Public education that is accessible to all children and adults in New Hampshire helps ensure a strong foundation for the health, prosperity, and overall wellbeing of all Granite Staters. Investments in public education from kindergarten to higher education have the potential to provide long-term positive returns to local communities, their residents, and the overall New Hampshire economy. Funding education systems that foster attainment and learning, while encouraging every student to succeed, will broaden individual opportunities and provide New Hampshire with a skilled workforce.
NHFPI focuses on funding for public education in New Hampshire, and the importance of ensuring equitable access to opportunity so that all Granite State children and adults have the skills that will enable them to prosper.
Family income eligibility for New Hampshire’s Child Care Scholarship Program was expanded under the State Fiscal Years (SFYs) 2024-2025 biennium budget. A Granite State family of three making up to $89,180 may be able to participate in the program and have the amount they spend on child care capped at 7 percent of their income, ...
New Hampshire families with an infant in center-based care paid an average annual tuition of $17,250 in 2023, according to recent estimates from Child Care Aware of America (CCAoA). Combined with preschooler tuition, which averaged $14,618 in 2023, Granite State families with two young kids faced center-based child care prices that amounted to nearly $32,000 ...
The recent eligibility expansion for the NHCCSP helps ensure more New Hampshire families can afford child care prices, despite steep annual tuition increases. Under the expanded guidelines, a family of three earning up to $89,180 will spend no more than 7 percent of their household income on child care cost sharing, which is the proportion ...
Newly-released data revealed that the price of child care in New Hampshire continued to rise in 2023. The national organization Child Care Aware of America (CCAoA) estimated that New Hampshire ...
Presented by Nicole Heller, Senior Policy Analyst at the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute, to the New Hampshire Alliance of Early Childhood Coalitions Convening on May 13, 2024.
Recently published projections from New Hampshire Employment Security suggest that turnover for child care workers may be higher than for Granite State occupations overall. Turnover is the combination of child ...