Richard Beaton

The real problem is the legislature's refusal to provide sufficient funds to public schools so that every student has an equal opportunity to get the education needed to be productive citizens. Open enrollment does nothing to resolve this problem, but it creates numerous other problems: destabilizing public schools by making planning and budgeting very difficult to predict; by passing the State's judicially-mandated contribution along to local taxpayers even though the school districts won't have the enrollment information for budgeting and hiring decisions; it perpetuates a public education system in New Hampshire that is unfair to students, parents, and taxpayers. This bill should not pass.