Tag: Public Schools
Have Providence’s public schools improved enough to return them to city...
R.I. Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green recently announced that Massachusetts-based SchoolWorks LLC will review the progress of Providence’s public schools since the state took on...
Will GA step in to help ease rising energy costs?
State lawmakers are back with another massive state revenue surplus, now projected at $610 million, likely at their disposal. But having lots of money...
Sojourner House receives $500K federal grant to fund youth response services
PROVIDENCE – Sojourner House announced Tuesday that the anti-violence agency received a $500,000 U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women grant to...
COVID-19 cases rise to 33 in R.I.; public schools to operate...
PROVIDENCE – The number of positive cases of the new coronavirus in the state has increased by 10, to 33, and Gov. Gina M....
R.I. public schools closing; positive coronavirus cases rise
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo on Friday ordered all public schools closed for a week and said Rhode Island’s positive cases of the...
Community must drive changes in Providence schools
As Rhode Island education commissioner Angélica Infante-Green seeks approval for state intervention in Providence’s public schools, it is imperative that change in the district...
PBN on WJAR-TV, Oct. 22, 2018
Will 2018 be the year Rhode Island voters take a stand on the condition of public schools?
Every week, PBN Editor Mark S. Murphy appears...
Will 2018 be the year Rhode Island voters take a stand...
“Embarrassing,” is how R.I. Department of Education Commissioner Ken Wagner described the state of local public elementary, middle and high schools.
“When I visit a...
Bill is now due for decades of neglect of public school...
After decades of neglect, the bill is finally coming due for the most-urgent repairs and upgrades needed at the state’s aging primary- and secondary-education...
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