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Captain, Public education is not a Business but Testing and College are. Take a look at the profits and tell me this is the way you want to run you local school department. The cost are out of control. Look at student debt, I guess they can pay that right back with the money they will earn working here in RI. Did you ever read the report from SMMA? You could fire all the teachers and it would take more than ten years to fix the many problems. No we did not get the same results that we got for free, the committee just did what they wanted to do in the first place. It seems most of the best colleges are private and very costly. It is easy to get better test scores in the private schools just as in private colleges. Just think you get to pick the All Star team, In general one that has students that come from homes with someone in their corner. Most often with a higher education and better resources. This is just the reality. The best schools make the best community and that means funding at the highest level. Not kicking the can for 30 plus years. It takes an entire community to educate students, and that takes a buy-in from every one including households without children. If the schools fail then the community fails. The money is well spent and the end result are rising property values and stable taxes. The residents should get out to the schools and take a look for yourself and read the entire SMMA report. Then take the time to learn about the testing companies. Our schools are in shambles. Imagine if your local business did not get properly maintained for 50 years. What message are we sending to our students?