Sununu signs school choice bill in Croydon ceremony

Gov. Chris Sununu on Thursday visited the Croydon Village School to sign legislation known as the “Croydon bill” that allows for some students to attend private school using public money.

More than 50 teachers, parents, children and school choice advocates crammed into the one-room K-4 schoolhouse that residents fondly refer to as “Little Red” in order to watch the event.

Now that Sununu has ratified the legislation – Senate Bill 8 – towns such as Croydon that lack a public school for certain grades may send their students to nonsectarian private schools and pay the tuition with tax dollars.

“Did they let you out of school today to come to this?” the governor asked a young boy, whose mother, Croydon School Board Chairwoman Angi Beaulieu, stood beaming behind him, before sitting down to sign the bill.

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