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It's no wonder the Mayor & City Council don't trust the School Committee when it comes to the School budget & school issues. We discover an incident at Gorton from an outside indictment; the Superintendent "choice' appears to be from a hidden(pre-decided?) process(School Committee members aren't voicing their opinions as a unified body; HOW can the City Council & Mayor trust/believe them?); & the school consolidation process appears to be a postponed, last minute process. On top of that, the School Committee makes a $ 7 million higher request for the next year's school budget(maintenance requests/Chromebooks/technology requests). The increase would increase the annual school budget which couldn't be reduced in the future. Study Cranston's School Budget; similar sized community & student population operating on a smaller budget. If Warwick wants to provide a better education for its students, it needs to close some schools to allow for this. A three school option would provide no transportation savings, would delay secondary & elementary school closings(the $ 142 million bond issue/process will further delay the overall consolidation) , &, more than likely, result in a higher cost & longer process. Outsiders would see the delayed, mismanaged operation & the overall student population wouldn't increase because families wouldn't likely want to move to Warwick; who could blame them?

Before you ask for additional funding, how about showing Warwick taxpayers you can efficiently manage what you already have?