David Cicilline: “I think the one thing that's particularly important is that we need to have confidence that as we are navigating this…”

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.

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 —…

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 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.