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NH Rev Stat § 193-F:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-F - Pupil Safety and Violence Prevention|Section 193-F:2 - Purpose and Intent.

    193-F:2 Purpose and Intent. –||I. All pupils have the right to attend public schools, including chartered public schools, that are safe, secure, and peaceful environments. One of the legislature's highest priorities is to protect our children from physical, emotional, and psychological violence by addressing the harm caused by bullying and cyberbullying in our public schools.||II. Bullying in schools has historically included actions shown to be motivated by a pupil's actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry or ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, physical, mental, emotional, or learning disability, gender, gender identity and expression, obesity, or other distinguishing personal characteristics, or based on association with any person identified in any of the above categories.||III. It is the intent of the legislature to protect our children from physical, emotional, and psychological violence by addressing bullying and cyberbullying of any kind in our public schools, for all of the historical reasons set forth in this section, and to prevent the creation of a hostile educational environment.||IV. The sole purpose of this chapter is to protect all children from bullying and cyberbullying, and no other legislative purpose is intended, nor should any other intent be construed from the enactment of this chapter.|||Source. 2000, 190:1. 2010, 155:1, eff. July 1, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-F:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-F - Pupil Safety and Violence Prevention|Section 193-F:3 - Definitions.

    193-F:3 Definitions. –||In this chapter:||I. (a) "Bullying" means a single significant incident or a pattern of incidents involving a written, verbal, or electronic communication, or a physical act or gesture, or any combination thereof, directed at another pupil which:||(1) Physically harms a pupil or damages the pupil's property;||(2) Causes emotional distress to a pupil;||(3) Interferes with a pupil's educational opportunities;||(4) Creates a hostile educational environment; or||(5) Substantially disrupts the orderly operation of the school.||(b) "Bullying" shall include actions motivated by an imbalance of power based on a pupil's actual or perceived personal characteristics, behaviors, or beliefs, or motivated by the pupil's association with another person and based on the other person's characteristics, behaviors, or beliefs.||II. "Cyberbullying" means conduct defined in paragraph I of this section undertaken through the use of electronic devices.||III. "Electronic devices" include, but are not limited to, telephones, cellular phones, computers, pagers, electronic mail, instant messaging, text messaging, and websites.||IV. "Perpetrator" means a pupil who engages in bullying or cyberbullying.||V. "School property" means all real property and all physical plant and equipment used for school purposes, including public or private school buses or vans.||VI. "Victim" means a pupil against whom bullying or cyberbullying has been perpetrated.|||Source. 2000, 190:1. 2004, 205:1. 2010, 155:2, eff. July 1, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-F:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-F - Pupil Safety and Violence Prevention|Section 193-F:5 - Training and Assessment.

    193-F:5 Training and Assessment. –||I. Each school district and chartered public school shall provide:||(a) Training on policies adopted pursuant to this chapter, within 9 months of the effective date of this section and annually thereafter, for school employees, regular school volunteers, or employees of a company under contract to a school, school district, or chartered public school who have significant contact with pupils for the purpose of preventing, identifying, responding to, and reporting incidents of bullying or cyberbullying; and||(b) Educational programs for pupils and parents in preventing, identifying, responding to, and reporting incidents of bullying or cyberbullying. Any such program for pupils shall be written and presented in age appropriate language.||II. The department of education shall provide evidence-based educational programs to support training as required under paragraph I.||III. Nothing in this chapter shall require the inclusion of any specific curriculum, textbook, or other material designed to prevent bullying or cyberbullying in any program or activity conducted by an educational institution. The omission of such subject matter from any curriculum, textbook, or other material in any program or activity conducted by an educational institution shall not constitute a violation of this chapter.|||Source. 2002, 149:2. 2010, 155:2, eff. July 1, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-F:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-F - Pupil Safety and Violence Prevention|Section 193-F:6 - Reporting.

