requiring the department of education to establish an auditing process relative to teacher preparation programs at the post-secondary educational level.
HB 1828 requires New Hampshire's Department of Education to create an auditing process for teacher preparation programs at colleges and universities. The audit ensures these programs teach research-backed literacy instruction (including phonics, fluency, and vocabulary) aligned with the science of reading. The department must develop metrics to evaluate how effectively programs teach these methods and publish the results online. This directly affects all post-secondary institutions offering teacher training in New Hampshire.
Bill status
passed both
4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2025
Committee Review
May 2026
House Passage
Mar 2026
Senate Passage
May 2026
Governor
Introduced Dec 18, 2025
Last action May 7, 2026
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As Amended by the House
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MINOR
The Senate amended HB 1828 to fold the literacy audit into existing professional educator preparation program (PEPP) reviews rather than requiring the department to develop a separate auditing process. It also narrowed the scope from 'every' educator preparation program to 'every applicable' one, and shifted the burden of providing metrics onto institutions of higher education. These changes reduce the administrative burden on the state department and limit which programs are subject to the audit.
REQUIREMENT
Instead of developing a new standalone auditing process, the department must now include the literacy audit within existing PEPP reviews, reducing the need for a separate infrastructure.
Added explicit language requiring institutions of higher education to provide the metrics documenting science-of-reading alignment, shifting the data-collection burden from the department to the institutions themselves.
SCOPE
Changed from 'every educator preparation program' to 'every applicable educator preparation program,' narrowing which programs are subject to the literacy audit requirement.
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Committee
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May 7, 2026
Upper · Passed
Ought to Pass: MA, VV; 05/07/2026; SJ 11
upper
Apr 29, 2026
Upper · Passed
Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/07/2026, Vote 7-0; SC 17
upper
Apr 23, 2026
Upper · Passed
Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1509s, MA, VV; Refer to Finance Rule 4-5; 04/23/2026; SJ 10
upper
Apr 23, 2026
Upper · Passed
Committee Amendment # 2026-1509s, AA, VV; 04/23/2026; SJ 10
upper
Apr 15, 2026
Upper · Passed
Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1509s, 04/23/2026, Vote 4-1; SC 15
upper
Mar 17, 2026
Introduced
Introduced 03/12/2026 and Referred to Education; SJ 7
upper
Mar 11, 2026
Lower · Passed
Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-1109h: MA DV 185-149 03/11/2026 HJ 7 P. 138
lower
Mar 4, 2026
Lower · Passed
Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
lower
Mar 4, 2026
Lower · Passed
Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass 03/02/2026 (Vote 10-8; RC) HC 10 P. 38
lower
Dec 18, 2025
Introduced
Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Education Policy and Administration HJ 1 P. 38
lower
1 primary · 7 co-sponsors
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