EFA expansion compromise achieves universal enrollment with a brake on growth - THE JOSIAH BARTLETT CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY

EFA expansion compromise achieves universal enrollment with a brake on growth - THE JOSIAH BARTLETT CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY

Though expanding Education Freedom Accounts to all New Hampshire students is a top Republican Party priority for this legislative session, differences between three competing plans produced an impasse. For weeks, doubts grew about Republicans’ ability to expand the program even though they controlled the governor’s office and both legislative chambers. On Wednesday, the House Finance Committee voted out a compromise intended to bring all sides t…