Education Funding

El estado podría gastar más de $60 millones este año escolar en el programa, que permite a las familias usar los impuestos para cubrir los costos de escuelas privadas o educación en el hogar.

The state could spend more than $60 million this school year on the Education Freedom Account program, which allows families to use tax dollars for private school or homeschool costs.

New Hampshire students can still attend schools outside their district and take their local tax dollars with them – unless their community adopted policies in March preventing them from doing so.

The legislation would allow students to attend any school in the state and take their state education aid with them.

The introduction of an enrollment cap serves as the first legislative development since an earlier universal open enrollment bill suffered a surprise defeat in the New Hampshire House of Representatives last month.

A student’s home district would cover special education costs but their new district would pick up the cost for other accommodations.

The newest version of the open enrollment bill says local taxpayers wouldn't have to pay another school district to educate leaving students; instead, the student's state adequacy grant would leave the district with them.

The Attorney General’s Office plans to ask the state Supreme Court to overturn its two landmark Claremont school funding rulings from the 1990s, arguing they are an improper reading of New Hampshire's constitution.

A statutory change being pushed by State House Republicans, if upheld by state courts, would introduce a new interpretation of the state’s school funding obligations laid out in the Claremont Supreme Court decisions of the 1990s.

State House Republicans are fast-tracking a bill that would prohibit school districts from deciding whether to accept out-of-town students, or pay for students who leave the district.