In this section:
I. “Commissioner” means the commissioner of the department of education.

Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 193-E:3-a

  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
  • state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4

II. “Department” means the department of education.
II-a. “Genocide” means any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
II-b. “Holocaust” means the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately 6,000,000 Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
II-c. “Holocaust and genocide education” means studies on the Holocaust, genocide, and other acts of mass violence.
III. “Input-based school accountability system” means the certified narrative explanation describing how a school has demonstrated compliance with the school approval standards included in the opportunity for an adequate education required under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 193-E:3-b.
IV. “Performance-based school accountability system” means the scoring system required under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 193-E:3-b and implemented by the department in rules adopted pursuant to RSA 541-A.
V. “State board” means the state board of education.