SUNAPEE As the general election nears, advocates for New Hampshire school funding reform are increasing their community outreach to educate more residents about the ongoing battle over New Hampshire’s funding system for K-12 public schools, which.
My Turn: When tax changes seem impossible, how do we make education equitable?
Ralph Jimenez’s op-ed (
Monitor, Dec. 20) poignantly observes that New Hampshire did not have to spend a half-million dollars on a study to tell us what’s wrong with the way we fund our public schools.
We’ve pretty well understood the problem since before the state Supreme Court issued its Claremont I and II decisions back in the 1990s. (We always knew there was a rat. Now, with the completed study, we know exactly how many teeth the rat has and just how sharp they are.) What’s sorely missing from the study, however, is a careful presentation of alternatives to the current funding system, a system that perpetuates gross inequities in school expenditures and educational outcomes.