HB1671 Singed and Passed by Governor Sununu

  • July 8, 2022

HB1671 – Passed!

Music and Visual Arts now part of an adequate public education

Initially this was a bill introduced by Commissioner Edelblut that would have gutted our state’s definition of an adequate education.

Fortunately the House Education Committee listed to the many voices that spoke up and wrote in about the problems. They amended the bill to include more than what was currently included rather than cutting.

Read more about the history as described here by Reaching Higher NH.

HB1671-L, Title: relative to the content of an adequate education. General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR House Status: CONCURRED Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT Next/Last Hearing: 02/15/2022 10:30 AM

 

Body Docket Description H Introduced 01/05/2022 and referred to Education H Public Hearing: 01/27/2022 10:30 am LOB 205-207 H Public Hearing: 02/15/2022 10:30 am LOB 205-207 H Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2022-1024h (Vote 18-1; CC) H ==CANCELLED== Public Hearing: 02/04/2022 10:30 am LOB 205-207 H Amendment # 2022-1024h: AA VV 03/15/2022 HJ 6 H Enrolled (in recess of) 05/26/2022 HJ 14 H House Concurs with Senate Amendment (Rep. Ladd): MA VV 05/12/2022 HJ 13 H Ought to Pass with Amendment 2022-1024h: MA VV 03/15/2022 HJ 6 H Signed by Governor Sununu 06/24/2022; Chapter 273; eff. 08/23/2022 HJ 14 S Hearing: 04/12/2022, Room 101, LOB, 09:15 am; SC 15 S Introduced 03/17/2022 and Referred to Education; SJ 6 S Committee Amendment # 2022-1547s, AA, VV; 04/21/2022; SJ 9 S Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2022-1547s, 04/21/2022; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 16 S Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/26/2022); SJ 13 S Ought to Pass with Amendment 2022-1547s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 04/21/2022; SJ 9

Commissioner Edelblut’s original would have cut arts from the definition of an adequate public education.

The passed version includes “arts, including music and visual arts” as a part of what defines an adequate public education.

273:1 Adequate Public Education; Substantive Educational Content. RSA 193-E:2-a, I is repealed and reenacted to readas follows: I.(a) Beginning in the school year 2008-2009, and for each year thereafter, the specific criteria and substantiveeducational program that deliver the opportunity for an adequate education shall be defined and identified as the schoolapproval 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 Holocaust and genocide education. (5) Arts education, including music and visual arts. (6) World languages. (7) Health and wellness education, including a policy for violations of RSA 126-K:8, I(a). (8) Physical education. (9) Engineering and technologies including technology applications. (10) Personal finance literacy. (11) Computer science.

 

Further, the new version adds this language to the section on accountability.

273:3 Accountability for the Opportunity for an Adequate Education. Amend RSA 193-E:3-b, I(a) to read as follows: I.(a) A school shall demonstrate that it provides the opportunity for an adequate education for the school approvalstandards set forth in rules adopted by the department of education in the following areas: (1) English/language arts and reading. (2) Mathematics. (3) Science. (4) Social studies , to include including civics, government, economics, geography, history, and Holocaust and genocideeducation . (5) Arts education , to include music and visual arts . (6) World languages. (7) Health and wellness education. (8) Physical education. (9) Engineering and technologies including technology applications . (10) Computer science and digital literacy. (11) Personal finance literacy. (12) School year requirements . [ (12) ] (13) Minimum credits required for a high school diploma.

Read the full bill text here!

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