Well, it has come to this, but I think it important enough to re-post and remind people of things done / stated, leading up to where we are regarding school funding:

from a statement released by Templeton Town Administrator, Carter Terenzini:

" . . .And - in terms of dollars to us - it means that even after all of the required cuts and disruption, even after all of the negative publicity counter to our efforts to attract and retain school choice students - a source of some $2.2 Million dollars of income to our district - and potential loss of local pride; the NRSD would still need an increase in local combined funding of some $235,000. That is roughly $195,500 to us and $39,500 to Phillipston; cuts we would both have to identify quickly in order to be prepared to propose cuts at the potential June Special Town Meeting to not only approve any recertified NRSD budget but to cut our FY '20 Opex budgets just approved at our respective Town Meetings. . . . "

I am not sure of the source of 2.2 million in revenue, but I do know what information is presented by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education;

Narragansett Regional School District receives the state cap of $5,000.00 for each school choice student that comes into the district (school choice receiving) while the district spends an average of $8,830.00 per each of those school choice students, so how do school choice students equate to positive revenue when you spend more on them than they bring?

Remember, or go look, at the budget message from the Narragansett Regional School District:

"A budget is a moral document. What we fund is what we value." So, I would ask each member of the school committee, do you value your community in which you live?

If you do, you would seriously rethink the district budget that you continue to put before the residents of your respective communities. You would reconsider your continued use of school choice as both a revenue source and an operational element to the entity which you are suppose to look after, the school, as an entity, but perhaps more importantly, the community from where each member of the school committee comes from. Your steadfast refusal to reconsider and use the numbers (dollar figures) that others (DLS, DESE) are using and agree are reliable, has the result of doing the opposite of what your budget message states. In my opinion, it shows you either do not value your community or you do not truly comprehend the meaning of your budget message.