This is list of educational inadequacies that NH's school children face everyday was introduced into evidence during the May 1996 Superior Court Trial through the testimony of the school districts' teachers, principals, staff, superintendents and school board members.

CLAREMONT

1. The school district cannot afford to provide transportation for its kindergarten students.

2. Worn, dated textbooks some published 12 to 16 years ago, often have to be shared by the students. Approximately half of the high schools textbooks are over ten years old.

3. The high school's Alternative School is housed in several windowless rooms in the basement due to a shortage of class room space.

4. There is no curriculum development position in the high school, nor are there department head positions to plan and integrate the curriculum

5. There is no district wide curriculum development coordinator to coordinate the curricula of the elementary, middle and high schools.

6. While one third of all the first graders, 60 students, should be participating in the reading recovery program, the school district's resources permit only 15 students to participate in the program.

7. Only 1% of the school district's budget was made up of discretionary spending, 99% of the budget went to fund state and federal mandates.

8. In 1992, 41% of the children were eligible for the school lunch program. The school district established a breakfast program at the request of elementary school teachers so that children would be able to pay attention to the class work rather than be districted by their hunger.

9. Claremont has only 1% of the state's population but 10% of the state's multi- handicapped population. The school district is not reimbursed for educating theses students by the state's Catastrophic Aid programs until the following year.

10. The school district's budget is often frozen because of Special Education cost overruns.

11.The schools district's special education costs are over $1 million dollars a year. The state reimbursement runs between $50,000 and $100,000 annually.

12. Of the 130 computers at Stevens High School, 20 are restricted to a particular course and 70 do not work. The majority of the district's computers are Apple II-e's that were purchased when John Sununu was governor.

13. 56% of Steven's High School graduates go on to post secondary education institutions with only 38% going on to a four year college.

14. The high school has only $4800 budgeted for field trips for the entire school.

16. There have been no funds appropriated for building improvements at the high school in the last four years. Only seven classrooms are wired for technology use and 35 classrooms do not meet the state building codes for electrical wiring