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NH Rev Stat § 189:35-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:35-a - Truancy Defined.

    189:35-a Truancy Defined. –||I. For the purposes of this subdivision, "truancy" means an unexcused absence from school or class and "unexcused absence" is an absence which has not been excused in accordance with RSA 189:34, II(a).||II. Ten half days of unexcused absence during a school year shall constitute habitual truancy.||III. A school district shall define the term "half day of absence."||IV. Nothing in this section shall affect or limit a school district's power to adopt bylaws concerning truancy pursuant to RSA 193:16.||V. Nothing in this section shall affect or limit the duties of a parent pursuant to RSA 193:1.||VI. School district attendance records shall be presumed to be true and accurate unless evidence to the contrary is presented.|||Source. 2005, 7:1. 2010, 9:2, eff. July 6, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:36 - Duties.

    189:36 Duties. –||I. Truant officers shall, when directed by the school board, enforce the laws and regulations relating to truants and children between the ages of 6 and 18 years not attending school or who are not participating in an alternative learning plan under RSA 193:1, I(h); and the laws relating to the attendance at school of children between the ages of 6 and 18 years; and shall have authority without a warrant to take and place in school any children found employed contrary to the laws relating to the employment of children, or violating the laws relating to the compulsory attendance at school of children under the age of 18 years, and the laws relating to child labor. No home school pupil nor any person between the ages of 6 and 18 who meets any of the requirements of RSA 193:1, I(c)-(h) shall be deemed a truant.||II. A truant officer or school official shall not file a petition alleging that the child is in need of services pursuant to RSA 169-D:2, II until all steps in the school district's intervention process under RSA 189:34, II have been followed.|||Source. 1852, 1278. CS 78:2. GS 83:7. GL 91:7. 1881, 42:3. PS 92:17. 1899, 70:2. 1911, 162:16. 1921, 85, II:19. PL 117:32. RL 135:36. RSA 189:36. 1973, 72:29. 2007, 350:4. 2010, 9:3. 2011, 224:281, eff. Sept. 30, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:37 - Additional Officers.

    189:37 Additional Officers. –||The state board may require school boards to appoint additional truant officers if in its judgment such additional officers are necessary; and may require the school board of any school district to remove any truant officer found by it to be incompetent, and to appoint a competent successor; and upon the failure or neglect of the school board to do so, it may appoint such truant officer and fix compensation, which shall be paid by the district.|||Source. 1911, 162:18. 1921, 85, III:33. PL 117:34. 1927, 29:1. RL 135:38. 1995, 174:4, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:38 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:38 - Repealed by 1992, 29:1, eff. June 2, 1992.

    189:38 Repealed by 1992, 29:1, eff. June 2, 1992. –|
NH Rev Stat § 189:39 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:39 - How Chosen.

    189:39 How Chosen. –||Superintendents shall nominate and school boards elect all teachers employed in the schools in their school administrative unit, providing such teachers hold a valid educational credential issued by the state board of education.|||Source. RS 70:10. CS 74:12. GS 79:14. GL 87:14. PS 92:2. 1919, 106:12. 1921, 85, II:4. PL 117:35. RL 135:39. RSA 189:39. 1971, 371:2, eff. Aug. 27, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:39-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:39-a - Critical Staffing Shortages.

    189:39-a Critical Staffing Shortages. –||Notwithstanding a determination of critical staffing shortage made by the department of education, a superintendent, with the approval of the local school board, may determine that a critical staffing shortage exists in one or more specific teaching areas within the school district. The department of education shall be notified of any critical staffing shortages which have been determined in a school district within 30 days of such determination.|||Source. 2002, 117:1, eff. July 2, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:39-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:39-b - One-Year Certificate of Eligibility.

