Take CACR 8 Off the Table and Pass It: Restore Educational Standards and Funding Decisions to the People
CACR 8, the best constitutional fix to the Claremont decision, did not get the necessary 239 votes to pass the House last month. The vote was 222-133, just 17 votes short. This bill is still alive, however, because it was Laid on the Table. Now that we’re past Crossover, the bill will require 2/3 of the House to remove it from the table, but incidentally, that’s about the same number of votes it will need to pass. Thus, there is still hope for this constitutional amendment. If CACR 8 passes, it would give the people the opportunity to restore Part 1, Article 6 of the N.H. Constitution to the meaning our state’s founders intended.
The amendment can be summed up as restoring the local control of educational standards and funding, restoring the authority of the Legislature to determine what standards and funding decisions should be made by the state, and removing the court from having anything to do with these decisions.
Please review the past Roll Call votes for this constitutional amendment and determine which legislators you might be able to call to change their minds on CACR 8.
Also, email HouseRepublicans@leg.state.nh.us, and ask all Republicans to continue supporting CACR 8.
Finally, e-mail the House Speaker and the Majority Leader and ask them to make passing CACR 8 part of their agenda.
Speaker: william.obrien@leg.state.nh.us
Majority Leader: betts24@gmail.com