(Hour 2ab) In this clip, hear what NH can and can’t do because of the structure of our non “local control” state. Plus, you know the waiver that Mayor Ted Gatsas is pushing for? Find out why the state wouldn’t even allow it if he got it.
Also, Jack from Manchester called in to comment on how things just aren’t the same anymore.
During a meeting between Senators Stiles, Reagan and Kelly along w/a few State Reps from the House Ed Committee on SB48, Senator Stiles happily announced that NH would receive the waiver ON the conditions NH passed SB 48 and the Teacher Evaluations legislation. This happened a few months ago when the Senate and House worked out the language on SB48.
Here is the NCLB Waiver, also referred to as the New Hampshire ESEA Flexibility Request for Window 3, September 6, 2012. Signed by Commissioner Virginia M. Barry.
http://www2.ed.gov/policy/eseaflex/nh.pdf
Keep in mind that ALL public schools in New Hampshire were religious at its inception. When did the people vote to differentiate between public and non-public schools in their Constitution? Never. Thus, all rights belonging to public and non-public schools are the same under Part I, Art. 6.
The original Part I, Art. 6 of the NH Constitution stated in part: “…the people of this state have a right to empower, and do hereby fully empower the legislature to authorize from time to time the several towns, parishes, bodies corporate, or religious societies within this state to make adequate provision at their own expense for the support and maintenance of public protestant teachers of piety, religion, and morality;
“Provided, notwithstanding, that the several towns, parishes, bodies corporate, or religious societies, shall, at all times have the EXCLUSIVE right of electing their own public teachers, and of contracting with them for their support and maintenance.” [Exclusive Right clause]
The NH Supreme Court recognized the political independence of our schools. “And the constitution guarantees the political independence of towns no more explicitly or fully than it guarantees the ecclesiastical independence of parishes. This illustration is peculiarly satisfactory, because the towns of New Hampshire were parishes nearly two hundred years, and the independence of the parochial capacity, as it was in provincial custom and law, and as delineated in the constitution of the state, is the same, whether exercised by “towns, parishes, bodies corporate, or religious societies.” Hale v. Everett (1868) 53 NH 9, pg. 250
The “standards” being promulgated under Common Core also inculcate values. Common Core attempts to manipulate and transform the values of students.