Education Week: Rhode Island

Cities seek more money from tax-exempt colleges

Mon, 07 May 2012 00:05:00 -0400

State of the States

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:02:00 -0500

Here are summaries of recent annual addresses by governors around the country.

After-School Programs

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:08:00 -0400

A new study shows that middle school students enrolled in a citywide after-school program in Providence, R.I., had better school attendance records than peers who did not participate.

With Hospital's Help, R.I. District Brings Spec. Ed. Pupils Back

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:05:00 -0400

The East Providence, R.I., schools enlisted a local psychiatric hospital to help reduce the number of students bused out of the district for special services.

Providence Superintendent Leaving

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:04:00 -0400

Thomas Brady, a retired Army colonel and graduate of the Broad Foundation-sponsored superintendents academy, said he will step down as chief of the 23,700-student Providence, R.I., school district by summer.

Big-Name Crowd Lends Gist Support

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:02:00 -0500

A new education group has penned a letter asking Rhode Island's governor to keep the state schools chief on the job and keep the basic composition of the state's board of regents, which appoints her.

Rhode Island Considers 2-Tiered Diploma System

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:11:00 -0400

Hope, Caution Vie at R.I. High School

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:09:00 -0400

Teachers at a Rhode Island school who were fired and ultimately rehired have returned to their classrooms amid hopes that changes they agreed to will help improve student performance.

R.I. Aims at Equity in Funding Formula

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:08:00 -0400

For the first time in more than 15 years, Rhode Island has a statewide school funding formula that supporters say will more equitably dole out money to its public schools.

New R.I. School Funding Formula Aims at Equity

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:07:00 -0400

The new law sets a baseline amount for each student in the state and adds money to account for those in poverty.

Making Decisions Together: The Rebirth of Central Falls High School

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:07:00 -0400

Rhode Island’s commissioner of education writes that an agreement between the teachers’ union and the school district in that state’s most impoverished city has put its much-publicized high school on the fast track to improvement.

R.I. Board Backs Off Firings; Teachers Keep Their Jobs

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:06:00 -0400

The Central Falls, R.I., school board approved an agreement last week to let teachers at the city's troubled high school keep their jobs after all were fired.

R.I. District Says Judges Should Be Able to Hear Case

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:05:00 -0400

Officials of a Rhode Island school district where all the high school teachers have been fired say there is no need for judges in the state to recuse themselves from a pending federal lawsuit.

After-School Programs

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:05:00 -0400

Cities seeking role models on the after-school programming front need look no further than Providence, R.I., according to a new study.