To Understand Your Property Tax Bill, Follow the Money to Concord
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.
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The Education Funding System
New Hampshire defines a per-pupil cost of an adequate education in statute, sends that amount to municipalities, and leaves districts to raise the remainder locally. The gap between the two is the mechanism behind most of the state's school-funding arguments.
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When the State Stops Paying, Somebody Else Starts
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.
Your House Got Richer. Did You?
Two towns can need the same money per student and set very different tax rates, because the property standing behind each student is different.
Why Spending Alone Doesn't Explain School Taxes
A four-town comparison of property value per student, operating cost per pupil and the resulting education tax rate.
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