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Justanidiot. ALAP is the best Warwick can do for gifted kids. What would you expect? how would you make it better? How would you expand it? I was on the school committee and all the people I served with worked hard to keep the program because we believed in it. The schools have a budget problem. In the last 5 years the city budget has gone up $30 million annually and the school budget has gone up $500K during the same period while the schools have been responsible for repairing roofs, fire code upgrades, etc. These repairs were voted by the citizens of Warwick to be fixed in a 2005 Bond. The mayor never released the bond money but the repairs have needed to be done. I voted against raises for staff on numerous occasions to keep money in the programs. The only time I ever voted to give staff a salary increase was when I found the money by getting a concession from the unions. We saved millions of dollars which allowed us to keep programs. There are good members on the committee, they need to do more than follow the instructions of the administration. They should be leaders.

This committee/ administration voted to give raises without doing its due diligence, they didn't have the guts to close a school saving money, and they are looking to get the money for the raises they already spent at the expense of this program. Raises this year cost $437K annually and they didn't close a school, where will the money come from now? Low hanging fruit... this program. What will be cut next? Will it be music like Cranston?

Is the program perfect? Is any program perfect? It doesn't take much to give these kids extra, but taking the little they have will have a large impact on the education they get.

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