What happens when “school choice” collides with disability rights, school funding, and supporting students with disabilities? Whose choice is it, actually?

Liz talks with ABLE New Hampshire Executive Director Dr. Louis Esposito about special (supportive!) education, EFAs, open enrollment...which is perfectly timed after last week's committee of conference change-up.

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Links:

• ABLE New Hampshire
• 2026 Disability Pride Parade and Festival at the NH State House, July 18th
• Bill Watch: HB 751 (Reaching Higher NH)
• School Funding Fairness: A Look at Education Funding Inequity in New Hampshire (New Hampshire Center for Justice & Equity)
• School Funding and Special Education: It Continues to Get Worse (NH School Funding Fairness Project)
• As New Hampshire education freedom accounts double, percentage of low-income recipients drops (NH Bulletin)
• How Special Education Funding is Supported in the State Budget (New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute)
• Annual Beginning of School Year Education Freedom Account Enrollment and Enrollment Change: 2022 to 2026 (NH Department of Education, Division of Analytics and Resources)
• Special Education Data (NH Department of Education)
• Republican lawmakers agree on school open enrollment bill, but governor has concerns (WMUR)
• The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Previous episodes referenced: 

• The ABCs of EFAs (School Vouchers) with Christina Pretorius
• Disability Rights with Patricia Vincent-Piet
• Making School Funding Fair (and why it's not yet) with Zack Sheehan

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