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The Speaker of the House and 30 other Republican lawmakers argue the state Supreme Court should overturn the landmark Claremont education decisions as the justices erred in determining the state had an obligation to provide every child with an adequate education and to pay for it
The federal dollars that help prevent a debilitating recession fueled state revenues, but now more than half of the states — including New Hampshire — are experiencing lower revenues than the year before.
“Parental rights” have been a long-running battlefield in the culture wars and last week’s New Hampshire Supreme Court’s decision will likely spur even more discussion next legislative session.
The data used by the Department of Education to flag nearly 25 percent of the eligibility decisions for Education Freedom Account students in a compliance report, will not be made available to the Legislative Budget Assistant’s Office for a performance audit of the program required by law.
While lawmakers await a performance audit of the Education Freedom Account program by the Legislative Budget Assistant expected later this year, a Department of Education compliance report done last fall, but released last month found enough issues to require the program’s administrator to reverify all participants’ applications for the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years.
The state says the ConVal education funding decision violates the constitution’s separation of powers provision and does not encompass the breadth of the state’s support for public education.
Federal, regional and local electric industry officials and regulators failed to do their duties to ensure fair and reasonable electric rates, a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court claims.
Private enterprise and free markets may not be the answer to everything as some would have you believe. There are some things that perform better when the bottom line is not the driving reason for corporate decisions.
The Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee approved the request for one-time support for eight Federally Qualified Health Centers and one similar center to address the continuing impact from the COVID pandemic.