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Panel weighs HB90 to let college faculty teach limited hours in high schools for concurrent enrollment
Summary
The committee heard HB90 to allow University System and Community College adjuncts to teach up to 20 hours a week in K–12 classrooms for concurrent enrollment, subject to criminal-background checks and college approval.
The House Education Policy Committee heard testimony on HB90, a bill to authorize faculty employed by the University System of New Hampshire or the Community College System of New Hampshire to teach part-time in K–12 settings for concurrent or dual-enrollment courses under specified conditions.
Representative Rick Ladd, sponsor, told the committee the measure aims to expand access to college-level courses in high schools that otherwise lack master’s-level instructors in advanced math, science or other subjects. “This is where that college level person, the adjunct or the professor, associate professors can come down and do this,” Ladd said, framing the bill as a student-access measure and not an effort to displace full-time K–12 staff.
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