David Cicilline: “What has set us apart from other nations for more than 200 years is our dedication to fundamental freedoms, equality…”

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 problem is we haven't committed to a mission. I have asked Secretary Blinken to define what he thinks the mission is.

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

Secretly, I was always hoping I would be surprised it would move really quickly, but as a practical matter, I knew that was not the case.