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These Pilgrim students also have great parents who endured two years of work-to-rule, pickets, and sick-outs by those same teachers who the make-believe mayor is calling "great" in yet another attempt to pander to the WTU.

To his uninformed question of "where all that extra money is going," the city has been paying to keep schools open [and continue funding salaries and benefits for teachers] in spite of Warwick's declining student population -- something the new contract finally addresses, over the protests of the WTU, by giving the school committee the ability to exceed the prior arbitrary limit of 20 layoffs per year.

And before the make-believe mayor repeats his false claim about the student population, the Rhode Island Department of Education reported an October enrollment of 11,139 in 2007-08 compared to 8,953 in 2017-18, a difference of 2,186. This verifiable information is found at the following link: http://www.eride.ri.gov/reports/reports.asp

During that time, the make-believe mayor's chosen constituency, the WTU, fought every effort to consolidate schools until multiple studies proved that it was necessary.