There are two bills that were recently voted on in the New Hampshire House of Representatives that demonstrate why voters who care about public education and the growing influence in New Hampshire politics of the Free State Movement need to pay attention . HB 1671: In February, New Hampshire Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut introduced HB […]
Happy April! I have positive and exciting news to share with you. On March 10 we held our first House Session at Representatives Hall in the State House since 2020. Sessions were also held on March 15, 16, 17, and 31. I was passionate about sitting in my assigned chair and being a part of […]
New Hampshire teachers rank sixth in survey
Nearly everyone in Andover with personal knowledge of our Andover Elementary/Middle School gushes about what a great place it has been for their children and how fabulous the teachers have been for their kids. Yet public schools and teachers in our town, and all across our state are under fire today. Why? New Hampshire has […]
Andover has many gatherings. We have many organizations with constructive meetings. We have the Fourth of July, which we share with a couple of thousand visitors. But only at Town Meeting do we all have the chance to come together as the whole Andover community on its own. There is also, of course, the opportunity […]
It is a wonderful feeling when 400 state representatives can come together and for the most part agree on bills. Of course, most of the time, the number is usually around 375. One of these bills was HB579 (Y-254, N-85). “Requiring Notice to the Public Before Immigration checkpoints are conducted”. I voted yes, as this […]
Happy February! Maple Syrup season is just a few weeks away, and then comes spring! The House had the first sessions of 2022 on January 5 and 6 at the Doubletree in Manchester. There was much debating and voting on bills. I am going to dedicate most of this article to several bills and the […]
How is AE/MS doing? Objective data says quite well. Niche ranks AE/MS 64th among the state’s 545 elementary/middle schools. The school and the town can proudly point to the ratio of one teacher to every 10 students. The NEA ranks New Hampshire second in the nation in teacher-student ratio and last in funding. The school […]
In the Holidays 2021 issue of The Andover Beacon, State Representative Louise Andrus expressed her opinions about masks being a matter of choice. About vaccines she wrote “it’s sad and disgusting what we are doing to people in that they are losing their jobs,” and ends her article by hoping that 2022 will be a […]
As a supporter of public education, I read with disappointment New Hampshire District 25 Representative Natalie Wells’ recent letter regarding public education, which in my opinion is dangerous and deliberately inaccurate. In her letter, Representative Wells makes critical claims about children and education. Given the inaccuracies in her description of public education, I would ask […]
The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law on November 15, 2021. The law was approved by 50 Democrats and 19 Republicans in the Senate and 228 Democrats and 13 Republicans in the House of Representatives. New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who was one of the 10 negotiators, published the following in […]