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Today the New Hampshire Superior Court issued a whopping 45-page order in the state's education tax credit program case.  Judge John M. Lewis ruled that the program is constitutional as long as the scholarships are not used to cover educational expenses of "schools or institutions of any religious sect or denomination."  In other words, now the ...

Earlier this month PLF filed an amicus brief in an important New Hampshire school choice case.  The scholarship tax credit program at issue in that lawsuit has recently been the focus of a legislative repeal effort.  Last week we learned that the New Hampshire Senate Education Committee voted 3-2 in favor of an "Inexpedient to Legislate" recommenda ...

Last week PLF filed an amicus brief in an important New Hampshire school choice case.  But the valuable scholarship program currently under attack in court has also faced threats from a legislative repeal bill.  Today there is positive news on the latter front: the New Hampshire Senate Education Committee voted 3-2 in favor of an "Inexpedient to Le ...

We have previously reported on New Hampshire's Tax Credit Program -- New Hampshire's recently adopted school choice bill that gives less affluent families the opportunity to send their children to schools of their choice.  The New Hampshire Program is very similar to the Arizona plan that the United States Supreme Court held constitutional in Arizo ...

Readers may recall that New Hampshire passed an important school choice tax credit scholarship program last year.  The law allows businesses to contribute money to scholarship programs for low-income students to attend the school of their choice (or even home school). Unfortunately, students in the state didn't have much time to celebrate before a ...

Last year, New Hampshire passed an exciting new school choice law.  The measure was so widely lauded that legislators overrode the governor's veto.  It is a tax credit plan that gives New Hampshire businesses a tax deduction if they donate to a school tuition organization.  Thus, instead of that business's tax money going into the state's general f ...

I hope so! II. The purpose of this act is to: a) Allow maximum freedom to parents and nonpublic schools to respond to and, without governmental control, provide for the educational needs of children, and this act shall be liberally construed to achieve that purpose. Brilliant. ...