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Yeah, Mel Thompson was governor When Jimmuh Carter got elected president.

One of the first things Carter did was to establish the Federal Dept. of Education as a gift to the teachers’ unions that got him elected.

One of the first things the Department of Education did was create the bi-lingual school program. The Dept. of Education would provide funds for bilingual education in the states.

Well, at the time in NH, about 20% of the state was French speaking, and a lot of the Catholic schools had bilingual French/English, and some of them were French only.

Mel Thompson applied for bilingual education funds on behalf of the State of NH. His request was denied because French was not one of the languages qualified for the program by the new Dept. of Education.

As a response, the State of NH did not participate in any Dept. of Education programs until demonRAT governor Hugh Galen took the reigns of government in 1979.