The bill would give EGSD $400K more in state funding this year
East Greenwich elected officials traveled to the State House Tuesday (4/29/25) to testify in favor of a bill that would soften the state funding cut to East Greenwich schools. In FY2025, the state gave East Greenwich more than $7 million in state aid but Gov. Dan McKee’s FY 2026 budget calls for a $860,000 reduction in that number (FY 2026 starts July 1). It is the largest reduction in state aid of any municipality by more than 50 percent. Barrington, second-hardest hit, is facing a $400,000 reduction.
Bill 2025-H 5749 would give such communities a 75 percent reprieve, meaning they would get 75 percent of the proposed reduction instead of 50 percent, which is the current status. (East Greenwich would have seen a $1.6 million reduction in state aid without that provision.)…