David Cicilline: “I urge Congress to find that courage, to show leadership on this life-and-death issue, and to act, now.”

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.

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.

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

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 —…