Reports
Presentations
Report
Briefs & Memos
- Costing Out an Adequate Education - A Primer
- Evaluating State School Finance Systems - An Introduction
- Using Cost Modeling to Inform Education Funding Formulas
- Setting Outcome Goals and Standards - From a Formal to Functional Definition of Adequacy
- State Finance Reform Vignette - Kansas
- Providing Adequate Funding Through Equitable Taxation - An Introduction
- State Finance Reform Vignette - New Jersey
- State Finance Reform Vignette - Vermont
- State Funding Formulas - A National Review
- Special Education Memo
- Considering Weight Adjustments to Account for Concentration of Student Needs Memo
- Eliminating the District Size Weight "Cliffs"
Simulator Modeling Tool & Public Use Data
Public Comment During Regular Commission Meetings and Dedicated Comment Sessions
- Public Comment from Regular Meetings (updated 10/1/20)
- 7/15/20 Public Comment
- 8/12/20 Public Comment
- 9/16/20 Public Comment
- 9/23/20 Youth Voice
- 9/30/20 Public Comment
- 10/7/20 Youth Voice Public Comment
- 10/7 Video
- Wilondja Written Comments
- Jhomar Written Comments
- Kritika Written Comments
- Fady Written Comments
- Bitokenja Written Comments
- Ederlin Written Comments
- Nathaniel Written Comments
- Paul Written Comments
- Sarah Written Comments
- Samuel Written Comments
- Sultan Written Comments
- Wagner Written Comments
- Helene Written Comments
- Faithful Written Comments
- Amanda Written Comments
- Yaneicis Written Comments
- Sawyer Written Comments
- 10/14/20 Public Comment
- 10/28/20 Public Comment Notes
- 11/18/20 Public Comment Notes
Public Comment from Qualtrics Comment Form
Public Emails Received at SchoolFunding.Commission@unh.edu
- Emails received at Commission email address (through 10/5/20)
- Emails received at Commisison email address (through 12/3/20)
- Emails received at Commission email address (through 5/24/21)
Other Public Comment
- Models for an adequate education PowerPoint, submitted to SchoolFunding.Commission email address
- Petition of Support - New Hampshire School Funding Fairness Project
- Letter from the Waterville Valley Board of Selectmen
- Comments on NH Supreme Court's Statements about the Relationship between "Local Control" and State Responsibility in Public Education from John Tobin
- Special Education Issues Memo provided by Gerald M. Zelin
- 11/29/20 Letter from Tara Coakley, Litchfield
- 11/22/20 Memo from NHSFFP
- 3/16/21 Hill Fair Funding Email
- 3/15/21 Michael Royce Email Comment
- 1984 Augenblick Report
- Shaheen EO 2000-2 Report: A Commission to Analyze the Economic Impacts of Various School FUnding Revenue Options
- New Hampshire's Quest for a Constitutionally Adequate Education (2006)
- 2008 Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Costing an Adequate Education
- 2018 Committee to Study Education Funding and the Cost of an Opportunity for an Adequate Education
Previous Rulings
- Claremont I (1993)
- Claremont II (1997)
- Sirrell (2001)
- Claremont (2002)
- Londonderry (2006)
- Dover (2016)
Ongoing ConVal Litigation
- Conval Superior Court Ruling (June 5, 2019)
- Defendant's Brief to the NH Supreme Court (February 18, 2020)
- Petitioner's Brief to NH Supreme Court (April 5, 2020)
- Brief of Amici School Districts (April 17, 2020)
- Appendix Amici - School Districts (April 17, 2020)
- ACLU-NH Amicus Brief (April 20, 2020)
Other Resources
National Policy Analyses & Resources
- Presentation from ECS to Commission Members (3-9-20)
- A Comprehensive Review of State Adequacy Studies Since 2003 (2014)
- Toward a Rich Data Future for School Finance Research (2019)
- Stanford Education Data Archive (2018)
- No Time to Lose: How to Build a World-Class Education System State by State (2017)
- Moving Mountains: Six Things to Consider When Updating Your K-12 School Finance Formulas (2019)
- 50-State Comparison: K-12 Funding
- Constitutional Obligations for Public Education (2016)
- The Workforce of the Future - Shaping Technology and Institutions (2019)
- School Finance Reform and the Distribution of Student Achievement (2016)
- Does School Spending Matter? The New Literature on an Old Question (2018)
- Schooling During the Great Recession: Patterns of School Spending and Student Achievement Using Population Data (2019)
- School Finance Reforms, Teacher's Unions and the Allocation of School Resources (2018)
