Bill Text: NH HB276 | 2015 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Providing that school districts shall not be required to adopt the common core standards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-07 - Inexpedient to Legislate Not Voted On [HB276 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2015-HB276-Amended.html

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HB 276 – AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

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2015 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL 276

AN ACT providing that school districts shall not be required to adopt the common core standards.

SPONSORS: Rep. Ladd, Graf 4; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17

COMMITTEE: Education

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill prohibits the state board of education from adopting a rule requiring a school district or any public school to implement the common core state standards. The bill also requires a school board that elects not to implement or participate in the common core state standards or other minimum educational standards to adopt and implement educational standards that meet or exceed those standards.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen

AN ACT providing that school districts shall not be required to adopt the common core standards.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 State Board of Education; Rulemaking Authority. Amend RSA 186:8, I to read as follows:

I. Minimum curriculum and educational standards for all grades of the public schools; provided that the state board shall adopt no rule pursuant to RSA 541-A nor shall the state board formally or informally adopt a policy or guideline that requires a school district or any public school to implement or participate in the common core state standards. If a school board elects not to implement or participate in the common core state standards or any other minimum educational standards adopted by the state board pursuant to RSA 541-A or as adopted through state board policy or guidelines for all grades in public schools, the school board shall adopt and implement standards that meet or exceed those standards.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.