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Investigation · Sullivan County
New data show where EFA money is being spent, but not whether it creates a new educational opportunity or replaces an expense a family was already paying.
New Hampshire funds most local government and public education through the property tax, which makes the tax base of a town, not only its spending, a determinant of what a household pays.
6 analysesHow New Hampshire pays for public education: the state adequacy grant, the statewide education property tax, and the local share that covers the rest.
6 analysesThe state programme that places public education funds in family-controlled accounts for approved educational expenses.
3 analysesSupply, cost and land-use rules, and the policy proposals that address them.
1 analysisClaremont, Newport, Charlestown, Plainfield, Unity and surrounding communities in western New Hampshire.
4 analysesTwo things can happen when the state subsidises something: it causes a choice that would not otherwise have happened, or it pays for one that was happening anyway. New Hampshire does not publish the data to tell them apart.
HB 1300 limits growth in the local school tax levy and caps SAU central-office spending. Neither provision identifies a cost the district stops owing.
A cost the state stops carrying does not stop existing. What the record supports is a fiscal-capacity argument, not a one-to-one claim that every dollar of forgone state revenue became a dollar of property tax.
Two towns can need the same money per student and set very different tax rates, because the property standing behind each student is different.
A comparison of two decisions by the representative for Sullivan County District 7: a bill that would have moved $28 million of pension cost off local property taxes, and an expansion of state education spending to $51.6 million.
A four-town comparison of property value per student, operating cost per pupil and the resulting education tax rate.
Those five entities are connected because analyses name them together — not because anyone drew this diagram. Following any one of them reaches the same evidence:
