Tag: Public Schools
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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