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If you want to get an idea of just how rusted-out the Warwick public schools are, simply review the district's current Strategic Plan. 17 pages of hip acronyms (MTSS, RTI, BPIS), trendy references to "..closing the achievement gap" (i.e. make dumb kids smarter while encouraging smart kids to go to Hendricken or LaSalle), and the requisite complaints about a "...lack of funding" as if $18,000 per student just isn't enough. The most glaring issue confronting the schools, plummeting enrollment, earns three sentences in the 17 page document. And what Action Steps is the district taking in the face of plummeting enrollment? In the proud tradition of government-run anything, they're going to continue to have a committee. Swell. The fact that the phrase "Academic Excellence" appears nowhere in the document is also telling. Bottom line: If ever there was a document that captured the beaurocratic naval-gazing that has become government-run education, it is the document that guides the sad, rudderless state of the Warwick public schools.