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![[CREDIT: WP Chart] A chart showing the cost and number of years of bonds and out-of-district placements attributed to aging sports fields. The current and proposed bonds are short term, 20 year expenses. The cost of uncompetitive facilities adds money to the budget every year, and is also expected to increase yearly, burdening taxpayers long past the 20-year bonds payoff date.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/bond-cost-table-2-250x228.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick School Department’s plan for facilities that’ll curb sports-related out-of-district placements snagged with the $50M bond defeat Feb. 3, so now city and school officials are looking for at least $13 million to build the planned fields.
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Warwick Veterans Middle School, 2401 W Shore Rd, Warwick, RI, is the venue for the Warwick School Committee meetings.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Warwick-Veterans-Middle-School-250x228.jpg)
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![[CREDIT: Rob Borklowski] Warwick City Hall on Post Road. The Warwick City Council's first meeting adjusts rules on meeting agendas, moving public comment one item later, and preserves a rule cited in a First Amendment Lawsuit against the Council.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Warwick-City-Hall-250x228.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — Hours after Warwick Teachers protested outside Warwick City Hall urging officials to increase the Warwick Schools budget, Mayor Frank Picozzi increased school funding to $2.1 million. The […]
![[WP Composite] From left, Acting Superintendent William McCaffrey and retired Superintendent Lynn Dambruch.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/McCaffrey-Acting-Dambruch-Retires-05-13-25-250x228.jpg)
WARWICK, RI – The School Committee accepted the notice of retirement from Superintendent Lynn Dambruch and named William McCaffrey as Acting Superintendent unanimously Tuesday. Committee Chairman Shaun Galligan, David Testa, […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Lynn Dambruch, director of elementary education, was appointed interim secondary education director duties Jan. 23. She was named assistant superintendent March 3.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Dambruch-School-Committee-Jan-23-140x140.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Schools Superintendent Lynn Dambruch, on personal leave since mid-March, is retiring, hinted at in the May 13 Warwick School Committee’s executive session agenda. The executive session […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] The Warwick Schools Budget Commission after its Wednesday afternoon meeting at the Sawtooth Building. Pictured, from top left to bottom, Ernest Almonte, David Champagne, Angela P. Murray and Sherri Kuntze.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Warwick-School-Budget-Commission-250x228.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick Schools Budget Commission wrapped its review of School Department purchasing Wednesday night, hours before Mayor Frank Picozzi sent his proposed $380M FY26 budget, with $194M […]
WARWICK, RI — Mayor Frank Picozzi’s three appointees to the Warwick Schools Budget Commission, dated April 9, are now public in Warwick City Council documents released with the agenda for […]
WARWICK, RI – Tuesday night the School Committee cut another $ 2.6 million from their budget, bringing an original $9 million FY25 deficit down to $3.1 million. The vote was […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick School Committee continued chipping away at its Warwick Schools deficit Thursday, cutting $401,248 for a new FY25 deficit total of $5,704,119. “We have approximately another […]
![[CREDIT: WP composite] A $350M new high schools project will begin in late 2024.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/New-Warwick-High-Schools-Warwick-RI-1-300x225.jpg)
WARWICK, RI – Budget overruns for the new Toll Gate and Pilgrim High Schools have been reduced from $37.8 million to $22.9 million, Left Field Project Management’s Chris Spiegel told […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] School Committee Chairman Shaun Galligan explains the School Committee already has the deficit problem fix underway.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Warwick-Schools-Budget-Commission-Vote-1-250x228.jpeg)
WARWICK, RI — Despite School Committee Chairman Shaun Galligan’s best efforts, the clock is ticking on Warwick Schools’ solution to its $9 million deficit before a Warwick Schools Budget Commission […]
