SDGANH Blog

On October 21, SDGA held a comprehensive webinar on local tax caps, school district budget caps, town budget caps, and petition warrant articles.  During the 2025 legislative session, the General Court passed and the Governor signed several important improvements to...

New laws have recently gone into effect that can help improve your school districts (and towns).  RSA 186:11, X(a) "Certification of teachers, supervisors, and administrators in the public schools " - This common sense law requires those seeking an initial license for...

SDGA is pleased to announce three new and updated model policies to our growing model policy manual.  Of most immediate interest is our "Parental Rights and Responsibilities Policy" now updated to incorporate the Parental Bill of Rights which became law July 1...

On October 2, SDGA President Eric Pauer, former Hollis Brookline Co-Op School Board member, provided the 7-member legislative "Committee to Study Reducing Number of SAUs" at Granite Place in Concord, NH, with detailed data and a conceptual plan to improve school...

(Sept. 22, 2025) –  The SDGA (School District Governance Association of NH) has posted on our website the statewide student achievement results from spring 2025. The data was gathered from the results publicly posted on the NH Department of Education site, but...

(August 19, 2025) –  Governor Kelly Ayotte has signed the following three local tax cap and budget cap bills from the 2025 session into law:  HB200, HB374, and SB105. HB200 "relative to the procedure for overriding a local tax cap" strengthens local tax caps...