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I believe it was the late Sen. Everett Dirksen who coined the Washington phrase, "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you are talking about real money." Rhode Island seems to have that spending model down pat.

As the citizens ponder this $323M budget, $175M for schools, I was struck by something John Stark wrote a couple of weeks ago...The cost of an education, in Warwick, $19K per student, and the overall ROI...and I got to thinking, how much for education in other schools?

I took a quick look at tuition and fees for 2019-20 at Hendricken, LaSalle and Mt. St. Charles expecting Ivy League like numbers...How about 15175, LaSalle, 15675, 9-11 and 16050, 12 and The Mount, 14400...Gives one pause, ya think...

Of course if you are awash in cash, and you can afford Moses Brown @ 37865 or Rocky Hill @ 37600...Why worry? Did you ever wonder where many Warwick teachers send their kids to school? Jus' sayin'...OH, Harvard Business School, 101..."When is a deal not a deal?" When you can't afford it...Not to worry...A year from now, the same hand wringing and whining will return as nothing will change systemically, until it all crashes and burns...There has to be will and leadership...RI has very little of each.