    193-F:6 Reporting. –||I. Each school district and chartered public school shall annually report substantiated incidents of bullying or cyberbullying to the department of education. Pursuant to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 20 U.S.C. 1232g, such reports shall not contain any personally identifiable information pertaining to any pupil. The department shall develop a form to facilitate the reporting by school districts and chartered public schools. The department shall maintain records of such reports.||II. The department of education shall prepare an annual report of substantiated incidents of bullying or cyberbullying in the schools. The report shall include the number and types of such incidents in the schools and shall be submitted to the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the chairpersons of the house and senate education committees. The department of education shall assist school districts with recommendations for appropriate actions to address identified problems with pupil safety and violence prevention.|||Source. 2010, 155:3, eff. July 1, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-F:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-F - Pupil Safety and Violence Prevention|Section 193-F:7 - Immunity.

    193-F:7 Immunity. –||A school administrative unit employee, school employee, chartered public school employee, regular school volunteer, pupil, parent, legal guardian, or employee of a company under contract to a school, school district, school administrative unit, or chartered public school, shall be immune from civil liability for good faith conduct arising from or pertaining to the reporting, investigation, findings, recommended response, or implementation of a recommended response under this chapter. The department of education shall be immune from civil liability for its good faith conduct in making recommendations under this chapter.|||Source. 2010, 155:3, eff. July 1, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-F:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-F - Pupil Safety and Violence Prevention|Section 193-F:8 - School District Discrimination or Harassment Policies.

    193-F:8 School District Discrimination or Harassment Policies. –||A school district or chartered public school may establish separate discrimination or harassment policies that include categories of pupils, and nothing in this chapter shall prevent a school district or chartered public school from remediating any discrimination or harassment based on a person's membership in a legally protected category under local, state, or federal law.|||Source. 2010, 155:3, eff. July 1, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-F:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-F - Pupil Safety and Violence Prevention|Section 193-F:9 - Private Right of Action Permitted.

    193-F:9 Private Right of Action Permitted. –||Any person aggrieved as a result of gross negligence or willful misconduct in violation of any provision of RSA 193-F:4 may initiate an action against a school district or chartered public school and may recover court costs and reasonable attorney's fees as the prevailing party. For the purposes of this chapter, "gross negligence" means deliberate indifference. Nothing in this section shall supercede or replace existing rights or remedies under any other law.|||Source. 2010, 155:3, eff. July 1, 2010. 2021, 164:1, eff. July 30, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-F:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-F - Pupil Safety and Violence Prevention|Section 193-F:10 - Public Academies.

    193-F:10 Public Academies. –||The provisions of this chapter shall apply to public academies as defined in RSA 194:23.|||Source. 2010, 155:3, eff. July 1, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-G:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-G - Persistently Dangerous Schools|Section 193-G:1 - Persistently Dangerous Schools.

    193-G:1 Persistently Dangerous Schools. –||I. A persistently dangerous school is a school in which 3 of the following acts have occurred as separate incidents during the period of one school year for 3 consecutive years:||(a) Homicide under RSA 630.||(b) First or second degree assault under RSA 631:1 and RSA 631:2.||(c) Aggravated felonious sexual assault under RSA 632-A:2.||(d) Arson under RSA 634:1.||(e) Robbery as a class A felony under RSA 636:1, III; or||(f) Unlawful possession or sale of a firearm or other dangerous weapon under RSA 159.||II. Any act set forth in paragraph I must occur within the school or on school grounds, during regular school hours or during a school-sponsored event, or during transportation of pupils to or from school, if such transportation is provided by the school district.||III. No later than July 1 of each year, the commissioner of the department of education shall report any persistently dangerous schools to the state board of education and to the school board of such schools.|||Source. 2003, 186:1, eff. Aug. 25, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-G:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-G - Persistently Dangerous Schools|Section 193-G:2 - Citizen's Advisory Committee.

    193-G:2 Citizen's Advisory Committee. –|| If a school is classified as a persistently dangerous school, the local school board shall establish a citizen's advisory committee to examine the conditions which led to the designation and offer input to the school board and administrators on steps which might be taken to remedy the designation and prevent further incidents. The committee shall be appointed by the local school board chairman with the advice of the local school board members. It shall include but not be limited to the principal of the designated school, the superintendent of the designated school, one member of the school board, one teacher employed at the designated school, one law enforcement official from the police department having jurisdiction in the district in which the designated school is located, and representatives of parents whose children are assigned to the designated school. The committee shall serve until the designation of a persistently dangerous school is removed.|||Source. 2003, 186:1, eff. Aug. 25, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-G:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-G - Persistently Dangerous Schools|Section 193-G:3 - Removal of Designation.

