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Newport schools superintendent thanks city and urges state funding reform as council reviews 2027 budget
Summary
Superintendent Colin Burns Germaine thanked city officials for a tentative 4% allocation and urged state-level fixes to how public schools are funded while addressing the city's proposed 2027 budget.
Colin Burns Germaine, identifying himself as Superintendent of Newport Public Schools, expressed appreciation to the city manager and finance director for their work with the schools on the proposed 2027 budget. "I want to thank the city manager and the city finance director for working with the schools to try to address this year's budget," Germaine said.
Germaine said the current statewide approach to school funding is "broken" and hoped it would be fixed so schools could be funded based on students' needs rather than enrollment counts. He also thanked the council for a tentative 4% figure included in the budget at that time and expressed further appreciation at the hearing's end.
The superintendent framed his remarks as both gratitude and an appeal for systemic reform, emphasizing the limits of local control over broader funding structures. The transcript does not include a detailed request for a specific local appropriation beyond the noted tentative 4% figure nor a response committing new local funds.
