ConVal school bus in snow Staff photo by Ben Conant
Published: 5/6/2021 4:32:35 PM
The Grantham School District and the Oyster River Cooperative School District will join the ConVal School District’s lawsuit filed against the State of New Hampshire over equitable education funding, ConVal announced in a press release Thursday.
The Grantham and Oyster River Districts join seven other co-plaintiff districts: Claremont, Fall Mountain, Hillsboro-Deering, Mascenic, Monadnock, Newport and Winchester.
The plaintiffs maintain that New Hampshire does not meet its constitutional obligation to provide adequate funding for all students. Plaintiffs argue that base adequacy is not sufficient to fund an adequate education and falls far short of funding services, positions, and items that the State requires school districts to provide. In 2019 districts received $3,636 per student in base adequacy.