New Hampshire School Boards Association

New Hampshire School Boards Association
Resolutions for 2012

Adopted by the 2012 NHSBA Delegate Assembly - January 14, 2012

Education Funding:

NHSBA opposes legislation that would directly or indirectly divert state costs or responsibilities to local school districts, including unfunded state aid programs (e.g. catastrophic aid and building aid), and the state share of retirement contributions. (2011)

Local Control and School District Autonomy:

NHSBA supports new legislation or administrative rules that impose penalties against school district employees who breach their employment contracts. (2011)
NHSBA opposes any branch of New Hampshire government adopting or supporting curriculum standards that usurp state’s rights and de-emphasize and limit local control of curriculum and local school board oversight. (2011)
The NHSBA supports legislation to allow local school districts to retain a percentage of their year-end unreserved fund balance in the same manner as local municipal governments. (2011)

School Safety:

NHSBA supports legislative action to remove the unfunded mandated provisions of RSA 193-F, Pupil Safety and Violence Prevention. The imposition of these new mandates and their related financial costs, without additional state funding, violates the New Hampshire Constitution, Part First, Article 28-a. (2011)

Public Pension System:

NHSBA supports the continuing existence of the New Hampshire Retirement System (NHRS). The NHRS should be strong, secure, solvent, and fiscally sustainable. To achieve this goal, NHSBA supports legislation that will strengthen NHRS’s solvency, including legislation to change how an employee’s average final compensation is determined. NHSBA supports a calculation using an average of the highest five years for all employees retiring after July 1, 2016. NHSBA further supports legislation requiring that all NHRS rate increases, above those attributable to the $2.4 billion unfunded liability agreed to by public employers in 2007, be shared equally between employees and employers. (2011)

Accountability:

The Strafford School Board, on behalf of all school districts in New Hampshire, would like the NHSBA to petition to change the date of the NECAP state testing from an October testing date to a date in May. (2012)