McCaffrey: Full $144M City School Funds Needed to Defeat Deficits
By: Rob Borkowski on May 15, 2025 in News to You, Schools
WARWICK, RI — Warwick School officials reviewed recent progress righting their FY26 budget at a special City Council meeting Wednesday, reiterating the need for $144,994,755 in school funds requested in […]
WPS Finance Director Bohl Resigns Feb.19 During ‘Investigation’
By: Rob Borkowski on February 19, 2025 in Schools
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Schools Finance Director Brandon Bohl has resigned a week after he was placed on paid administrative leave Feb. 12 as an outside consultant helping him investigated […]
Committee Cuts FY25 Warwick Schools Deficit to $3M
By: Rob Borkowski on February 12, 2025 in News to You, Schools
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 Schools Deficit Cut to $5.7M Thursday
By: Joe Siegel on February 1, 2025 in News to You, Schools
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 […]
New High Schools Cost Review Continues Tonight, 6 p.m.
By: Rob Borkowski on January 30, 2025 in Schools
WARWICK, RI — There’s still $22.9 million to cut from the new high schools cost before it’s within the original $350 million voter-approved bond, and what is cut next, or […]
Council Votes on Warwick Schools Budget Commission Jan. 22
By: Rob Borkowski on January 21, 2025 in News to You, Schools
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council meets Wednesday, 4:45 p.m. to vote on whether to establish a Warwick Schools Budget Commission state takeover of Warwick Public Schools to remedy […]
Warwick School Committee Cuts $2.8M of $9M Deficit
By: Joe Siegel on January 15, 2025 in News to You, Schools
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 […]
Baxter: Teacher Cuts Solve FY22 $7.5M Deficit
By: Joe Siegel on April 14, 2021 in Schools
WARWICK, RI — Warwick schools are short $7.5 million, and have 34 too many teachers, reported Robert Baxter, Director of Finance and Operations, at the April 13 Warwick School Committee […]
‘A New Day’: Warwick School Committee OKs Extra $3.9M
By: Robert Ford on July 26, 2019 in News to You, Schools
WARWICK, RI — “It’s a new day in Warwick,” said Karen Backus, school committee chair, after the committee voted 5-0 to approve $3,985,474 in additional funding allocated by the Warwick […]
City Council OKs Sinapi $4M School Priority Funding Plan
By: Rob Borkowski on July 15, 2019 in News to You, Schools
WARWICK — The Warwick City Council began their meeting Monday with a resolution granting $1.3 million to Warwick Schools for sports, but Councilman Anthony Sinapi’s amendment turned it into a […]
Thornton: School Deficit Talk Needed, Solomon’s Numbers ‘Misleading’
By: Rob Borkowski on June 3, 2019 in News to You
WARWICK, R.I. — Mayor Joseph J. Solomon announced his interest to “extend negotiation” with Warwick Schools on their budget deficit in a release Superintendent Philip Thornton called ‘deliberately misleading,’ while […]