This is the culmination of years of work by SCAN and our supporters in New Hampshire and is a major victory for kids. Governor Sununu touted our efforts during the bill signing, saying “to have the Save the Children group on the ground here really made all the difference for us. It was someone that we could really lean on, that understood the pushes and pulls on the advocacy side…”
New Hampshire is the only Northeastern state with no state preschool and, until now, nearly half of the state’s five-year-olds didn’t have access to full-day kindergarten.
This bill is an important step toward ensuring that all children have an equal opportunity to succeed. SCAN is proud to have worked closely with leaders on both sides of the aisle, from Democratic state Senator David Watters, who wrote the original bill and has worked tirelessly for children throughout his career, to Governor Sununu, a Republican, who helped set a pro-kindergarten agenda back in February, to achieve this result for kids.
We will continue to push for policies that level the playing field for all children in New Hampshire, across the country and around the world.

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