![[CREDIT: WSC] At left, Warwick School Committee Chairman Shaun Galligan explains Warwick School Committee cuts to the FY25 budget would be the first of three rounds.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Warwick-School-Committee-Cuts-Deficit-FY25-250x228.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Schools face a $9 million FY25 deficit, so Warwick School Committee cuts of $2.8 million approved Tuesday will be the first of three rounds of expense reductions […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] City officials enter main ball room at Crowne Plaza for the Warwick Inauguration Jan. 8, 2025. From left, front, Kim Picozzi, her husband, Mayor Frank Picozzi, Warwick City Council President Anthony Sinapi, City Councilman Jeremy Rix, majority leader, followed by council members Willam Foley (Ward 1), Vincent Gebhart (Ward 9) Bryan Nappa (Ward 3), Sal DeLuise (Ward 4) Edgar Ladouceur (Ward 5) William Muto (Ward 6) and John Kirby (Ward 7).](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Warwick-Inauguration-01-07-25-4-250x228.jpeg)
WARWICK, RI — Officials gathered at Crowne Plaza Hotel, 801 Greenwich Ave., Tuesday night for the Warwick inauguration of newly elected and re-elected leaders, celebrating Mayor Frank Picozzi’s first four-year […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Warwick Public Schools Administration is located at 69 Draper Ave.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Warwick-Public_Schools-140x140.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Schools facilities Director Kevin Oliver and Director of Capital Projects Steven Gothberg each broke the law, giving the district reasonable cause for termination, ignoring rules for […]
![[CREDIT: WPS] Warwick Schools Finance Director Brandon Bohl, pictured second from let at table, reported Warwick Schools FY24 salaries were over budget by $4.8 million for FY24 during Tuesday's Warwick School Committee meeting.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Warwick-Schools-FY24-Salaries-Bohl-250x228.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Schools Finance Director Brandon Bohl says Warwick Schools FY24 salaries were over budget by $4.8 million for FY24, which the administration recommends fixing by increasing FY25 […]
![[CREDIT: Zachary Colon] Zach Colon is running for an at-large seat in the 2024 Warwick School Committee race.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Zach-Colon-Warwick-School-Committee-250x228.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — Zach Colon, former high school student political leader and an institutional investment wholesaler in Smithfield, hopes to improve district and city communication, bolster Career & Tech Center […]
![[CREDIT: Robert Ford] Karen Bachus, candidate in the School Committee race Nov. 5, 2024.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Warwick_School_Committee_Bachus-250x228.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — Karen Bachus, an outspoken and often contrarian voice on the Warwick School Committee since she was first elected in 2012, is one of four School Committee candidates […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick School Committee approved the new Toll Gate plan for the Stage 3 schematic design, and heard criticism of the district’s LGBTQ policy from a Westerly […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] A voter makes his choices during the 2014 primary. The 2024 primary in Warwick advanced two School Committee incumbents and Ward 7 hopeful Stephen Mulcahey to the Nov. 5 election.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Warwick-primary-Results-voter1-250x228.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — At 10:30 p.m., with all precincts reporting, Warwick Primary Results appeared to advance two School Committee incumbents and Ward 7 hopeful Jack Kirby to the Nov. 5 […]
![[CREDIT: WPS] Warwick School Committee Chairman Shaun Galligan addresses the audience, outlining the details of the new high schools project staring March 2025.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/New-High-Schools-Galligan-Addresses-Crowd-250x228.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — Construction of Toll Gate & Pilgrim’s new high schools begins March 2025 and is expected to wrap June 2027, the public learned during an information session […]
WARWICK, RI — The revised New High Schools designs for the new Pilgrim High School met with a mixed reaction before the School Committee approved it Tuesday. The Pilgrim High […]
![[CREDIT: Warwick Schools] The Warwick School Committee is exerting extra contract oversight following an investigation into an allegedly improper contract award the City of Warwick asked the RI State Police to investigate.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Committee-Exerts-Extra-Contract-Oversight-300x225.jpg)
WARWICK, RI – The School Department will be maintaining greater contract oversight after the RI State Police began investigating the district for hiring Jada Trucking for contracts without first advertising […]
WARWICK, RI — Although construction for new high schools replacing the Toll Gate and Pilgrim buildings is set for March 2025, the project is still very much a work in […]
WARWICK, RI — The School Committee voted 4 to 1 Tuesday to approve five teacher layoffs for the next school year, including three art teachers, a business teacher at Warwick […]
WARWICK, RI — Tuesday, the School Committee approved Dimeo Construction as the new high schools project Construction Manager, to replace Pilgrim and Toll Gate High Schools. Construction on the project […]
