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The federal government sued the state seeking a wide breadth of voter information including driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of Social Security numbers as well as addresses and other personal information much of which is confidential under state law.
But the oligarchs never gave up and developed a plan to bring themselves back to power. It started with Republicans taking over state legislatures, once the hallmark of Democrats and ended with the US Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court’s two Claremont Education rulings in the last century have not drastically changed the state’s public education system or the way it is funded.
The new administrator for the Youth Development Center settlement fund had to settle for $20 million instead of the $55 million he sought from the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee.
A program intended to be the access point for those with substance abuse addiction to services and treatment, did not collect enough data to determine its effectiveness, a performance audit found.
The plaintiffs in the Rand education funding case ask that two Supreme Court orders be reconsidered that allow Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald and Associate Justice Daniel Will to refuse to recuse themselves from the case now before the state’s highest court.
The services special education and disabled students receive in the Education Freedom Account program are not necessarily linked to those student’s needs.
Unfortunately, that unbiased opinion is currently thought to be more than slightly tainted judging by some of the decisions made by courts, particularly the US Supreme Court with the potential for tarnishing New Hampshire’s.
Lawmakers will be back for one more session to deal with Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s vetoes, and although it appears very unlikely, there is always the possibility of a special session for one emergency or another.