The Warwick public school lunch debacle ended, in part because of a donation by an out-of-state company, estimated to be worth more than a billion dollars. The Greek-yogurt maker Chobani plans to donate nearly $50,000 to the Warwick public schools to pay off debts owed by families in the district for school lunch. Warwick captured […]
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Top RI Lawmakers Put Their Support Behind New Push To Improve Public Schools
A seven-bill legislative package unveiled by Rhode Island’s top lawmakers Tuesday was billed as a way to emulate Massachusetts’ success in improving public schools. During a Statehouse news conference, House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello and Senate President Dominick Ruggerio were joined by fellow lawmakers in sketching out the plan. Efforts to improve Rhode Island’s under-performing public […]
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Maine School Districts Under Pressure Amid Spike In Homeless Youth
Maine is seeing a growing number of young people, from preschool through 12th grade, who are homeless or displaced. They are moving into shelters, couch surfing with other families and, in rare cases, camping or living in cars. According to the National Center for Homeless Education the number of homeless youth increased by 30 percent in just two years.
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Education Experts Weigh In On Push To Expand State-Funded Pre-K
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo is focusing on pre-kindergarten, in her effort to improve education in the state. Elizabeth Burke Bryant, Director of Rhode Island Kids Count, and Khadija Lewis Khan, Director of Beautiful Beginnings Child Care Center in Providence, joined reporter John Bender to talk about the challenges and opportunities of expanding the state-funded […]
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Hampshire College President Resigns Amid Rift Over School’s Future
The president of Hampshire College has quit her post amid mounting turmoil over the future of the small private school in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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New England Colleges & Accreditation Issues: The Region’s Commission President Weighs In
Two small liberal arts colleges in Vermont will close in a few months, another will stop teaching students at the end of this semester, and one more is on probation. At the heart of each school closing is a troubling financial picture, which is tied to another factor: the school’s accreditation.
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Mass. School Introduces Sensory Walk To Help Students Learn
A Holyoke, Massachusetts, public school has something new to help students learn. It’s not on a chalkboard or in a book. It’s on the floor.
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Infante-Green Vows To Deliver Improvements In RI Student Performance
Angélica Infante-Green, who is designated to be Rhode Island’s next education commissioner, vowed Tuesday to deliver measurable improvements in student performance over the next few years and to remain in the state “for the long haul.”
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Raimondo Recommends Infante-Green As RI’s Next Education Commissioner
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo is turning to Angélica Infante-Green – a one-time teacher in the South Bronx who was a finalist last year to become Massachusetts’ education commissioner – to take on the challenge of improving public education in Rhode Island.
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UConn Students Experiment With Classroom Cannabis
It’s something you might expect to see on a poster in a dorm. Bright green leaves, fanned and serrated. It’s cannabis. Except today, it’s center stage on a table in the biggest lecture hall on UConn’s campus. But first, it had to get there. “I drive a UConn van into the middle of campus and […]
