Education Commissioner blasted for injecting culture wars into New Hampshire schools

The presidents of New Hampshire’s largest teachers unions had scathing feedback for embattled New Hampshire education commissioner Frank Edelblut this week after his response to a bombshell NHPR report that documented his efforts to steer the department toward political culture war fights.

Speaking at a NH Biden-Harris campaign event launching their educators for Biden coalition, the presidents of AFT-NH and NEA-NH — the largest unions representing teachers and school staff in the state — said a recent report by NHPR which detailed Edelblut’s attempts to ban books in New Hampshire classrooms and target individual teachers based on perceived political ideology, was fully accurate.

They also said that a response by commissioner Edelblut titled “Thank God someone is looking out for the children” posted to the NH Department of Education website was deeply inappropriate.

That response has garnered its own critical coverage in the Boston Globe this week.

“I think the NPR piece was very well researched and very on the money. And I think his self published rebuttal on the state website — which is not his personal website — was out of line and full of innuendo at the expense of our members. And it was disgusting,” said Deb Howes, President of AFT-NH.



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