Education Funding Laws
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Current Law
The state
recently passed a new education funding law. It is called the "Gatsas Plan."
View
a spreadsheet of the distribution of state funds to communities
under the plan in Excel.
View a PDF file that shows the distribution
of the plan as compared to another funding provision (the Odell/D'Allesandro
bill rejected by the Senate.
View the New
Hampshire School Board Association's
description of the plan and the
State's adoption of it.
New Hampshire's
Attorney General advised the governor and legislative leaders last year that
the Gatsas plan and the prior
education funding law were unconstitutional.
View the news article
describing the attorney general's comments and
reactions from legislative leaders.
View the Attorney General's letter.
Read
the
Claremont Coalition's statement on the
prior
school funding bill and how the
State should be focusing its efforts on Funding the Gap. While there are some
differences between the prior law and the Gatsas plan, the sentiments in the
article apply to both.
New Proposals
The New
Hampshire School Boards Association provides explanations of pending education
funding bills and their status in a weekly
legislative bulletin.
The New
Hampshire Citizens' Voice Project performed a study of some proposed targeted
aid bills called
"Targeted Aid Plans Don't Fund the Gap, Who Will?"
You can view all the current education funding bills by going to the Bill Status page of the state house. Just type "education funding" in the Title field or type in the bill number. |