Posts by Laura A. Kiernan
Courts and legislatures in 45 states, including New Hampshire, have been battling it out for decades about whether schoolchildren have been denied the opportunity for an equal education.
“There is nothing good about our current formula,” commission member William Ardinger told the fellow commissioners last week. “If we don’t get a formula that drives more money to Manchester, something’s wrong,” he said.
Twenty-five school districts, including Concord, Manchester and Nashua, and the state School Boards Association have now joined forces in the latest education financing lawsuit and asked the state Supreme Court to set a deadline for the legislature to reform the current school funding formula and “end the injustice and unfairness that continue to afflict our school children and our taxpayers.”