    193-G:3 Removal of Designation. –||Any school which is designated a persistently dangerous school, which for 2 consecutive years has operated as a safe school, shall be decertified as a persistently dangerous school. For the purposes of this section, a safe school is a school which has not had the number or frequency of qualifying events set forth in this section.|||Source. 2003, 186:1, eff. Aug. 25, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-G:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-G - Persistently Dangerous Schools|Section 193-G:4 - School Choice.

    193-G:4 School Choice. –||I. Any school which is designated a persistently dangerous school shall, within 5 days of being notified of such designation, notify the parents or guardian of the pupil attending such school of the option to transfer the pupil from the school to a school within the same school district, consistent with local school board policy.||II. If a pupil is the victim of any offense set forth in RSA 193-G:1, I, the school district shall, within 5 days of being notified of the incident, notify the parents or guardian of the pupil of the option to transfer the pupil to another school within the same school district, consistent with local school board policy.|||Source. 2003, 186:1, eff. Aug. 25, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-G:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-G - Persistently Dangerous Schools|Section 193-G:5 - Department of Education Authority.

    193-G:5 Department of Education Authority. –||The commissioner of the department of education shall be the certifying authority under this chapter.|||Source. 2003, 186:1, eff. Aug. 25, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-G:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-G - Persistently Dangerous Schools|Section 193-G:6 - School Safety.

    193-G:6 School Safety. –||Schools shall be authorized to implement policies promoting school safety.|||Source. 2003, 186:1, eff. Aug. 25, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-H:1-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-H - School Performance and Accountability|Section 193-H:1-a - Purpose.

    193-H:1-a Purpose. –||I. The purpose of this chapter is to create an accountability model that will best support schools and educators as they work to enable all students to progress toward college and career readiness with clearly defined learning outcomes.||II. New Hampshire's student assessment system should promote and measure knowledge and skills that lead students to graduate from high schools ready for college and career.||III. Students best learn at their own pace as they master content and skills, allowing them to advance when they demonstrate the desired level of mastery rather than progressing based on a predetermined amount of seat time in a classroom will assure that students will reach college and career readiness.||IV. New Hampshire's system of educator support should promote the capacity of educators to deeply engage students in learning rigorous and meaningful knowledge, skills, and work-study practices for success in college, career, and citizenship.||V. Competency-based strategies provide flexibility in the way that credit can be earned and awarded and provide students with personalized learning, including those that are offered through on-line, blended, and community based opportunities.|||Source. 2013, 263:1, eff. Sept. 22, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-H:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-H - School Performance and Accountability|Section 193-H:2 - Statewide Performance Targets.

    193-H:2 Statewide Performance Targets. –||I. On or before the 2018-2019 school year, schools shall ensure that all pupils are performing at the proficient level or above on the statewide assessment as established in RSA 193-C.||II. In addition to the requirement of paragraph I, schools shall meet performance based indicators under this chapter, and statewide performance targets as approved by the legislative oversight committee established in RSA 193-C and thereafter, as established in rules adopted by the state board of education pursuant to RSA 541-A.||III. Notwithstanding RSA 541-A, the state board of education shall receive approval from the legislative oversight committee established in RSA 193-C prior to the submission of any rules to the joint legislative committee on administrative rules relative to statewide performance targets and performance based indicators required under this section.|||Source. 2003, 314:6. 2013, 263:3, eff. Sept. 22, 2013. 2018, 185:2, eff. Aug. 7, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-H:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-H - School Performance and Accountability|Section 193-H:3 - Identification and Public Disclosure of Targeted Support and Improvement Schools and Comprehensive Support and Improvement Schools.

