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Article: School funding law unclear, lawyers say; 'Adequate education'not explicitly defined
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- Concord Monitor
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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Without defining an "adequate education," it's impossible to
figure out how much money to spend on New Hampshire schools or if the
state is spending enough, lawyers for a coalition of 19 school
districts and towns unhappy with the state's most recent school
funding law said yesterday.
The coalition sued the state last year over its school funding
law. Lawyers argued that the law should be thrown out because it
fails to define and cost out an adequate education, as ordered by
previous state Supreme Court decisions. A superior court judge agreed
in March and declared the law unconstitutional.
But the state's attorneys quickly appealed the decision of
Hillsborough County Superior Court Judge ...