AmyLynne Aiken

HB1358 is a RADICAL bill that flies in the face of New Hampshire's long-standing history of maintaining local control and governance over just about everything, including public education. This bill aims to replace the local control over elected school board members who directly and immediately represent their tax-paying constituents in town to privately appointed charter school managers - thereby ELIMINATING tax payer representation in public education (which is likely the point). Talk about NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!! HOLY CROW! This is 2026 and NOTHING in this bill speaks to what Granite Staters want in regulation and governance. I vehemently OPPOSE this bill and expect members of the State House to recognize how radical this proposal is and how it removes local control, something we have maintained for hundreds of years. Perhaps if the gentleman proposing the bill would like to see this structure, he should relocate to a state that cares to relinquish its local control - because it isn't here in NH. It seems that he has forgotten who he represents and, if I were in his district, I would be positioning to replace him altogether for an idea as ridiculous as this one.