- Spending More on the Poor? A Comprehensive Summary of State-Specific Responses to School Finance Reforms from 1990-2014 (2019)
- Who Benefits from Local Financing of Public Services? A Causal Analysis (2019)
- School District Operational Spending an Student Outcomes: Evidence from Tax Elections in Seven States (2019)
- Sharing the Wealth: How Regional Finance and Desegregation Plans Can Enhance Educational Equity (2019)
- Investing for Student Success: Lessons From State School Finance Reforms (2019)
- The Education Combination: 10 Dimensions of Education Resource Equity to Unlock Opportunities for Every Student (2019)
- ROI for After School Programs - ECS Information Request Response (2020)
- Improving Early Childhood Education Programs (2020)
- 50-State Comparison: English Learner Policies (2020)
- Public Education Finance Systems in the United States and Funding Policies for Populations with Special Education Needs (2011)
- Significant Features of the Property Tax (Database)
- The Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma (2007)
- Payments in Lieu of Taxes - Balancing Municipal and Nonprofit Interests (2010)
- Rethinking Property Tax Incentives for Business (2012)
- Opposing Views: The Divide in Public Education Funding - Property Tax Revenue (2013)
- Property Tax Circuit Breakers - Fair and Cost-Effective Relief for Taxpayers (2009)
- Property Tax Limitation Regimes: A Primer (2018)
- State Limits on Property Taxes Hamstring Local Services and Should be Relaxed or Repealed (2018)
- Fast Facts - Title I (2019)
- Study of the Title I Part A Grant Program Mathematical Formulas (2019)
- Allocation of Funds Under the Title I-A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (2018)
- Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, US Census Bureau
- Title I - US Department of Education
- K-12 Fiscal Relief in the Aftermath of Covid-19 (2020)
- The K-12 Financial Cliff: What States Could Face if Students Switch Schooling Sectors (2020)
- The Trillion Dollar Problem: Pandemic Puts State Pension Plans at Even Greater Risk (2020)
- K-3 Literacy Interventions - ECS Information Request Response (2020)
State-level Policy Analyses & Resources
- New Hampshire Education Commission-Relevant RSAs and other data
- Education Finance in New Hampshire - Headed to a Rural Crisis? (2017)
- The Whole Picture of Public Education in New Hampshire (2020)
- Putting the Bite on Education (1976)
- NH DoE Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act 2020-23 State Plan
- The Whole Picture of Public Education in New Hampshire
- Charter Schools: Education Policy Brief, Reaching Higher New Hampshire
- Reaching Higher NH Interactive Data Visualizations
- Reaching Higher NH Community and District Profiles
- Title I Program Assurances - NH Department of Education (2019)
- The Economic Returns from Investing in Early Childhood Education in the Granite State (2017)
- Mosaic Property Tax Equalization Reference Guide
- New Hampshire Strategic Plan for Early Childhood (2020)
- Understanding the New Hampshire Birth through Five System - A Needs Assessment (2020)
- An Odd Love Affair with Property Taxes in New Hampshire (2020)
- Report from the Commission to Study Issues Relating to Students Receiving Special Education Services While Attending a Chartered Public School (2016)
- Study Group for Post-Secondary Education Report (3-19-21)
- Using the Evidence-Based Method to Identify Adequate Spending Levels for Vermont Schools (2016)
- Study of Pupil Weights in Vermont's Education Funding Formula (2019)
- Vermont's Statutes Annotated, Title 16, Chapter 133: State Funding of Public Education
- An Evaluation of Vermont's Education System (2012)
- Introduction to Vermont's Education Finance System (2018)
- Introduction to Vermont's Education Finance System (2019)
- Vermont Education Funding System Video (2017)
- Vermont State Summary of Education Funding Policy
- Vermont Excess Spending Thresholds Overview
- Vermont Excess Spending Thresholds by Year
- Vermont Education Fund and Education Finance (2019)
- Adequacy and State Funding Formulas: What Can California Learn from the Research and National Context? (2018)
- Delayed Benefits: Effects of California School District Bond Elections on Achievement by Socioecononomic Status (2019)
- California's Weighted Student Funding Formula: Does it Help Money Matter More? (2017)
