The regional head of the environmental protection agency said Rhode Island is doing state-of-the-art planning for climate change threats. Curt Spalding…
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Kids Count: RI Has Highest Child Poverty Rate In New England
New numbers out of Rhode Island Kids Count show the number of children living in poverty has grown nearly five percent since the start of the Great…
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Cranston Superintendent Retiring
Cranston will have to hire a new superintendent of schools. The current Superintendent Judith Lundsten plans to retire at the end of June. In a message…
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New Push To Teach Students How To ‘Code Like A Girl’
Women make up nearly 60 percent of the U-S workforce, but Federal Labor Department Statistics show they account for less than a quarter of all software…
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Social Workers, Lawmakers Debate Blame for DCYF’s Deficits
A bill to change the requirements to lead the state Department of Children, Youth and Families ran into opposition from social workers during a House…
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RI Leaders React To President Obama’s State Of The Union Address
President Barack Obama delivered his sixth state of the Union address last night. His main focus was the middle class, as the nation continues to…
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RISD Begins Interviews In Search For New President
The Rhode Island School of Design has started conducting “preliminary interviews” in the search for a new president, a little more than a year after the…
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Meet the Class of 2015: State Representative Aaron Regunberg
With 18 new members in the 113-seat General Assembly, On Politics is offering a periodic look at the latest additions to the House and Senate. We…
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This I Believe Rhode Island: Hope Over Depression
All of us have known someone in the midst of deep, relentless despair, someone whose challenges in life seem so intractable, so overwhelming that there…
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RI Education Commissioner Gist Confirms She Is Finalist For Job In Tulsa
R.I. state Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Deborah Gist has confirmed that she is a finalist for the Superintendent of Schools post in…
