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Unfunded Kindergarten Mandate

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Gov. Lynch & Democrats violating NH Constitution (article 28-a) by mandating all school districts offer Kindergarten; disregarding local control and refusing to have state pay for it.

Right to Know Law (RSA 91-A):

Link to NH Attorney General's Memo

Education Funding:

A Claremont Reader

A Compilation of Essays Demonstrating the Constitutional and Policy Deficiencies of the Claremont Series of Public School Funding Decisions (1993 - 2006)

(linked with permission of the compilers: Dan McGuire and NH State Representative Gregory M. Sorg, Grafton District 3)

The People's House
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A primer on the NH Supreme Court's Claremont decisions.
HCR14 as introduced A RESOLUTION declaring the NH supreme court's Claremont decisions to be an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers mandate under part I, article 37 of the NH constitution.

NH State Constitution:

The People's Liberty

A Commentary on the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire

(used with permission of the author NH State Representative Dan Itse)

NH Supreme Court Accountability NH Judges - servants of the people or Lords over them?
NH Supreme Court:
not accountable to the people
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The supreme court has now rejected the right of the legislature to audit the administrative workings of the court system.
Judiciary’s canceling of jury trials is hardly due to budget ‘cuts’ The JUDICIAL branch blames the Legislature for its decision to cancel jury trials in five out of the next 15 months.  But not only were there no "cuts" in the judiciary’s budget, the Legislature actually increased the budget for jury trials by more than 25 percent.