NH ranked dead last in state education funding, 2nd in student-teacher ratio. Vt. is tops in both
Modified: 4/29/2021 11:04:55 PM
New Hampshire ranks among the best in the nation when it comes to low student-to-teacher ratio, a new national education report shows, but is dead last among all states when it comes to state funding for public education. Vermont, on the other hand, ranks first in both categories.
The National Education Association, the national labor union representing teachers, released its 2021 Rankings and Estimates report, which includes state-by-state data on education issues from the 2019-20 school year, and estimates about the 2020-21 school year.
N.H. ranks dead last in the nation for state education funding
A ConVal School District bus. (Benji Rosen/ Monadnock Ledger-Transcript) Benji Rosen
Published: 4/29/2021 4:39:56 PM
New Hampshire ranks among the best in the nation when it comes to low student-to-teacher ratio, a new national education report shows, but is dead last among all states when it comes to state funding for public education.
The National Education Association, the national labor union representing teachers, released its 2021 Rankings and Estimates report, which includes state-by-state data on education issues from the 2019-2020 school year, and estimates about the 2020-2021 school year.
New Hampshire has the lowest contribution of state money and the highest contribution of local money going to fund public education of all 50 states, according to the report. In the 2019-2020 school year, 31.4% of New Hampshire’s education funding came from the state level, while 63.7% came from local taxpayers
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 4/26/2021 3:35:19 PM
Four more school districts joined ConVal’s lawsuit against the state over education funding last week. The Fall Mountain, Claremont, Newport, and Hillsboro-Deering School Districts joined ConVal, Monadnock, Mascenic, and Winchester School Districts in their cause after Superior Court Judge David Ruoff allowed other school districts 30 days to join the lawsuit on Wednesday, April 21.
“For nearly 30 years the State of New Hampshire has ignored the spirit of the original Claremont funding decision. As a result it has shifted its responsibility to local communities, creating funding inequities across the state,” ConVal Superintendent Kimberly Rizzo Saunders said in a statement. “We welcome the Fall Mountain, Claremont, Newport and Hillsboro-Deering School Districts, and encourage other districts to join us in ensuring the state meets its constitutional responsibility to the children of New Hampshire.”