David Cicilline: “This is a problem that can only be solved by increased federal investment.”

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 —…

We must remember that child abduction is child abuse and it has devastating emotional, psychological, and even physical consequences for both abducted children and their families left behind.