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MACDONALD: Tie UNH ‘Funding’ To Free Speech

The latest University of New Hampshire’s Free-Speech ranking from FIRE is unimpressive. Even lousy. But my expectations were always low. It was never a bastion of First Amendment Rights, and it has – in truth – had a few speech scandals that went nationwide with our help. I’ve also taken FIRE to task in the past for … Read more

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MACDONALD: Tom Murray Challenges NH Education Tax Structure

Citing 1850 Constitutional Record Unavailable to the Claremont Courts. Windham taxpayer and former Windham School Board member and occasional ‘Grok contributor ‘ Tom Murray has filed a constitutional challenge to New Hampshire’s education property-tax structure. He argues that previously unconsidered constitutional history undermines the foundation of the New Hampshire Supreme Court’s landmark Claremont school-funding decisions … Read more

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UNDERWOOD: Goals, Not Gestures

Marco Rubio testified before Congress recently, where he dropped this little gem in a reply to Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York: We have to have a State Department that can deliver on a foreign policy that is rooted in the national interest of the United States. To defend the national interest of the United … Read more

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DYER: These Cost Shocks Are Pushing Nashua to The Breaking Point

After receiving the full ESSER I, II, and III expenditure files, I’ve completed a detailed and source-cited analysis of Nashua’s COVID-era funding, current fiscal management, and the broader demographic trends that have been repeatedly ignored. What emerges is a pattern of short-term financial decisions, politicized narratives, and resistance to data-driven planning that has left taxpayers … Read more

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UNDERWOOD: Schools- The Most Bang for The Least Bucks

When you talk to legislators about political reform, whether it’s in the schools or anywhere else, they are often interested in making small changes — largely because those seem to be the only kind anyone thinks can be made.  (The technical psychological term for this is learned helplessness.) I’ve been thinking for a while now … Read more

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Special Ed Shortfall or Overspending?

Good Morning, Commissioner Edelblut, Senators Abbas and Lang, I am writing to you about the Special Education shortfalls in our state. As an older special needs mom with strong connections to the NH disability community and after reading the following article and getting a message from my Senator, Daryl Abbas, I have some major concerns. … Read more

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Fed up with Schools Disrespecting Students and Parents

I must admit that I am fed up and tired of reading about how these schools continue to disrespect students and parents. Also, to the same extent, how women and girls are bullied and abused in competitive athletics. Where are the women who burned their bras in the sixties?   Did you not teach your … Read more

Right to Know

Nashua Alderman Suggest Cutting Budget for Right to Know Requests

Good evening,

My Name is Albert Todd and I live at <redacted> in Nashua. I am writing this message in response to the Nashua Alderman Board that I joined and watched on 4/27/2021.  During this board meeting, many interesting topics were discussed but one struck me as odd and alarming. That is when the Board started discussing a reduction in funding for Right to Know Requests.

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How NOT to Think About School Funding (Part 2)

Previously, I discussed the idea, popular in some quarters, that if a parent withdraws his child from a public school in order to send him to a private school, the parent ought to reimburse the district for lost adequacy funds. Today I’d like to discuss a complementary idea, also popular in some quarters, that if … Read more

Granite Crock: ‘Don’t confuse us with the facts!’

Long ago, a Congressman from my home state gained notoriety when he said, while defending Richard Nixon, ‘Don’t confuse me with the facts.’  I was reminded of this upon reading an article that Steve forwarded to me from the Granite Crock site, which was written to ‘debunk’ something I’d written.

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School funding: Viewing problems as opportunities

Remember that moment when Mulan figures out how to climb the pole?  To do it, she has to change the way she views the two weights.  What seems at first to be a problem (‘How do I carry these weights with me as I climb?’) turns out to be an opportunity (‘I can use these … Read more

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The Magic of Per-Student Cost

Are your state representatives smarter than fifth-graders? Here’s a word problem that even a fifth-grader should be able to solve: A boat ferries passengers across a lake.  Ten people want to ride it together.  The captain says:  It costs me $100 to run the boat, so you’ll have to pay an average of $10 each. … Read more

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School funding: What problem are we trying to solve?

There is an old Chinese saying that if you chase two rabbits, both will escape. Before making decisions about what to spend, and how to get the money, and from whom, we have to decide what we’re trying to do:  Educate children?  Provide daycare and other social services to parents?  Create job security for teachers?  … Read more

Dark Money

Next time NH Democrats start yammering about “Dark Money” in campaigns, remember this:

Note the last question below: LEFT’S NON-PROFIT FUNDING LEAD KEEPS GROWING: Michael Watson and Shane Devine of the Capital Research Center (CRC) update through the 2018 campaign the center’s ongoing study comparing charitable funding resources for the Left and Right and finds the former’s advantage continues to expand. “In the 2017–2018 cycle, the 301 groups supported by … Read more

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