Title XV, Education

I. Each school board shall make at least one meal available during school hours to every pupil under its jurisdiction. Such meals shall be served without cost or at a reduced cost to any child who meets federal income eligibility guidelines. The state board of education shall ens…

The school board of each school district may provide the services of a learning disability teacher under such conditions and with such exceptions, as the state board of education may prescribe.

Each public school district and chartered public school shall: (a) Provide instruction in cursive writing by the end of fifth grade as a component of English language arts; and (b) Provide instruction of the multiplication tables by the end of fifth grade; and (c) Subparagraphs (…

I. Each public school in the state, as part of the school board-approved kindergarten through grade 12 health education program, shall provide age and developmentally appropriate drug and alcohol education to pupils based upon the needs of the pupils and the community. The school…

I. A school board or school administrative unit board may affix the New Hampshire state seal of civic excellence and engagement on a diploma awarded to a student graduating from high school, as defined in RSA 194:23. The seal shall signify a student who has achieved a high level …

I. Consistent with 42 U.S.C. section 1762(c)(1)(A), the department of education shall provide the department of health and human services with the name, date of birth, and household address of each student eligible for free or reduced-price meals for the purpose of automatic enro…

The school board may dismiss any teacher found by them to be immoral, or who has not satisfactorily maintained the competency standards established by the school district, or one who does not conform to regulations prescribed; provided, that no teacher shall be so dismissed befor…

I. (a) The employing school administrative unit, school district, or chartered public school shall complete a criminal history records check on every selected applicant for employment in any position in the school administrative unit, school district, or chartered public school p…

I. The department of education shall complete a criminal history records check on all school bus drivers, school transportation vehicle drivers, school bus monitors, designated volunteers, and contracted service providers, as would school administrative units, school districts, a…

I. Definitions: (a) "Credentialing applicant" means a first-time applicant for a New Hampshire teaching credential. (b) "Candidate" means a student at an institution of higher education in New Hampshire who has been selected to participate in a K-12 educator preparation program. …

I. As used in this section: (a) "Educational personnel" means an individual who is employed, either part time or full time, by a school administrative unit, school district, public school, public charter school, public academy, or non-public approved special education school in t…

I. Educators credentialed by the New Hampshire department of education shall have a duty to respond to written inquiries by parents and legal guardians regarding information relating to their child enrolled in that educator's school. Such response to a written request shall be se…

The district shall be liable in the action of assumpsit to any teacher dismissed in violation of the provisions of RSA 189:13, to the extent of the full salary for the period for which such teacher was engaged.

I. (a) Any teacher who has a professional standards certificate from the state board of education and who has taught for one or more years in the same school district shall be notified in writing on or before April 15 or within 15 days of the adoption of the district budget by th…

I. A teacher aggrieved by such decision may either petition the state board of education for review thereof or request arbitration under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement pursuant to RSA 273-A:4, if applicable, but may not do both. Such petition must be in writing an…

Any teacher certified in this state who has been convicted of any felony involving child sexual abuse images or of a felonious physical assault on a minor or of any sexual assault, shall have such teacher certification revoked by the New Hampshire state board of education.

Employees of a school administrative unit or school district in this state who have been convicted of homicide, an offense involving child sexual abuse images, aggravated felonious sexual assault, felonious sexual assault, or kidnapping, in this state or under any statute prohibi…

I. The state board of education shall grant the educational credential of master teacher to those persons who have fulfilled at least the following requirements: (a) Teaching experience, including at least 7 years during which a teaching certificate requiring knowledge and perfor…

I. A teacher applying for certification through the bureau of credentialing, department of education, shall complete and submit either a written application or an electronic application, both of which shall include a declaration and verification statement to read substantially as…

No later than the last day of school each year, the superintendent shall notify, in writing, all education support personnel and non-certified school district employees who have completed their probationary employment period of the intent to continue or not to continue that emplo…

The school board may, unless otherwise provided by statute or state board regulations, prescribe regulations for the attendance upon, and for the management, classification and discipline of, the schools; and such regulations, when recorded in the official records of the school b…

The school board may purchase, at the expense of the district, accident or injury insurance covering all students while participating in any school activity or may make such insurance available at the option and expense of the parent or guardian of each student.

