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SB180

Reflections On Education Legislation

by: Judie Reever

Wed Jul 22, 2009 at 15:03:21 PM EDT

(From one of our State Representatives who was in the trenches on this. The Democratic majority in the State Legislature worked very hard to comply with Claremonts I and II and the Londonderry Decision. The Republicans let it slide for fourteen years, doing nothing. Sound familiar? - promoted by Jennifer Daler)

When Governor John Lynch signed Senate Bill 180 into law on July 14, it marked the extraordinary completion of an almost 20-year struggle to meet the Supreme Court's ruling that the State of New Hampshire provide an adequate education for all students.

Senate Bill 180 was the last piece required to meet the state's obligation to the funding of education. The Court ruled that the legislature define an adequate education, cost it, fund it and put in place measures to ensure we are providing the opportunity for an adequate education.

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