Title XV, Education

The general court recognizes that the right of a parent to direct the education of their child is a natural right. A parent may elect to educate his or her own child at home in accordance with this chapter.

I. Schools shall meet performance based indicators under this chapter, and statewide performance targets as approved by the legislative oversight committee established in RSA 193-C and thereafter, as established in rules adopted by the state board of education pursuant to RSA 541…

I. The department shall encourage every public high school in the state to consider placement in the program's courses for students who may benefit from this program. The program of studies will consist of one or more high-school level courses that progress through the mastery of…

I. (a) An adequate education shall be defined and identified as the school approval standards in the following learning areas: (1) English/language arts and reading. (2) Mathematics. (3) Science. (4) Social studies, including civics, government, economics, geography, history, and…

I. Each school district and chartered public school that serves any students in grades 6 through 12 that issues student identification cards shall include on either side of the cards the telephone number for the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. II. The requirement in paragraph I …

I. The general court shall use the definition of the opportunity for an adequate education in RSA 193-E:2-a to determine the resources necessary to provide essential programs, considering educational needs. The general court shall make an initial determination of the necessary sp…

The general court recognizes that schools with greater educational challenges will benefit from varying resources. Schools with varying educational challenges often exist within a single school district. The general court is committed to addressing the varying educational challen…

I. There is established a commission to study best practices for teaching students how intolerance, bigotry, antisemitism, and national, ethnic, racial, or religious hatred and discrimination have evolved in the past, and can evolve into mass violence and genocide, such as the Ho…

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. The commissioner shall annually compile and disseminate to the governor and council, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, local school boards, superintendents of schools, and the public, and shall make available on the department website, a…

Nothing in this chapter shall create a private right of action against any school administrative unit, school district, public academy, chartered public school, the state, or any employee, contractor, subcontractor, or agent thereof. A school administrative unit employee, school …

I. Annually, each school district shall report data to the department of education at the school and district levels on the indicators set forth in this paragraph. The report shall not contain personally identifiable information including but not limited to name, gender, or socia…

Any person convicted of an act of theft, destruction, or violence as defined in RSA 193-D:1 committed in a safe school zone at any time of year may be subject to an extended term of imprisonment as provided in RSA 651:6.

There is established within the department of education a statewide education improvement and assessment program. The commissioner shall develop and implement this program in conjunction with the state board of education and the legislative oversight committee. In carrying out th…

I. Each school administrative unit within the state shall, in consultation with the local police authority having jurisdiction over drug enforcement where each drug-free zone is located, publish a map clearly indicating the boundaries of each permanent drug-free school zone in ac…

In this chapter: I. (a) "Bullying" means a single significant incident or a pattern of incidents involving a written, verbal, or electronic communication, or a physical act or gesture, or any combination thereof, directed at another pupil which: (1) Physically harms a pupil or da…

A declaration of home education shall not be required, except to obtain access to public school programs pursuant to RSA 193:1-c or upon withdrawal from a public school.

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…

Any school which is designated a persistently dangerous school, which for 2 consecutive years has operated as a safe school, shall be decertified as a persistently dangerous school. For the purposes of this section, a safe school is a school which has not had the number or freque…

The community college system of New Hampshire shall annually submit a report listing the New Hampshire high schools that are partners in the math learning communities program to the department of education, the house education committee, and the senate education committee no late…

In this section: I. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department of education. II. "Department" means the department of education. II-a. "Genocide" means any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or…

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…

Using the input-based accountability system, a school shall demonstrate that it provides the opportunity for an adequate education under RSA 193-E:2-a by meeting the requirements of paragraphs I and II of this section. I. (a) A school shall demonstrate that it provides the opport…

I. There is hereby established a task force to develop and review the performance-based accountability system (PBAS) that will serve to demonstrate that a school is providing the opportunity for an adequate education as defined in RSA 193-E:2-a. II. The task force shall be compos…

Prior to the submission of the final report pursuant to RSA 193-E:3-c, VIII, the department shall undertake a process to verify and test the integrity, accuracy, and validity of the performance-based accountability system utilizing the best available data from one school from eac…

The department shall implement corrective and technical assistance to schools that do not demonstrate that they provide the opportunity for an adequate education under RSA 193-E:3-b, I or II as follows: I. In the first year of a school being unable to demonstrate that it provides…

The principal or other administrator of a high school shall grant credit toward high school graduation for similar courses and programs that have been satisfactorily completed at other approved schools or shall provide reasonable justification for denial. For purposes of this sec…

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…

In this subdivision: I. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department of education. II. "Data warehouse" means the electronic system operated by the department of education that maintains the information about pupils as set forth in RSA 193-E:3, I, VI, and VII. The data…

I. (a) Any public or private school employee who has witnessed or who has information from the victim of an act of theft, destruction, or violence in a safe school zone shall report such act in writing immediately to a supervisor. A supervisor receiving such report shall immediat…

I. Any school which is designated a persistently dangerous school shall, within 5 days of being notified of such designation, notify the parents or guardian of the pupil attending such school of the option to transfer the pupil from the school to a school within the same school d…

The state board of education shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to the exemption of certain students from participation in the program. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the ability of the state board of education to adopt rules pursuant to the a…