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The plaintiffs in the ConVal School District education suit on appeal to the state Supreme Court want the court to remove an amicus brief filed by the Speaker of the House and 30 other Republican lawmakers from the record.
US District Court Judge Landya McCafferty’s ruling will allow Parker Tirrell, 15, to continue to play soccer on Plymouth Regional High School’s girls’ soccer team and Iris Turmelle, 14, to try out for winter girls’ sports teams at Pembroke Academy.
By the grace of interest earned on federal and state money, state revenues ended the second month of the 2025 fiscal year with a surplus.
The arguments presented in the attorney general’s, Bradley’s and the 31 Republicans’ briefs urge the Supreme Court to at least review the two original Claremont education decisions and in the case of the lawmakers to overturn those decisions.
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.