David Cicilline: “If we are going to protect our own economic and national security interests that are so vital to the well-being and…”

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

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 —…

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.