HB 740 · 2025 · House · Education Policy and Administration Committee
Records for closed charter schools
AI-generatedrequiring the department of education to maintain student records of chartered public school students.
Requires the department of education to assume responsibility for maintaining student records of chartered public schools that have closed.AI-generated
Status
Killed in the House — Inexpedient to Legislate · March 26, 2025- ✓Introduced
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Analysis
This bill requires the department of education to assume responsibility for the maintenance of student records for chartered public schools that have closed.
From the bill's official ANALYSIS section.
In the bill's words
Quoted verbatim from the bill as introduced. Passages chosen from the operative text.Computed by this site
“For any school chartered by the state board of education pursuant to RSA 194-B:3-a, the department of education shall assume responsibility for the maintenance of student records when a school closes The department shall:”
“The department of education shall provide certified transcripts in a timely manner and at no cost, upon a request by the student or their current guardian.”
Official record
gc.nh.gov · the authoritative source
Sponsors
Public testimony
66 signed in online · 9 wrote testimony
91% support9% oppose0% neutral
In their wordsVerbatim, exactly as submitted
“This is common sense, Charter schools are public schools and thus records should be kept after the event of closure to ensure that students receive credit for work completed.”
“I am writing in support of HB740. This is a common sense effort to maintain records of all students regardless of where they attend school and should be required. Please vote YES on this bill.”
“I find it impossible to believe that this hasn’t always been the law. Of course they should.”
Verbatim excerpts of submitted testimony, quoted from the testimony tool.
Read the testimony · as of Aug 12, 2026
Votes
yeanay- Mar 12, 2025HouseCommittee report· consent calendar: Inexpedient to Legislate17–0Overall100% yea
- Mar 26, 2025HouseVoice voteInexpedient to Legislateadopted
Hearings and debates
- Feb 12, 2025Public hearingHouse Education Policy and Administration4:47:03–4:48:121m 9slocated in the stream transcriptPublic Hearing
- Mar 12, 2025Public hearingHouse Education Policy and Administration8:57–13:044m 7slocated in the stream transcriptCommittee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate; Executive Session
- Mar 26, 2025Floor debateHouse floorWatchnot located in the transcript — opens the full streamInexpedient to Legislate — adopted, voice vote
Timestamps locate where this bill is taken up in the chamber's YouTube stream.
Legislative history
- Jan 9, 2025HouseIntroduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Education Policy and Administration HJ 3 P. 25
- Feb 12, 2025HousePublic Hearing: 02/12/2025 01:45 pm LOB 205-207
- Mar 12, 2025HouseExecutive Session: 03/12/2025 10:00 am LOB 205-207
- Mar 12, 2025House: Inexpedient to Legislate 03/12/2025 (Vote 17-0; CC) HC 17 P. 12
- Mar 26, 2025HouseInexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 03/26/2025 HJ 10 P. 17
Coverage
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Background reading
Evergreen reading on the policy area — spanning perspectives — not coverage of this specific bill.
- What Are Charter Schools?Explainer
Education Week — A plain-language primer on how charter schools are funded and governed, and the tradeoffs of their independence.AI-generated
- National Charter School Study III (2023)Academic — national evidence
CREDO · Stanford — The most-cited national study of charter outcomes: charter students gained modestly more in reading and math than matched public-school peers, with special-education students an exception.AI-generated
- Key Conclusions from the New Orleans school reformsAcademic — the all-charter precedent
Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (Tulane) — Nonpartisan researchers' findings on what happened when New Orleans became the nation's only all-charter district — the one real-world analog to HB 1358's proposal.AI-generated
Education Next — A reform-oriented argument that district-wide charter conversion drove measurable gains in New Orleans and offers a model for other systems.AI-generated
Brookings — Analysis warning that charter-based choice — including in New Orleans — tends to modestly increase school segregation rather than reduce it.AI-generated
- Public Charter Schools in New HampshireNH context — official
NH Department of Education — The state's own overview of how NH's ~38 public charter schools are authorized, governed, and funded (state pays roughly $10k/pupil vs. ~$19k in districts).AI-generated
Documents (PDF)
Bill text & amendments link direct to gc.nh.gov; committee reports stream from the state record.