N.H. Lawmakers Still Seeking School Finance Solution

By Mary Ann Zehr

The upcoming session of the New Hampshire legislature should reveal whether the just-concluded November elections will change the state's response to the challenge of financing public education.

Nearly a year after New Hampshire's highest court declared the school funding system unconstitutional, the legislature has yet to come up with a plan to revamp it.

Some observers are hopeful the elections may have changed the balance of views enough to break a political and policy stalemate over the terms of any solution. Last year, the high court ordered the legislature not only to produce a new plan for financing schools, but also to carry it out,...