    189:39-b One-Year Certificate of Eligibility. –||I. The local school board, in consultation with the superintendent, may offer a one-time, one year certificate of eligibility to any person interested in teaching on a full-time or part-time basis, without requiring a person to possess a teaching credential, teaching license, or other teaching certification provided that such person:||(a) Possesses at least a bachelor's degree from an accredited postsecondary institution.||(b) Is subject to a criminal history records check pursuant to RSA 189:13-a.||(c) Is qualified for the position by relevant experience and education.||I-a. The provision of subparagraph I(a) shall not apply to an individual applying to teach a course in a CTE specialty area.||II. The school board, with input from the superintendent, shall formulate the terms of the certificate of eligibility which shall contain no tenure provisions.||III. The department of education shall be notified of the issuance of all certificates of eligibility within 30 days of the date of issuance.||IV. Any person who has had a teaching credential, teaching license, or other teaching certification revoked under RSA 189:14-c or RSA 189:14-d, or who has been rendered ineligible to be employed as a teacher under another provision of law, shall not be eligible to teach under this section.||V. No person shall be offered more than one certificate of eligibility under this section.|||Source. 2002, 117:1. 2010, 318:2, eff. Sept. 18, 2010. 2021, 28:1, eff. July 5, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:40 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:40 - School Sessions.

    189:40 School Sessions. –||In the absence of express contract, a session of 3 hours in the forenoon and 3 hours in the afternoon shall constitute a school day, 5 such days a school week, and 4 such weeks a school month, in the public schools.|||Source. 1883, 33:1. PS 92:20. 1921, 85, II:21. PL 117:36. RL 135:40.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:41 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:41 - Repealed by 1969, 104:5, eff. June 24, 1969.

    189:41 Repealed by 1969, 104:5, eff. June 24, 1969. –|
NH Rev Stat § 189:42 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:42 - Registers.

    189:42 Registers. –|| The person responsible shall make the entries in the register required by the state board of education, and at the close of the term return the register to the school board.|||Source. 1861, 250:81. GS 81:14, 15. GL 89:15, 16. PS 92:11. 1921, 85, II:24. PL 117:38. RL 135:42. RSA 189:42. 1967, 448:3. 2003, 41:1, eff. July 5, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:43 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:43 - to 189:47-a Repealed by 1996, 298:5, II, eff. Aug. 9, 1996.

    189:43 to 189:47-a Repealed by 1996, 298:5, II, eff. Aug. 9, 1996. –|
NH Rev Stat § 189:48 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:48 - Repealed by 1986, 41:29, V, eff. April 3, 1988.

    189:48 Repealed by 1986, 41:29, V, eff. April 3, 1988. –|
NH Rev Stat § 189:49 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:49 - Optional Services.

    189:49 Optional Services. –||The school board of any school district may provide the following child benefit services for pupils in each public and nonpublic school in the district or in another school district in this state:||I. School physician services under the provisions of RSA 200:26-41.||II. School nurse services.||III. School health services.||IV. School guidance and psychologist services.||V. Educational testing services.||VI. Transportation under the provisions of RSA 189:9.||VII. Textbooks and instructional materials.||VIII. Health and welfare services equivalent to those provided by public schools including speech correction and remedial and diagnostic services.||IX. Driver education.||X. Educational television services.||XI. Programs for the deaf, blind, emotionally disturbed, children with disabilities; audio-visual aids; and programs for the improvement of the educational studies of pupils with disabilities.||XII. Physical education.||XIII. Hot lunch program.||In the event that a court rules invalid one or more of the above services the other services shall not be deemed void but shall continue in effect.|||Source. 1970, 51:1. 1971, 499:4; 566:1. 1973, 501:1. 1990, 140:4, eff. June 18, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:50 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:50 - Appropriations.

    189:50 Appropriations. –||A town may raise and appropriate money to carry the provisions of this subdivision into effect.|||Source. 1970, 51:1, eff. May 4, 1970.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:51 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:51 - Limitation.

    189:51 Limitation. –||Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to allow either a deletion or diminution of a program or purchase adopted through normal budgetary procedure.|||Source. 1971, 566:2, eff. Sept. 29, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:52 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:52 - Repealed by 1995, 288:3, I, eff. July 1, 1995.

