David Cicilline: “I think if we are all honest, Congress has benefited from our failure to engage in this work because we have left the…”

The future economic prosperity of our state is directly dependent on our ability to get this right.

You can’t have a statewide school funding system that is fair to everyone — that’s equitable, that covers all costs of education, so that every student, no matter where they live, is treated the same, and every taxpayer treated the same —…

What we’ve said to the General Assembly is you’re going to have to have a transition plan that takes that into account.

The difference is you’ll be increasing education funding and distributing it through a formula that’s fair and equitable, and ensure that every student in Rhode Island has access to what they need to be successful.