David Cicilline: “I thank you, Chairman Deutch and Ranking Member Wilson, for calling this hearing to help us understand how we might have…”

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 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 —…

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