    189:52 Repealed by 1995, 288:3, I, eff. July 1, 1995. –|
NH Rev Stat § 189:53 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:53 - Literacy Skill Development in Elementary Grades.

    189:53 Literacy Skill Development in Elementary Grades. –||All school districts which provide elementary education shall have instruction in literacy for all students through grade 3, including instruction in reading, writing, speaking, listening, reasoning, and mathematics. All instruction shall be designed to assist students to achieve literacy and to provide the opportunity for each child to learn according to such child's needs and abilities as set forth by the state board of education in the minimum standards for New Hampshire public elementary schools.|||Source. 1988, 274:3. 1995, 174:12, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:54 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:54 - Repealed by 1997, 13:1, eff. June 21, 1997.

    189:54 Repealed by 1997, 13:1, eff. June 21, 1997. –|
NH Rev Stat § 189:55 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:55 - Repealed by 2003, 288:2, eff. Sept. 16, 2003.

    189:55 Repealed by 2003, 288:2, eff. Sept. 16, 2003. –|
NH Rev Stat § 189:56 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:56 - Repealed by 1995, 288:3, II, eff. July 1, 1995.

    189:56 Repealed by 1995, 288:3, II, eff. July 1, 1995. –|
NH Rev Stat § 189:57 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:57 - Coordination With Special Population Programs.

    189:57 Coordination With Special Population Programs. –||Educational and youth employment programs serving special population students shall be coordinated with the requirements of this subdivision. All such coordinating efforts shall not exempt participating school districts or public or private employers from meeting all requirements of state or federal laws.|||Source. 1988, 274:3, eff. July 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:58 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:58 - Rulemaking.

    189:58 Rulemaking. –||The state board of education shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to the procedures and guidelines necessary to effect the purposes of this subdivision.|||Source. 1988, 274:3, eff. June 29, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:59 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:59 - Dropout Prevention and Dropout Recovery Program Established.

    189:59 Dropout Prevention and Dropout Recovery Program Established. –||I. There is hereby established a dropout prevention and dropout recovery program in the department of education. The department is authorized to provide the services described in this subdivision to the state and to public, quasi-public, and private entities to assist pupils in successfully completing high school. The program shall:||(a) Provide and coordinate services designed to assist pupils in the successful completion of high school.||(b) Encourage individual, corporate, and state support and involvement to promote employment opportunities for New Hampshire's students.||(c) Render assistance in ensuring student placement in quality jobs with ample career opportunities.||(d) Encourage students to pursue postsecondary education by assisting in securing appropriate part-time work to accompany that education.||(e) Encourage lifelong learning by introducing students to the importance of skills training and demonstrating how learning is relevant to skills necessary in the workplace.||(f) Provide tutoring, study skills training, and instruction leading to successful completion of secondary school, including dropout prevention strategies through a school-site mentor.||(g) Provide alternative secondary school services with high academic standards.||(h) Deliver pre-employment and work maturity skill training, paid and unpaid work, work-based learning experiences that teach all aspects of industry-specific and general workplace competencies, including internships, job shadowing, and school sponsored workplace mentoring.||(i) Provide opportunities which may include community service and peer- centered activities encouraging responsibility and other positive social behaviors during non-school hours, including linking youth and adult mentoring, as appropriate.||(j) Provide support services and transitional links that assist students in the elimination of barriers.||(k) Establish an 85 percent graduation rate, and a 90 percent return to school rate as performance goals for program participants most likely to drop out. "Graduation rate" means the number of seniors who receive a diploma from a high school divided by the number enrolled in this program at such high school. "Return to school rate" means the percentage of students in grades 9-11 enrolled in the program who return to school for the next school year.||II. The commissioner of the department of education shall adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A, relevant to the implementation of this subdivision. Such rules shall include:||(a) Procedures for securing funds for participating entities.||(b) Methods for tracking compliance with program goals and reporting performance outcomes.|||Source. 2003, 288:1, eff. Sept. 16, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:60 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:60 - Repealed by 2020, 37:4, XIV, eff. July 29, 2020.

