David Cicilline: “I think this was a very productive hearing and raised very important issues about this urgent challenge we face.”

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

We have to recognize that would include occupying part of Russia, toppling their government, and replacing them with a different government.

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 —…

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.