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This is what happens when a town spends $30 million/year on police/fire and only $72 million on schools. Schools get ignored.

Barrington spends $6 million on police/fire and $45 million on schools. Cranston spends $14 million on police/fire and $137 million on schools. Do you see the difference in ratio?

EP is the only town in America that spends nearly half of what it spends on schools on police/fire.

The teachers and students may be great, but we live in a superficial world. Nobody with children wants to move to a town with dilapidated schools. Real estate values drop. Incoming taxes drop. More local kids go to La Salle. Ex-Townies move to Seekonk.

Wake up EP Town Hall, or you'll be the next Warwick!
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