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Senator Walaska, will the general assembly be funding all day kindergarten or will it be another unfunded mandate handed down to the schools? You know as well as I do that it will be an unfunded mandate that will add millions more debt to our already struggling school systems in RI. You were one of the people who voted to allow the cities and towns to reduce the funding to schools by 5% when the federal stimulus money came from the federal government. That money was earmarked to go to the schools and you and the cowards at the state house took it. This means you voted to allow the cities to directly cut funding from the schools and this lowered funding level became the new level funding for the Warwick Schools. Your vote directly resulted in a $6.2 Million cut to Warwick Schools requiring drastic cuts to include closing schools. It has been 4 years and now $25+ Million has been taken from the schools and you want the schools to wait before making a decision? You want to stand up and say more studies must be done... Oh, I forgot, you are in the RI Senate and when a person doesn't have the guts to make a decision it goes to committee for further study. The time for action for you Senator was in 2009 and 2010 when you and your comrades at the statehouse should NOT have voted to allow for cuts to education. Here are the results of your vote. You should have studied the problem then and we might not be having this problem now.

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