The Supreme Court dismissed a request from the Rand education funding suit plaintiffs to reconsider its order by Senior Associate Justice Patrick Donovan not to recuse himself from hearing the case, which is on appeal before the court.
With both parties having hotly contested races for US Senate and US Representative seats, more than 40,000 Democrats turned out to cast ballots Tuesday than Republicans did.
Two New Hampshire parents, one a school board member and the other a former school budget committee member, have sued to block the school budget cap question from appearing on the general election ballot in November.
The attorneys for the Rand education funding case are asking again for the recusal of Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald and associate justice Daniel Will from deciding the state’s appeal at the Supreme Court.
The two original Claremont education funding decisions should be overturned in whole or in part, the state argues in its 125-page brief in its appeal of the superior court’s Rand decision.
According to the 2026 Feeding America report, Coos County has the highest overall food insecurity in the state at 15.4 percent with children at 22 percent, followed by Sullivan County with an overall rate of 12.3 percent and children at 18.3 percent.
The state’s newly implemented bell-to-bell cell phone ban has been effective in reducing distractions in the classroom and improving student focus according to administrators and teachers in a recent Department of Education survey.
U.S. News and World Reports annual ranking of states finds New Hampshire in sixth place, but is ranked number one for the safest state and for economic opportunity, although sixth for overall opportunities for its residents and businesses.
The state education funding system has been challenged for years going back decades, with one of the most recent suits decided by the state Supreme Court and the other still before the court.
