LEBANON Taxpayers in Lebanon are funding two efforts to shape how New Hampshire pays for its public schools, but it’s not clear whether those campaigns share the same goals.The Lebanon School Board voted, 6-2, last week to join a lawsuit seeking to.
ConVal recently reached a settlement in a lawsuit with local company Monadnock Tent & Event, and announced its terms in a press release on Tuesday.ConVal sued Monadnock Tent and Event in early October 2020 to recoup financial losses after some of the.
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Published: 5/25/2021 1:57:58 PM
ConVal recently reached a settlement in a lawsuit with local company Monadnock Tent & Event, and announced its terms in a press release on Tuesday.
ConVal sued Monadnock Tent and Event in early October 2020 to recoup financial losses after some of the tents the company was contracted to set up couldn’t meet state safety standards. ConVal initially sued the tent company for $220,236.99 in total damages, to cover money spent on unpermitted tents, labor costs, engineering costs, and electrical work.
Under the settlement terms, Monadnock Tent & Event agreed to pay the District $75,000, the District agreed to release all of the tent company’s property, and both parties will drop their suit and countersuit against one another.
Lebanon, Mascoma join lawsuit against state over education funding
Modified: 5/20/2021 11:02:25 PM
LEBANON Two more Upper Valley school districts have decided to join a lawsuit challenging New Hampshire’s education funding system.
The Lebanon School Board voted, 6-2, on Monday night to add its name to a list of more than 11 districts arguing in court that the state fails to provide adequate funding for all students.
Meanwhile, the Mascoma Valley Regional School Board voted unanimously to also join the suit as co-plaintiffs. That district educates students from Enfield, Canaan, Grafton, Dorchester and Orange.
“As a regional school district, Mascoma Valley experiences the injustice of New Hampshire’s educational funding mechanism which pits community against community instead of uniting us in the common goal of education,” Tim Josephson, vice chairman of the Mascoma Regional School Board, said in a statement last week.
Three Upper Valley districts join fight
Modified: 5/10/2021 9:56:32 PM
CLAREMONT Three Upper Valley school districts plan to join a lawsuit challenging New Hampshire’s education funding system as part of a coalition that now stretches from Sullivan County to the Seacoast.
Claremont, Newport and Grantham will join seven other school districts that intend to argue state funding fails to meet students’ basic educational needs, according to Manchester attorney Michael Tierney, who represents the plaintiffs.
Tierney said Monday that other districts also are debating joining the suit, which was first filed in 2019, and could be named in future filings.
Those include the Mascoma Valley Regional School District, which is scheduled to discuss the matter next month, according to School Board Vice Chairman Tim Josephson.