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To completely answer your question above, the State effectively allowed the cities to cut the school budgets BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THE GUTS TO CUT THE BUDGET THEMSELVES EITHER, by allowing the city to lower the memorandum of effort (MOE), 5% which is $6.2 Million for Warwick. So, the city KEPT the $6.2 million for themselves, increasing their budget immediately by $6.2 Million, then raised taxes each year so now they are $30 million more annually but we must remember they also have the initial $6.2 million stolen from the school budget effectively making the city budget $36.2 million more annually. In total, the schools have lost out on approximately $25 Million over the last 5 years because the gutless wonders at the state house allowed the cities to cut funding and the mayor and city council, always ready to take advantage of a situation felt they needed to put the screws to the schools.

By the way, if you feel that you would like to not blame the tax increases on the "cuts to state aid", you can always use the Mayors next best excuse... there was a flood and so he needed to raise taxes for that.

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