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Article: Claremont gamesmanship must end.(Supreme Court's holding on funding adequate education)
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- New Hampshire Business Review
- Article date:
- July 21, 2006
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For more than a decade, New Hampshire's judges and its legislators have been engaged in a merry-go-round which I call "The Claremont Game."
Like the child's game of Simon Says, the leader (the Supreme Court) issues an ever-accelerating array of instructions and the followers (the Legislature) are rewarded according to how well they can follow the leader's instructions. The goal, of course, is for the Legislature to define and fund a so-called constitutionally adequate education.
The Claremont Game, however, is complicated by the fact that the judges are reluctant to make their instructions to the Legislature crystal clear because they are (rightly) ...