American Institutes for Research, non-partisan analysts requisitioned by New Hampshire’s Commission to Study School Funding, looked at the past ten years of school funding and performance data last year and concluded that, “New Hampshire’s existing school funding system is inequitable from both student and taxpayer perspectives.” Moreover, their report stated that cities and towns “with higher poverty rates and lower property wealth are doubly penalized” as school districts with the highest number of economically disadvantaged students spend less than districts with the fewest needy students, thus communities with the least wealth “impose the highest local education tax rates to be able to fund their children’s education.” Berlin’s school district is at the top of that list of double inequities. It exacts the highest property tax for schools while having one of the lowest average performance rankings to show for it.
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