    193-H:3 Identification and Public Disclosure of Targeted Support and Improvement Schools and Comprehensive Support and Improvement Schools. –||I. The commissioner shall annually compile and disseminate to the governor and council, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, local school boards, superintendents of schools, and the public, and shall make available on the department website, a list of targeted support and improvement schools and comprehensive support and improvement schools.||II. A school or school district designated by the commissioner as a targeted support and improvement school or a comprehensive support and improvement school shall have 30 days from the date of the report to appeal such designation to the state board of education.|||Source. 2003, 314:6. 2013, 263:4, eff. Sept. 22, 2013. 2018, 185:2, eff. Aug. 7, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-H:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-H - School Performance and Accountability|Section 193-H:5 - Powers of the Department of Education.

    193-H:5 Powers of the Department of Education. –|| Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to permit either the department of education or the state board of education to take control of the daily operations of any local public school.|||Source. 2003, 314:6, eff. July 22, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-I:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-I - Math Learning Communities Program in Public Secondary Schools|Section 193-I:1 - Program Established.

    193-I:1 Program Established. –||By July 1, 2019, the commissioner of education shall establish and encourage the implementation of a supplemental, 2-tier high school math program to be known as math learning communities, in order to meet the needs of any student who requires a better understanding of requisite math knowledge and skills and who has previously completed algebra I, but who lacks a strong foundation in mathematics to successfully transition from high school to college and career. Math learning communities shall be made available statewide to all public secondary schools. Students who would like to pursue a STEM career or postsecondary education program pathway but who are not ready to engage in mathematical reasoning and the application of math required in algebra II or other upper level math courses shall have access to this program of study and shall be encouraged to participate.|||Source. 2018, 305:2, eff. June 25, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-I:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-I - Math Learning Communities Program in Public Secondary Schools|Section 193-I:2 - Structure and Sequence.

    193-I:2 Structure and Sequence. –||I. Eligible students shall have completed or be near completion of algebra I. The department shall encourage every public high school in the state to administer the Next-Generation Acuplacer QAS exam to students who may benefit from this program as recommended by a school teacher or guidance counselor and a parent in the spring of grade 10. Students who score less than 63 and who have the recommendation of a teacher or guidance counselor and a parent may be assigned to course I, advanced math foundations. Students who score 63 or above shall be considered for either algebra II or course II, quantitative reasoning.||II. Course I, advanced math foundations, is a review and expansion of a student's understanding and ability to apply fundamental competencies in algebra, geometry, probability, and statistics. This course provides one math credit toward high school graduation.||III. Course II, quantitative reasoning, is a college level math course for students achieving a 63 or above on the Next-Generation Acuplacer QAS exam. This course can be taken through the concurrent dual enrollment program and upon satisfactory completion shall satisfy the math requirement for high school graduation and the math requirement associated with many degree programs at the community college system of New Hampshire. This course may be offered to students in grades 11 or 12.|||Source. 2018, 305:2, eff. June 25, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 193-I:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-I - Math Learning Communities Program in Public Secondary Schools|Section 193-I:3 - to 193-I:6 Repealed by 2020, 37:4, XVIII, eff. July 29, 2020.

    193-I:3 to 193-I:6 Repealed by 2020, 37:4, XVIII, eff. July 29, 2020. –|
NH Rev Stat § 193-J:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 193-J - Suicide Prevention Education|Section 193-J:1 - Legislative Purpose.

    193-J:1 Legislative Purpose. –||The general court finds that:||I. Suicide cuts across ethnic, economic, social, and age boundaries and has a tremendous and traumatic impact on surviving family members, friends, and the community at-large.||II. After unintentional injury, suicide is the leading cause of death among young people between the ages of 10 and 24. At a time when unintentional injuries have been on the decline, suicides have increased.||III. In 2008, the state board of education, under RSA 186:11, was charged with providing "information about youth suicide prevention to all public and private schools to facilitate the delivery of appropriate courses and programs."||IV. The legislature recognizes that suicide is a complex issue that requires school, family, and community resources to be harnessed for appropriate and timely help to be available to New Hampshire students in order to prevent suicide.||V. The purpose of this chapter is to reduce the number of suicides in our school population by ensuring that suicide prevention education and training is available to school personnel and to students and their parents using age-appropriate and evidence-based materials.|||Source. 2019, 315:1, eff. July 1, 2020.|