Tag: Education
Ernst & Young: PPSD budget needs to be more flexible, student-centered
PROVIDENCE – The Providence Public School District has historically viewed its annual operating budget as being fixed and that mentality should shift to a...
RIF education brainstorm draws diverse perspectives
PROVIDENCE - Educational equity. Universal pre-K. Transportation, teacher benefits and even amending the Rhode Island Constitution.
Ideas big and small filled the room, shared in...
New 3-year contract for CCRI staff ratified
WARWICK – A new three-year contract for the Community College of Rhode Island Faculty Association was ratified by the R.I. Council on Postsecondary Education...
CCRI proposing $62.9M bond for campus renovations
PROVIDENCE — The Community College of Rhode Island is proposing a $62.9 million general revenue bond that, if approved, would finance long-overdue renovations to...
Business a key part of Infante-Green’s blueprint for takeover of Providence...
R.I. Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green has been in Rhode Island for less than a year, but she now finds herself trying to fix a...
College Crusade of Rhode Island enjoying a high degree of success
2019 PBN Business Excellence Awards
EXCELLENCE AT A SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: The College Crusade of Rhode Island
THE COLLEGE CRUSADE of Rhode Island recently finished...
We can all be civic leaders
Neil D. Steinberg | Rhode Island Foundation CEO and president
Leadership is not an executive title. Leaders do not have to be anointed, trained or...
R.I. education chief says improved RICAS scores not enough
PROVIDENCE – About 38% of Rhode Island students in grades 3 to 8 met or exceeded expectations in English and nearly 30% in math...
Policies on student behavior need overhaul
In the wake of the John Hopkins report that exposed some of the behavioral challenges that affect Providence public schools, there were inevitably other...
Take the opportunity with city schools to boost future workforce
Providence public schools will undoubtedly function better and produce better-educated students five years from now, the soonest a planned state takeover will end. But...
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