NH ranks 46th in school funding equity, according to national study
According to a Quality Counts study, New Hampshire ranked in the bottom five for equity in education, partly due to the over-reliance on local...
Learning Policy Institute: 50 years after Kerner Commission, school funding in...
School funding in many states is "profoundly unfair" and not allocated to the students and districts that need it most, according to a report...
Franklin proposes programming & teacher cuts to make up for budget...
Franklin, a small town just north of Concord, eliminated seven positions to make up from a budget shortfall resulting in part from the reduction...
Districts to receive $1.5 million in state funding as a result...
Over 150 New Hampshire districts will receive a total of $1.5 million in additional state education funding, resulting from an audit that the Department...
Reliance on property taxes for school funding creates an inequitable system,...
Attorney John Tobin highlighted worsening inequities in New Hampshire's schools in an article reposted by InDepthNH. Tobin, who argued the landmark Claremont case in...
ConVal superintendent urges legislature to fund public education
ConVal Superintendent Kimberly Saunders spoke against HB 1636, the statewide voucher bill, and urged the legislature, Governor, and Commissioner to "properly" fund public education...
Senate version of voucher bill significantly increases financial impact on local...
Late last Thursday in the State Legislature, after the House killed SB 193, the statewide voucher bill by sending it to interim study, the...
Senate approves $10 million in additional funding for school security
According to the Union Leader, the Senate approved an additional $10 million in funding to "harden" security in public schools:
The action came when senators...
School funding lawsuit “urgently needed,” says Claremont attorney
Attorney John Tobin, one of the lawyers who argued the landmark Claremont case, is urging others to join in a school funding lawsuit. That...
Keno-garten funding hasn’t moved the needle for full-day programs in these...
Last year, the state legalized Keno to increase funding for full-day kindergarten programs in a bill referred to as "Keno-garten." In previous years, districts would...
