David Cicilline: “I think what we have to be looking at is the job crisis in this country and how we invest in growing the economy.”

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.

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.

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 —…

Since the Goldman Act was enacted there has been a decline in the number of American children abducted overseas and that is a good news story.