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I am shocked by the amount of administrative bloat in this organizational chart for a school system with less than 10,000 students. Part of the problem is with Dr. Thornton and Dr. Ryan's philosophies that more administrators, who have no contact with students, is the solution. Rhode Island has 47 districts and 38 superintendents in a state that serves just over 142,000 students (for comparison, Charlotte, NC, 147,000, one superintendent). This 'every town gets a superintendent' philosophy contributes to its under-performing schools, especially comparatively to Massachusetts. It's time to consolidate, at least into counties, take advantage of economies of scale to help floundering budgets and make it easy to share the best teaching and learning strategies. I think this reorganization plan is a step in the wrong direction and will not help Warwick dig out of this hole that they find themselves in.