New Hampshire

		REPORT CARD
		NAEP exams		% Scoring proficient
		1996 8th grade math		?
		1996 4th grade math		?
		1996 8th grade science		?
		1994 4th grade reading		36%
		QUALITY COUNTS 1999 grades
		Standards and assessments		B
		Efforts to raise teacher quality		C+
		School climate		?
		Resources (funding):
			Adequacy	B
			Equity	D
			Allocation	B-

N ew Hampshire is facing a court-imposed deadline of April 1 to fix its school finance system. And the public is losing patience. Gov. Jeanne Shaheen's efforts to develop a stringent accountability system for the state's schools were largely gutted last year by the legislature. But the state did approve new reporting requirements for schools. By December 2000, the state will produce an annual report card on the quality of education in individual schools and districts.

* NOTE: The equity grade is based on 1994-95 data, the most recent available.

? indicates the state did not participate in national assessment, survey, or data collection.

© 1999 Editorial Projects in Education

Vol. 18, number 17, page 159