Because our children deserve better!
- More than half of New Hampshire’s students are falling below grade-level standards in reading, writing, and math.
- Property taxes keep skyrocketing while classroom results decline.
- Families and taxpayers are being asked to pay more than ever for a system that is failing.
Before you pay your next property tax bill, keep reading to see how we’re fighting back.
Our Goal
We do NOT seek to defund schools. We wish to fix them by empowering New Hampshire residents a voice and ensuring our education system delivers real results for our kids.
- Return authority to parents, towns and communities.
- Stop unconstitutional education taxation.
- Rebuild schools with accountability, academics, and excellence.
How We Reach Our Goals
By empowering New Hampshire residents to file RSA 76:16 abatements that challenge rising property taxes and push for real change.
Ways You Can Help
File an Abatement
We provide simple step-by-step instructions, so you know exactly what to do. Please remember to deliver your abatement application to your town by March 1.
HOW TO GET STARTED
Spread the Word
Share this information with your friends, family, and neighbors in New Hampshire. When more people understand their rights and learn how to take action, our movement grows stronger.
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Donate to the Cause
Your donation helps keep this citizen-led movement going. Contributions support outreach, education, and the resources needed to help more New Hampshire taxpayers understand their rights.
I WANT TO HELPHow to Fill Out and File the Abatement
Download both forms below and watch the video for detailed guidance on how to complete the process.
Download Abatement Form Download Attachment A- Print your tax bill.
- Locate the Local Education and State Education (SWEPT) line items.
- Write down both amounts. You will challenge both.
- Download and complete the RSA 76:16 Abatement Form (DRA form) and Attachment A – Constitutional Grounds for Abatement for your town.
- Fill in your: Name, Address, Map/Lot, Amounts of SWEPT and local education taxes.
- Sign and date these forms.
- Deliver these completed forms to your town offices by March 1 by hand, mail, or email (if digital submissions are accepted).
Your town must reply to your submission by July 1. If denied, you are legally entitled to appeal to the NH Board of Tax & Land Appeals or Superior Court. If needed, you can also appeal to the NH Supreme Court.
Why Do We Care?
For 30 years, New Hampshire has operated under an education funding system created not by the people but by the courts. Save Our Schools NH is a citizen-led movement working to restore local control, protect our state constitution, and strengthen New Hampshire schools.
The Claremont ruling (1993-1997) created a state obligation and taxing structure that does not appear anywhere in our constitution. As a result, our communities have faced:
- Loss of local control.
- Declining student performance.
- A growing and costly bureaucracy.
- DEI/CRT-driven mission creep.
- Administrative expansion without clear academic benefit.
- Teachers pushed into non-teaching roles.
- A statewide tax system imposed without true constitutional consent.
We exist to protect New Hampshire’s schools and restore a constitutional, community-driven system of education that is free of judicial overreach and rooted in the consent of the people.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this legal?
What makes the NH education tax unconstitutional?
The Claremont decision created this tax through judicial usurpation, not through the lawful amendment process.
What is judicial usurpation?
In Ford v. Manchester Housing Authority (1964), the NH Supreme Court ruled that any act beyond constitutional delegation is void ab initio, or void from the beginning.