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NH Rev Stat § 189:15-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:15-a - Purchase of School Insurance.

    189:15-a Purchase of School Insurance. –||The school board may purchase, at the expense of the district, accident or injury insurance covering all students while participating in any school activity or may make such insurance available at the option and expense of the parent or guardian of each student.|||Source. 1969, 104:3, eff. June 24, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:16 - Textbooks; Supplies.

    189:16 Textbooks;  Supplies. –||The school board shall purchase, at the expense of the city or town in which the district is situated, textbooks and other supplies required for use in the public schools; and shall loan the same to the pupils of such schools free of charge, subject to such regulations for their care and custody as the board may prescribe; and shall sell such books at cost to pupils of the school wishing to purchase them for their own use.|||Source. RS 73:11. CS 77:12. 1863, 27:21. GS 81:17. GL 89:11. 1883, 37:2. 1889, 13:1. PS 92:7. 1895, 90:3. 1921, 85, II:8. PL 117:14. RL 135:16.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:16-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:16-a - Menstrual Hygiene Products.

    189:16-a Menstrual Hygiene Products. –||I. The school district shall make menstrual hygiene products available at no cost in all gender neutral bathrooms and bathrooms designated for females located in public middle and high schools.||II. Menstrual hygiene products shall include sanitary napkins and tampons.||III. The school district shall bear the cost of supplying menstrual hygiene products. A school district may seek grants or partner with a nonprofit or community-based organization to fulfill this obligation.|||Source. 2019, 252:1, eff. July 17, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:17 - Flags; Penalty.

    189:17 Flags;  Penalty. –||The school board shall supply a United States and a New Hampshire state flag; the flags shall be made not less than 5 feet in length, with a flagstaff and appliances for displaying the same, for every schoolhouse in the district in which a public school is taught, at the expense of the district. They shall prescribe rules and regulations for the proper custody, care and display of these flags; the regulations shall require that wherever possible, the United States flag and the New Hampshire state flag shall be displayed on separate staffs of equal height. When the flags are displayed on the same staff, the United States flag shall be displayed above the New Hampshire flag. The regulations shall further require that such flags shall be displayed prominently outside of the schoolhouse. When they are otherwise displayed, the flags shall be placed conspicuously in the principal room of assembly of the schoolhouse. The governing board of every private school shall supply a United States flag, such flag to be made not less than 5 feet in length, with a flagstaff and appliances for displaying same. They shall make provisions similar to those required in the public schools for the display of said flag. Any members of a school board or the governing board who shall refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a violation.|||Source. 1903, 39:1. 1921, 85, II:9. 1925, 128:1. PL 117:15. RL 135:17. RSA 189:17. 1969, 104:4. 1971, 291:1. 1973, 531:45. 1977, 51:1, eff. June 13, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:17-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:17-a - Flags Provided by Other Than School District.

    189:17-a Flags Provided by Other Than School District. –||I. State agencies, private groups, or individual citizens may provide and have placed in a public school classroom an American flag or a New Hampshire state flag, or both, and appliances for displaying such flag or flags, where none is already displayed.||II. Upon receipt of an American flag or a New Hampshire state flag, or both, and appliances donated pursuant to paragraph I of this section, a school shall display such flag or flags in a classroom where none is already displayed.||III. The local school board shall have the authority to accept the donation of flags and appliances, and to determine the location of the flags in the classrooms.|||Source. 1988, 30:1, eff. March 24, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:17-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:17-b - Authority of Schools to Display the National and State Mottos.

    189:17-b Authority of Schools to Display the National and State Mottos. –||Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no power or authority of the state of New Hampshire, or any political subdivision thereof, shall in any way restrict, or be construed to restrict, the authority of any school or school district to display the national motto, "In God We Trust," or the state motto, "Live Free or Die," in any school building.|||Source. 2021, 161:1, eff. Sept. 28, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:18 - Patriotic Exercises.

