RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE will lay of workers, cut salaries and close Henry Barnard School at the end of the academic year due to a $10 million budget gap, the school announced on Thursday. /COURTESY RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island College will lay off workers, cut pay for high-level executives and shutter an elementary school on its campus in an attempt to close a projected $10.4 million budget gap, the college announced. College President Frank D. Sanchez in a statement released Thursday night said the pandemic has posed one of the…