    189:60 Repealed by 2020, 37:4, XIV, eff. July 29, 2020. –|
NH Rev Stat § 189:61 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:61 - Local Matching Funds Required.

    189:61 Local Matching Funds Required. –||A school district may receive dropout prevention and dropout recovery services by a favorable vote of its legislative body authorizing the expenditure of not less than 10 percent of estimated program costs for such school district.|||Source. 2003, 288:1, eff. Sept. 16, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:62 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:62 - Eligible Program Participants.

    189:62 Eligible Program Participants. –||I. All programs shall be eligible to apply for dropout prevention and dropout recovery programs and funds under this subdivision, provided that such programs and funds shall be targeted, to the extent available, to those high schools with the highest dropout rate, as determined by the department of education.||II. Program participants shall be certified by the department of education according to the following criteria:||(a) Programs which focus on youth development strategies.||(b) A minimum of 3 years and preferably 10 or more years of experience at the state and national levels in providing dropout prevention and dropout recovery programming to at-risk youth.||(c) Experience in program delivery in both rural and city high schools in New Hampshire.||(d) Programs shall be existing operations with boards of directors.||(e) Documentable accountability and performance measures with supporting data.||(f) State or national recognition for dropout prevention or dropout recovery.||(g) Ability to provide multiple sources of funds for the purposes of expansion and efficiency of service delivery.||(h) Programs which are members of the National Career Association.||(i) Provide nationally normed outcomes in the following areas:||(1) Basic academic competencies.||(2) Career development.||(3) Job attainment.||(4) Leadership and self development.||(5) Personal skills.||(6) Job survival competencies.||(j) Connection with an established tracking and reporting system.|||Source. 2003, 288:1, eff. Sept. 16, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:63 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:63 - Repealed by 2020, 37:4, XIV, eff. July 29, 2020.

    189:63 Repealed by 2020, 37:4, XIV, eff. July 29, 2020. –|
NH Rev Stat § 189:69 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:69 - Repealed by 2014, 143:2, eff. July 1, 2015.

    189:69 Repealed by 2014, 143:2, eff. July 1, 2015. –|
NH Rev Stat § 189:71 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:71 - Military Uniform.

    189:71 Military Uniform. –||A student shall have the right to wear a dress uniform issued to the student by a branch of the United States armed forces while participating in the graduation ceremony for the student's high school if that student meets the following requirements:||I. The student has fulfilled all of the requirements for receiving a high school diploma in the state of New Hampshire and the school district and is otherwise eligible to participate in the graduation ceremony.||II. The student has completed basic training for and is an active member of a branch of the United States armed forces.|||Source. 2016, 32:2, eff. July 1, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:72 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:72 - Child Abuse or Neglect Information.

    189:72 Child Abuse or Neglect Information. –||The school board of each public school and chartered public school shall post in a clearly visible location in a public area of the school that is readily accessible to students a sign that is provided in an electronic or printed form by the division for children, youth, and families, and that contains the telephone number operated by the New Hampshire division for children, youth, and families of the department of health and human services, to receive reports of child abuse or neglect and instructions on how to access the division for children, youth, and families website.|||Source. 2017, 245:1, eff. Sept. 16, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:73 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:73 - Family and Medical Leave Coverage.

    189:73 Family and Medical Leave Coverage. –||A school district employee who has been employed by the school district for at least 12 months and who has worked at least 900 hours in the previous 12-month period shall be eligible for family and medical leave under the same terms and conditions as leave provided to eligible employees under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (Pub. L. 103-3), 29 U.S.C. section 2611, et seq., as amended.|||Source. 2019, 346:324, eff. June 30, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 190:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 190 - Council for Teacher Education|Section 190:1 - Establishment.

    190:1 Establishment. –||An advisory and coordinating council for teacher education, hereinafter called the council for teacher education, is hereby established.|||Source. 1951, 143:1, eff. June 6, 1951.|