    189:18 Patriotic Exercises. –||In all public schools of the state one session, or a portion thereof, during the weeks in which Memorial Day and Veterans Day fall, shall be devoted to exercises of a patriotic nature, which shall include a discussion of the words, meaning, and history of the Pledge of Allegiance and the Star Spangled Banner.|||Source. 1897, 14:1. 1921, 85, II:23. PL 117:16. 1933, 3:1. RL 135:18. 2016, 67:1, eff. July 4, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:18-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:18-a - Memorial or Memorial Plaque on School Property.

    189:18-a Memorial or Memorial Plaque on School Property. –||The placement of a memorial or memorial plaque on school property in memory of an alumnus of a junior high school or high school in the district who died honorably during active duty shall require approval from the school board or approval of a warrant article acted upon at the annual school district meeting. The cost for design, manufacture, installation, or maintenance of the memorial shall not be a charge to the state, any municipality, or the school district. This section shall not apply to the addition of names to already existing memorials or to plans for memorials initiated by the municipality or school district.|||Source. 2016, 77:1, eff. July 18, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:19 - English Required.

    189:19 English Required. –||In the instruction of children in all schools, including private schools, in reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, grammar, geography, physiology, history, civil government, music, and drawing, the English language shall be used exclusively, both for the purposes of instruction therein and for purposes of general administration. Educational programs in the field of bilingual education shall be permitted under the provisions of this section with the approval of the state board of education and the local school district.|||Source. 1919, 106:13. 1921, 85, II:10. PL 117:17. RL 135:19. RSA 189:19. 1969, 139:1. 1977, 110:1, eff. July 30, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:20 - Foreign Languages.

    189:20 Foreign Languages. –||A foreign language may be taught in elementary schools; provided, that the course of study (or its equivalent) outlined by the state board in the branches named in RSA 189:19 be not abridged but be taught in compliance with the law of the state.|||Source. 1919, 106:13. 1921, 85, II:10. PL 117:18. RL 135:20.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:21 - Language of Devotional Exercises in Private Schools.

    189:21 Language of Devotional Exercises in Private Schools. –||The exclusive use of English for purposes of instruction and administration shall not prohibit the conduct of devotional exercises in private schools in a language other than English.|||Source. 1919, 106:13. 1921, 85, II:10. PL 117:19. RL 135:21.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:22 - Copies of State Constitution and Election Laws to be Furnished.

    189:22 Copies of State Constitution and Election Laws to be Furnished. –||The secretary of state is hereby directed to furnish to the state board of education such number of copies of the state constitution and the election laws as may be necessary.|||Source. 1937, 31:1. RL 135:22.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:23 - Distribution.

    189:23 Distribution. –||The state board of education is hereby directed to distribute copies of the state constitution and election laws to all teachers of history and civics in the upper grades of elementary schools and to teachers of United States history in junior and senior high schools to be used by them in instructing their pupils relative to the laws governing election and voting.|||Source. 1937, 31:1. RL 135:23.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:24 - Standard School.

    189:24 Standard School. –||A standard school is one approved by the state board of education, and maintained for at least 180 days in each year, or the equivalent number of hours as required in the rules of the department of education, in a suitable and sanitary building, equipped with approved furniture, books, maps and other necessary appliances, taught by teachers, directed and supervised by a principal and a superintendent, each of whom shall hold valid educational credentials issued by the state board of education, with suitable provision for the care of the health and physical welfare of all pupils. A standard school shall provide instruction in all subjects prescribed by statute or by the state board of education for the grade level of pupils in attendance.|||Source. 1919, 106:24. 1921, 85, II:11. PL 117:20. RL 135:24. RSA 189:24. 1959, 133:3. 1971, 371:1. 2007, 71:2. 2011, 42:2, eff. July 8, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:25 - Elementary School.

