NH House Votes to Expand Education Freedom Accounts Program

House puts forward its version of EFA expansion

Eliminating an income-eligibility cap on families that can receive taxpayer-paid Education Freedom Accounts cleared its final hurdle in the House of Representatives Thursday.

NH House Votes to Expand Education Freedom Accounts Program

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org CONCORD — By a slim margin, the House Thursday approved expanding the Education Freedom Account program to every child in the state in the second year of the next biennium. House Bill 115 would also increase the current salary cap from 350 percent of the federal poverty limit to 400 percent for next school year, which House budget writers estimate will cost $17.5 million more than Gov. Kelly Ayotte proposed in her b…