Last Thursday's Sun carried a New Hampshire Bulletin article by Ethan DeWitt on education funding, inspired by the latest state-by-state comparisons of school data issued by the National Education Association. InDepthNH, another online outlet, carried a similar interpretation of that raw data by the reliably progressive Garry Rayno. The gist of both pieces, although predictably more pronounced in Rayno's, was that New Hampshire is just a cheapskate state.
Both articles emphasize the low level of state contributions to education, which in New Hampshire averages only 28.8 percent of each district's costs. That's lower than all the other 49 states. Rayno used that statistic as an opportunity to quote Megan Tuttle, president of New Hampshire's NEA chapter, who berates the state for such parsimony; he also allowed her a sneering aside at one of his pet peeves — vouchers, which nourish competition for the public schools where her union members work.
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