RIPEC’s recent report on Rhode Island’s shift in state and local taxes and its effect on K-12 education funding was highlighted in a WJAR story. RIPEC’s report found that state aid to education grew nearly three times faster than local aid between fiscal years 2019 and 2023. “The state’s least wealthy districts experienced relatively low increases in state education aid and even smaller increases in local aid,” RIPEC’s Director of Policy and Research Dr. Justine Oliva noted, a combination that makes it more difficult “to get to greater educational equity.”