David Cicilline: “I think the uncertainty of us not having a budget adds to the difficulties that we are facing in dealing with the very…”

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 —…

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

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 Goldman Act empowered the State Department to seek the return of American children, yet, the department, in my opinion, has not used the full of range of tools as Congress has intended.