New Hampshire Bill Proposes Fewer Requirements For High School Graduation
From Forbes.com
A new bill in New Hampshire proposes reducing the requirements for an “adequate” education.
HB 283, “an act relative to the list of subjects that comprise an adequate education,” proposes to remove several subjects from the state’s educational requirements.
Under “Substantive Educational Content of an Adequate Education,” the bill removes the following courses:
Arts education, including music and visual arts
World languages
Engineering and technologies, including technology applications
Personal finance literacy
Computer science
Additionally, the social studies requirement would no longer include civics, government, economics, geography, history, and Holocaust and genocide education.
That leaves English/language arts and reading, mathematics, science, physical education, health and wellness education, and unspecified social studies.
The credits required for a high school diploma would be reduced from 13 to 8.
HB 283 was introduced on February 5. The bill’s sponsor is State Representative Dan McGuire. McGuire holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and has worked in the computer industry as well serving four years as an assistant professor of computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz.
He’s also a member of the Free State Project. Read the whole story here.