Granite State Taxpayers, a statewide organization supporting legislation that reduces the financial impact of government on the taxpayer, urges the New Hampshire Legislature to support SB 401.
State administered “adequate education grants” are annually distributed to communities based on actual student attendance. Those attendance or student population numbers are currently based on three year old data. SB 401 reduces the time-lag in providing attendance numbers to one year.
In a digital age, where communications and data availability are near instantaneous, there is no excuse for a three year lag between recording daily attendance numbers and using them. Providing the data in a more realistic one year period, as SB 401 requires, will ensure that adequacy grants are quickly directed to districts with growing student populations-thus provide more immediate relief for local taxpayers.
Dan McGuire
Dan McGuire is a member of the Granite State Taxpayers Board of Directors and is a Republican member of the NH House of Representatives from Epsom, NH.
Granite State Taxpayers is New Hampshire’s oldest statewide taxpayer organization. Founded in 1990 by former Governor Mel Thomson and former State Senator George Lovejoy, our mission is to inform, educate and motivate New Hampshire taxpayers and to lobby the legislature on their behalf.