Conval Decision Archives

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MacDonald: NH Legislature Drops HB2 Bunker Buster on Claremont and ConVal Decisions

June 29, 2025June 29, 2025 Steve MacDonald

My full interview with Melissa Blasek will air Monday at 8 pm. In it, she dissects a few of the good, bad, and ugly points in HB2, the trailer bill that functions as a legislative scow, dragging every bit of leftover garbage from the session across the finish line. Don’t take that the wrong way, … Read more

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How School Funding Works (Part 1)

August 24, 2024 Ian Underwood

One of the things that allows so much nonsense to be bandied about when discussing school funding is that almost no one — including legislators, judges, and DoE officials — seems to understand how SWEPT (Statewide education property taxes) and adequacy grants are related. In what follows, I’ll use nice round numbers that approximate but … Read more

Unfit For Liberty (Part 3, Courts)

December 14, 2023 Ian Underwood

For the last several months, many of us have been waiting on pins and needles for a judge to tell us what the state constitution says about education, which is remarkable because it’s not like that constitution is written using particularly difficult language.

Uniform Nonsense

December 13, 2023 Ian Underwood

I just finished listening to a webinar by the School Funding Fairness Project. Their whole approach to ‘funding’ (which focuses on fairness in spending while totally ignoring fairness in education) is based on two misconceptions.