school funding

New Hampshire spent proportionally less state money per student than any other state in the country, according to the report.

At least seven school districts have weighed per pupil caps. Voters in five are moving to defeat them.

The final tally was 1,435 to 113.

Oral arguments before the New Hampshire Supreme Court are scheduled for November.

With the court order calling for the state to spend millions more on public schools on appeal to the state's highest court, House lawmakers consider a plan from a GOP budget writer.

The Attorney General's office says if the order goes into effect, the state will be unable to fund schools.

Monday's decision is the latest in a decades-long fight over who should pay for public schools and how much that should cost.

The judge says the state should fund at least $7,356 per pupil – not the current $4,100. He also found the statewide education property tax unconstitutional.

The state is facing two major legal challenges to its education funding model.

Pressure has mounted on lawmakers for years to update New Hampshire’s “adequacy formula,” the structure that determines how much the state pays each public school district.