Analysts at the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies have gone through the numbers of the latest Education Funding Plan that's come out of the State House.
And they've found that on one level the House Bill 616 improves the situation for weathier and poorer towns.
But as NHPR's Mark Bevis reports, the losers in this plan are low-income homeowners.
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Rick Minard is the co-executive Director of the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies.
He's the author of the Center's latest report on the House Education funding plan.
Minoard says the bill would do a good job of moving money from weathier communities to those with less wealth.
On average, he says, in the weathiest communities, state aid would drop 29%.
And in the poorest communities, aid would go up 18%.
Across the board says Minard, for every town that's a winner, there would also be a loser.
The problem comes not from comparing town to town....but residents within towns.
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Rick Minard is the Co-Executive Director of the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies.
All this discussion about HB 616 may be for naught.
The Republican Leadership in the Senate is not very happy with the bill and some have even questioned its constitutionality.
If you'd like to see a copy of the new report, just go to our website at NHPR-dot-org.
For NHPR news, this is Mark Bevis.
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