David Cicilline: “We always tout cities as the great innovators, the incubators of great ideas, the place in government closest to the…”

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.

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 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.

What we’ve said to the General Assembly is you’re going to have to have a transition plan that takes that into account.