The school board shall purchase, at the expense of the city or town in which the district is situated, textbooks and other supplies required for use in the public schools; and shall loan the same to the pupils of such schools free of charge, subject to such regulations for their …

I. The school district shall make menstrual hygiene products available at no cost in all gender neutral bathrooms and bathrooms designated for females located in public middle and high schools. II. Menstrual hygiene products shall include sanitary napkins and tampons. III. The sc…

The school board shall supply a United States and a New Hampshire state flag; the flags shall be made not less than 5 feet in length, with a flagstaff and appliances for displaying the same, for every schoolhouse in the district in which a public school is taught, at the expense …

I. State agencies, private groups, or individual citizens may provide and have placed in a public school classroom an American flag or a New Hampshire state flag, or both, and appliances for displaying such flag or flags, where none is already displayed. II. Upon receipt of an Am…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no power or authority of the state of New Hampshire, or any political subdivision thereof, shall in any way restrict, or be construed to restrict, the authority of any school or school district to display the national mo…

In all public schools of the state one session, or a portion thereof, during the weeks in which Memorial Day, Constitution Day, and Veterans Day fall, shall be devoted to exercises of a patriotic nature, which shall include a discussion of the words, meaning, and history of the P…

The placement of a memorial or memorial plaque on school property in memory of an alumnus of a junior high school or high school in the district who died honorably during active duty shall require approval from the school board or approval of a warrant article acted upon at the a…

In the instruction of children in all schools, including private schools, in reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, grammar, geography, physiology, history, civil government, music, and drawing, the English language shall be used exclusively, both for the purposes of instruction…

If the school board of any district shall decide that, by reason of special conditions or circumstances, the maintenance of standard schools for 180 days, or the equivalent number of hours if approved by the commissioner of the department of education, in said district is undesir…

In this chapter: I. "Parent" means a person who has legal custody of a minor child as a natural or adoptive parent or a legal guardian, but such term shall not include a parent as to whom the parent-child relationship has been terminated by judicial decree or voluntary relinquish…

A foreign language may be taught in elementary schools; provided, that the course of study (or its equivalent) outlined by the state board in the branches named in RSA 189:19 be not abridged but be taught in compliance with the law of the state.

The exclusive use of English for purposes of instruction and administration shall not prohibit the conduct of devotional exercises in private schools in a language other than English.

The secretary of state is hereby directed to furnish to the state board of education such number of copies of the state constitution and the election laws as may be necessary.

The state board of education is hereby directed to distribute copies of the state constitution and election laws to all teachers of history and civics in the upper grades of elementary schools and to teachers of United States history in junior and senior high schools to be used b…

A standard school is one approved by the state board of education, and maintained for at least 180 days in each year, or the equivalent number of hours as required in the rules of the department of education, in a suitable and sanitary building, equipped with approved furniture, …

An elementary school is any school approved by the state board of education in which the subjects taught are those prescribed by the state board for the grades kindergarten through 8 of the public schools. However, a separate organization consisting of grades 7 through 9, or any …

For the purpose of obtaining discounts pursuant to the universal service fund, otherwise known as "E-rate" discounts, as established by section 254 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, "school" means any public or private elementary or secondary school, and any regional career …

No book shall be introduced into the public schools calculated to favor any particular religious sect or political party.

The school board shall furnish to the responsible person a supply of blank registers provided by the state board.

School boards, or the governing persons or governing bodies of public academies or non-public schools, may choose to maintain pupil registration and enrollment information through the use of a computer, instead of using a register provided by the state board of education. The sof…

Pupil registers, whether kept manually or by means of a computer, shall be retained as a permanent record of the school district, public academy, or nonpublic school.

I. The governing body of every public, chartered public school, and nonpublic education agency, shall, on or before the deadline established by the department as deemed appropriate in each year, submit to the department of education those statistical reports necessary to compute …

I. School boards shall publish in the next annual report, or post at the annual meeting, the general fund balance sheet from the most recently completed audited financial statements or from the most recently completed financial report filed pursuant to RSA 21-J:34, V. II. In the …

Members of the school board shall establish a records retention and disposition schedule for all official records of the school district. If records are microfilmed, 2 films shall be made, properly labeled and stored in 2 different locations. At least one copy shall be stored in …