The school funding model proposed by American Institutes for Research (AIR) and endorsed by the 2020 Commission to Study School Funding uses graduation rates among high schools as an important […]
The main purpose of schools is the formal education of our kids. Curricula, lessons, libraries, books, and teachers are the main tools that are part of that formal education. We […]
The New Hampshire Department of Education (DoE) recently published its first formal estimates of the adequate education grants cities and towns will receive in Fiscal Year 2023. Those estimates confirm […]
Negotiators from the House of Representatives and Senate have completed their work on New Hampshire’s FY2022-23 budget and are poised to present it to their colleagues for their approval when […]
Over the past several months, communities across New Hampshire have been forced to make wrenching decisions about local school finances, raising already-high property tax rates and cutting back the educational […]
In formulating its version of New Hampshire’s FY 2022-23 budget, the House Finance Committee identified an additional $100 million in resources for use within the Education Trust Fund. Rather than […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the education of New Hampshire’s 163,000 public school students and has put them at risk for lasting setbacks to their educational, emotional, and social development. […]
Communities across New Hampshire are bracing for significant declines in the amount of state education aid they will receive in the year ahead. As families and businesses across New Hampshire continue to struggle in the face of the pandemic, the Legislature must act to prevent these declines and to forestall sizable property tax increases.
New Hampshire’s current approach to school funding has more than a few shortcomings, but none is more glaring that the inequities it forces local property taxpayers to endure.