Each year since 1998, the National Education Association (NEA) has sponsored the Read Across America program to celebrate reading and literacy on March 2nd, the birthday of beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss. But this March, due to the recent gun legislation passed by the NH Republican House majority, the tradition of NH legislators reading books written by Dr. Seuss to selected fourth graders at the State House, has been canceled by the state chapter of the NEA. (Continued below)
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