Contoocook Valley School District v. New Hampshire
The New Hampshire Supreme Court affirmed the state’s existing education funding law is constitutionally inadequate and $7,356.01 per pupil as a minimum constitutional guidepost for the legislature, but reversed the trial court’s injunction directing the state immediately to pay that amount because the court failed to give adequate weight to separation of powers concerns.
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