No prize yet for Blue Ribbon Commission. School funding formula retool is just getting started.

By: Alexander Castro

Outlets: Rhode Island Current

Published: July 6, 2026

Words: 2,263

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 3 days ago

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Lawmakers sat behind rows of tables, like students at their desks, in the Rhode Island Senate Lounge one January night to hear a guest speaker detail a new plan to make public education throughout the state more fair and equitable.

“The future economic prosperity of our state is directly dependent on our ability to get this right,” Rhode Island Foundation President and CEO David Cicilline told senators as they dined on a hot buffet dinner …

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