![[CREDIT: RICLU] A recent report by the ACLU of RI outlines public speaking rules of RI communities governing bodies, including the Warwick City Council and Warwick School Committee. A rule barring personal attacks or salacious comments, unwritten for the Council and written for the Committee, is being chllenged in a lawsuit against the Council.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/RIACLU-RI-Public-Speech-Report-300x225.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — Warwick School Committee Chairman Shaun Galligan says the board is re-examining its public speaker rules after an American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island report noted its […]
WARWICK, RI – Tuesday night, the Warwick School Committee voted to table a health/physical education policy, approved an $11,000 Gamm after-school program and OK’d new Tech Department Chromebooks at $982K, […]
![[CREDIT: Warwick Schools] Lisa Schultz, Director of Curriculum, reported Warwick School math and English testing progress during the Nov. 14 School Committee meeting.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Warwick-RICAS-Scores-2023-140x140.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — While the School Committee has praised progress among certain schools in English and Math on Warwick RICAS scores, the district has plans to address four schools that […]
WARWICK, RI — New Warwick High School’s designs are expected within the year as discussions among city officials regarding financing the $350 million project continue. The $350 million bond to […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council voted 8-1 to release $350 million in building bonds for two new high schools Monday, though a new estimate shows the voter-approved plan […]
![[CREDIT: WPS] The Warwick School Committee during their Aug. 8, 2023 meeting.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Warwick-School-Committee-Aug.-8-2023-140x140.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — A number of school renovations are nearing completion, according to Stephen Gothberg, the Director of Buildings and Grounds, during Tuesday’s school committee meeting at Warwick Veterans school. […]
![[CREDIT WPS Livestream] Warwick School Committee Member Shaun Galligan, left, led a successful vote to delay the Warwick Schools Budget hearing until information required in School Committee policy is available. School Committee Chair David Testa is at right.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Warwick-Schools-Budget-FY24-School-Committee-140x140.png)
WARWICK, RI – The School Committee suspended its hearing on Superintendent Lynn Dambruch’s $141,463,624 FY24 Warwick Schools budget until Thursday after Vice Chairman Shaun Galligan led a vote to wait […]
![[CREDIT: Warwick Post composite image] A $350M new high schools project may be delayed, as the Warwick School Committee discussed while reviewing the projects Tuesday night.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/New-High-Schools-Warwick-RI-140x140.jpg)
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported the matter voted on Tuesday night. The vote concerned support for extending the start and end deadlines on for work on […]
WARWICK, RI – The school district was rocked by high profile resignations Thursday, including Timothy McGrath, the Director of Finance; Julie Martin, the Principal of Warwick Early Learning Center (WELC); […]
WARWICK, RI —Nationwide staffing challenges are also creating a bus driver shortage and lack of crossing guard staffing in Warwick, with no easy or complete solutions, the Warwick School Committee […]
WARWICK, RI – Warwick School officials are upbeat about the latest round of English & Math RICAS scores that buck a downward national trend for 2021-2022. During a presentation to […]
WARWICK, RI — Darlene Netcoh, President of the Warwick Teachers Union, praised Tuesday’s approval of the $350 million bond to replace Toll Gate and Pilgrim High Schools during Wednesday night’s […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick School Committee meets at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Warwick Veterans Middle School to discuss policies on student surveys, accommodations for students with seizure disorders and […]
![[CREDIT: Warwick Public Library] Candidates and moderators in the Oct. 20 School Committee candidates forum: From back, left, Leah Hazelwood and Steve DiPalma for Dist. 2, Michelle Kirby Chapman and CJ Donovan for Dist. 3; from front, left: Frank Brown and Sean Galligan for Dist. 1 and moderators Warwick Beacon Editor John Howell, and Lara D'Antuono, director of the Boys & Girls Clubs Of Warwick.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Warwick-School-Committee-Candidate-Beacon-Library-Forum-140x140.png){kind=tracking}
WARWICK, RI — The six Warwick School Committee candidates, two each for Districts 1, 2 and 3, met at the Warwick Public Library Thursday at 5:30 p.m. for a forum […]
WARWICK, RI — The School Committee voted 4 to 1 Tuesday to send out layoff notices to four teachers in the district following a brief executive session at Warwick Veterans […]
