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Mr. Testa is right. Poor schools lead to a towns death. Responsible parents research how good a city educates its children. Then they choose a community that values education.

1.Poor schools lead to a drop in a communities attractiveness.

2. This causes a drop in housing values.

3. People move in to the community because of the lower values. Some of the new residents either don't have the time, don't care, don't have the ability to help their children with school.

4. Schools get worse as the changing demographic leads to less value of education.

5.People leave the city. Shrinking the tax base and leaving the remaining residents with ever higher tax bills.

6.People and Business' leave or refuse to come because the city has a high tax rate and lousy school system.

7. Rinse and repeat

In business there are no fixed cost. Anybody that believes that needs a new job. A well run company with forward thinking agile management will get ahead of the crisis cut what needs to be cut and prepare to come out ahead of its competition.

Warwick's mayor and city council are hamstrung because they refuse to take on the unions and retiree's. Nothing is going to get better until public unions and defined benefit plans go away.

From: Schools argue for fully funded $161M budget

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