    189:25 Elementary School. –||An elementary school is any school approved by the state board of education in which the subjects taught are those prescribed by the state board for the grades kindergarten through 8 of the public schools. However, a separate organization consisting of grades 7 through 9, or any grouping of these grades, may be recognized as a junior high school and so approved by the board. Also a separate organization consisting of grades 4 through 8 or any grouping of these grades may be recognized as a middle school and so approved by the state board. Any elementary school may include a kindergarten program which, if it is provided, shall precede the other elementary grades.|||Source. 1919, 106:25. 1921, 85, II:12. PL 117:21. RL 135:25. RSA 189:25. 1963, 288:1. 1971, 178:1. 2007, 71:2, eff. Aug. 10, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:25-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:25-a - Universal Service Fund; Definition of "School."

    189:25-a Universal Service Fund;  Definition of "School." –||For the purpose of obtaining discounts pursuant to the universal service fund, otherwise known as "E-rate" discounts, as established by section 254 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, "school" means any public or private elementary or secondary school, and any regional career and technical educational center designated under RSA 188-E, including educational programs offered at such career and technical educational centers for pre-kindergarten, adult education programs, and juvenile justice programs.|||Source. 2001, 84:1. 2015, 252:12, eff. July 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:26 - Books Excluded.

    189:26 Books Excluded. –||No book shall be introduced into the public schools calculated to favor any particular religious sect or political party.|||Source. RS 73:11, 12. CS 77:12, 13. GS 81:12. GL 89:12. PS 92:9. 1895, 50:5. 1921, 85, II:13. PL 117:22. RL 135:26.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:27 - Register.

    189:27 Register. –||The school board shall furnish to the responsible person a supply of blank registers provided by the state board.|||Source. RS 73:2. CS 72:2. 1861, 25:68. GS 81:14, 16. GL 89:15, 17. PS 92:10. 1921, 85, II:14. PL 117:23. RL 135:27. RSA 189:27. 1967, 448:2. 1971, 149:2, eff. July 25, 1971.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:27-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:27-a - Computerization of Pupil Registers.

    189:27-a Computerization of Pupil Registers. –||School boards, or the governing persons or governing bodies of public academies or non-public schools, may choose to maintain pupil registration and enrollment information through the use of a computer, instead of using a register provided by the state board of education. The software program for any such computer application shall be capable of providing in printed form at least the information required by RSA 186:11, VI.|||Source. 1988, 103:1, eff. July 1, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:27-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:27-b - Retention of Pupil Registers.

    189:27-b Retention of Pupil Registers. –||Pupil registers, whether kept manually or by means of a computer, shall be retained as a permanent record of the school district, public academy, or nonpublic school.|||Source. 1988, 103:1, eff. July 1, 1988. 2018, 223:2, eff. Aug. 7, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:28-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:28-a - Report to the Public.

    189:28-a Report to the Public. –||I. School boards shall publish in the next annual report, or post at the annual meeting, the general fund balance sheet from the most recently completed audited financial statements or from the most recently completed financial report filed pursuant to RSA 21-J:34, V.||II. In the case of an accumulated general fund deficit, the school board shall insert an article in the warrant recommending such action as they deem appropriate, which may include, but is not limited to, raising a sum of money for the purpose of reducing that deficit.|||Source. 1994, 147:5, eff. July 22, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:29 - Repealed by 1998, 389:11, eff. Oct. 1, 1998.

    189:29 Repealed by 1998, 389:11, eff. Oct. 1, 1998. –|
NH Rev Stat § 189:29-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:29-a - Records Retention and Disposition.

    189:29-a Records Retention and Disposition. –||Members of the school board shall establish a records retention and disposition schedule for all official records of the school district. If records are microfilmed, 2 films shall be made, properly labeled and stored in 2 different locations. At least one copy shall be stored in a fireproof container. Records which have been microfilmed may be retained or destroyed in accordance with the schedule determined by the members of the board. A complete record of all records destroyed or discarded shall be maintained along with notations of the methods and dates of disposal.|||Source. 1983, 94:1, eff. July 23, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:29-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:29-b - Identification and Accommodation of Gifted and Talented Students.

