LONDONDERRY SCHOOL DISTRICT v. STATE

No. 2006-258.

907 A.2d 988 (2006)

LONDONDERRY SCHOOL DISTRICT SAU # 12 and another. v. STATE of New Hampshire.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Opinion Issued: September 8, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orr & Reno, P.A., of Concord (William L. Chapman & a. on the brief, and Mr. Chapman orally), for the plaintiffs.

Kelly A. Ayotte, attorney general (Anne M. Edwards, associate attorney general, and N. William Delker, senior assistant attorney general, on the brief, and Ms. Edwards orally), for the State.

Patrick E. Donovan and Kenneth D. Murphy, of Concord (Mr. Donovan and Mr. Murphy on the brief, and Mr. Murphy orally), for the Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and the President of the New Hampshire Senate, as amici curiae.

Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.A., of Manchester (Andru H. Volinsky on the brief), and John E. Tobin, Jr., of Concord, and Scott Johnson, of Concord, on the brief, for the Claremont Petitioners, as amici curiae.

Theodore E. Comstock, of Concord, executive director and general counsel, and Barrett M. Christina, of Concord, staff attorney, on the brief, for New Hampshire School Boards Association, as amicus curiae.

James F. Allmendinger, of Concord, staff attorney, on the brief, for NEA-New Hampshire, as amicus curiae.

Eugene M. Van Loan III, of Manchester, by brief, pro se, as amicus curiae.

Soltani/Mosca P.L.L.C., of Epsom (Edward C. Mosca on the brief), for Granite State Taxpayers, as amicus curiae.


HICKS, J.

Once again, we are called upon to address the basic educational needs of the children of New Hampshire and the State's obligation to ensure and to fund each educable child's opportunity to obtain a constitutionally adequate education as required by Part II, Article 83 of the New Hampshire Constitution.

The State appeals a decision of the Superior Court (Groff, J.) finding that the State has failed to fulfill its duty to define a constitutionally...

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