CONCORD, N.H- The New Hampshire Supreme Court has upheld a Superior Court decision which says the state must increase funding to public schools.

On Tuesday the high court issued a 3-2 ruling in which it agreed with a lower court that the state’s current level of aid is constitutionally insufficient. However, the justices ended up reversing part of the lower court’s decision which called for the state to immediately increase funding to public schools by more than $500 million a year, instead leaving that to Gov. Kelly Ayotte and the lawmakers to find a solution.

Back in December the Supreme Court first heard arguments in the case brought against the State of New Hampshire by the Contoocook Valley School District. Prior to that Rockingham County Superior Court Judge David Ruoff ruled in 2023 that the state needed to immediately increase funding for public schools and calculated that the base amount should be above $7,300 per student.