    189:29-b Identification and Accommodation of Gifted and Talented Students. –||I. In this section, "gifted and talented student" means a student identified as having unique academic, artistic, or athletic potential according to assessments selected and administered locally.||II. Beginning in the 2022-2023 school year, every New Hampshire public school shall submit to the department of education, no later than August 1, an annual narrative report detailing the policies, programs, and procedures that are in place to identify and accommodate the unique needs of gifted and talented students. If no such policies, programs, or procedures exist, the report shall so state.||III. The department shall develop a standardized format for the submission of such information and shall reassess the format each year to ensure the required information is useful. The department shall make the reports available on its public Internet website.|||Source. 2021, 139:1, eff. July 23, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:30 - Repealed by 1986, 41:29, V, eff. April 3, 1988.

    189:30 Repealed by 1986, 41:29, V, eff. April 3, 1988. –|
NH Rev Stat § 189:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:31 - Removal of Teacher.

    189:31 Removal of Teacher. –||Superintendents shall direct and supervise the work of teachers, and for cause may remove a teacher or other employee of the district. The person so removed shall continue as an employee of the district unless discharged by the local school board but may not return to the classroom or undertake to perform the duties of such person's position unless reinstated by the superintendent.|||Source. RS 70:10. CS 74:12. GS 79:14. GL 87:14. PS 92:2. 1919, 106:12. 1921, 85, II:4. PL 117:27. RL 135:31. RSA 189:31. 1969, 196:4. 1995, 174:3, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:32 - Appeal.

    189:32 Appeal. –||Any person so removed, unless dismissed by the school board, may appeal to the state board. The board shall prescribe the manner in which appeals shall be made, and when one is made shall investigate the matter in any way it sees fit, and make such orders as justice requires.|||Source. 1919, 106:12. 1921, 85, II:4. PL 117:28. RL 135:32. RSA 189:32. 1969, 196:5. 1986, 41:19, eff. April 3, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:33 - Conferences; Reports.

    189:33 Conferences;  Reports. –||It shall be the duty of superintendents to attend all conferences called by the state board. Each superintendent shall report to the proper officers any violation of the provisions of the laws of this state in reference to the public schools, school buildings, the employment of persons under 18 years of age who cannot read and speak the English language understandingly, the protection of children and violations of the rules and regulations prescribed by the state board for the efficient administration of the public schools.|||Source. 1919, 106:12. 1921, 85, I:4. 1925, 138:2. PL 117:29. RL 135:33. RSA 189:33. 1973, 72:13, eff. June 3, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:34 - Appointment.

    189:34 Appointment. –||I. School boards shall appoint truant officers for their districts.||II. School board policies on truancy shall include but not be limited to:||(a) A definition of "excused absence" and a process for considering exceptions to absences not otherwise excused.||(b) A process for intervention designed to address individual cases of truancy as quickly as possible and to reduce the number of habitual truants in the school district. The process shall consider whether school record keeping practices and notification provided to parents or guardians of the child's absences have an effect on the child's attendance. The board shall provide for the participation of parents in the development of the policy. The policy shall include early parental involvement in the intervention process. The policy shall also designate an employee in each school as the person responsible for truancy issues.|||Source. 1852, 1278. CS 78:2. GS 83:7. GL 91:7. 1881, 42:1. PS 92:15. 1899, 70:1. 1921, 85, II:17. PL 117:30. RL 135:34. 2010, 9:1. 2013, 249:14, eff. Sept. 1, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:35 - Term; Removal.

    189:35 Term;  Removal. –||Truant officers shall hold office for one year and until their successors are appointed, but they may be removed by the school board at any time for cause.|||Source. 1881, 42:2. PS 92:16. 1921, 85, II:18. PL 117:31. RL 135:35.|