Jennifer Siegrist

Dear House Committee Members (and anyone else reading this testimony), I urge you to vote HB 1712 Inexpedient to Legislate. This bill is sponsored SOLELY by Kristin Noble, Chairman of this very committee. She is a representative who did not attend college, earn a college degree, or ever provide any evidence of having received a high school diploma, never mind any specialized knowledge, training, education, or certification in education pedagogy and/or administration. However, Kristin Noble is the same representative that proposed segregated schools in a private Signal chat discussing 2026 education policy (a clear violation of RSA91a). Whether proposing segregation by race, ideology or party affiliation, the Speaker of the House, or the legislative body as a whole, should immediately remove Ms. Noble from this committee or at the very least, from her Chair position on this committee for directly violating RSA 91a along with all four of the basic Principles of Public Service as noted in the New Hampshire General Court Ethics Statutes and Procedural Rules. How can any member of the public be expected to trust any member of this party, if the party and the leader allow any one of their own members to violate the very rules they have set for themselves like this and for so long? Beyond that, this bill would allow local public schools to convert to charter schools and stop providing all transportation, food services, special education programs and supports, and all other specialized services required by public schools. Also, collective bargaining for faculty and staff would become more difficult and these positions would receive lower wages, less qualified employees and higher turnover rates. Students, families, staff and communities would lose. Please don’t pass this damaging bill. Thank you in advance for your clear and unbiased consideration of this bill, and for voting in a way that best favors the majority interest of the 87% of your Granite State constituents that currently send their children to public schools.