New Hampshire School Finance Plan Heads Back to Court

Dissatisfied with lawmakers’ latest cut at writing a permanent school funding law, 19 New Hampshire towns and school districts are taking the state to court—again.

The new lawsuits are the latest in a finance saga that began in 1991, when five communities with low property values sued the state, charging that its method of paying for schools was unfair because it relied heavily on local property taxes. The state supreme court in 1997 agreed, striking down the funding system and ordering lawmakers to come up...