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Peer reviewedGoodman, Richard H. – Journal of Education Finance, 1982
Describes a lawsuit filed in January 1982 by New Hampshire students, parents, and school districts charging that the state's elementary and secondary education system's heavy reliance on local property taxes violates the state constitution by creating substantial inequities in the funds available per pupil in each district. (Author/RW)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student
Download full textCooper, Bruce S.; And Others – 1980
A new argument is made for school finance equalization, based not on "equal protection" or "equal educational opportunity," but on constitutional requirements for tax equity in New Hampshire. Since inequalities in school finance are a taxation problem, they call for tax reform. The analyses rest on four points: (1) that…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
