered public school additional grants unde…

I. In addition to aid for the cost of the opportunity for an adequate education provided under RSA 198:40-a, each year the commissioner shall calculate an extraordinary need grant for schools and provide that amount of aid to a municipality's school districts as follows: (a) A mu…

I. In addition to aid for the cost of the opportunity for an adequate education provided under RSA 198:40-a, each year the commissioner shall calculate a fiscal capacity disparity aid grant for schools and provide that amount of aid to a municipality's school districts as follows…

I. Except for municipalities where all school districts therein provide education to all of their pupils by paying tuition to other institutions, the department of education shall determine the total education grant for the municipality as follows: (a) Add the per pupil cost of p…

I. The adequate education grant determined in RSA 198:41 shall be distributed to each municipality's school district or districts from the education trust fund in 4 payments of 20 percent on September 1, 20 percent on November 1, 30 percent on January 1, and 30 percent on April 1…

School districts are authorized to develop educational programs beyond those required for an adequate education and to raise and appropriate amounts necessary for such programs.

If any provision of RSA 198:38 through RSA 198:43 or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of RSA 198:38 through RSA 198:43 which can be given effect without the invalid provision …

The governing body of every school district, city, joint maintenance agreement, chartered public school, or approved public academy shall submit all records, data, or other information required under this subdivision in accordance with the provisions of RSA 189:28.

Distributions under RSA 198:42 are based on adequate education costs determined in RSA 198:41 and are independent of how the municipalities decide to spend the distributions or other funds they may raise for education. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, nothing in this s…

I. A school district that currently does not operate a kindergarten program within an approved public school maintained by the local district or currently does not contract with another established public kindergarten program for the education of its resident kindergarten pupils,…

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary: I. A school district which operates a full-day kindergarten program in any school year in which the adequate education grant provided pursuant to RSA 198:42 does not include a count of the full-day kindergarten students, shall…

I. (a) For fiscal year 2019, in addition to any funds received pursuant to RSA 198:40-a, in the first year that a school district or chartered public school that operates an approved full-day kindergarten program, the commissioner of the department of education shall calculate an…