News Briefs
The finance director of the Narragansett, R.I., school system has been accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the district.
November 17, 2008
Teachers at the Rhode Island School for the Deaf, in Providence, have made a vote of no-confidence in the leadership at the problem-plagued school.
October 28, 2008
Gov. Donald L. Carcieri signed off on the state’s $6.9 billion budget for fiscal 2009 on June 26, including $690 million for K-12 public education in fiscal year 2009.
July 15, 2008
Faced with budget pressures and and opposed to raising taxes, Gov. Carcieri called for a comprehensive review of school funding.
January 29, 2008
If there was any solace to be found in the numbers, said Larry Berman, a spokesman for House Speaker William J. Murphy, it is that education could have fared worse.
July 17, 2007
Rhode Island teachers have a new resource: a Web-based archive of lesson plans, student work, and videos—all aligned with the state’s academic expectations for students.
April 10, 2007
Fewer than a third of students in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont scored proficient or higher in math.
March 14, 2008
If Rhode Island town leaders have their way, they’ll ditch public education’s current bureaucracy and start over with a clean slate.
December 18, 2007
Instituting performance-based assessments that link content to skills is a promising new approach to redesigning high schools, writes Joseph DiMartino.
April 23, 2007
In a move likely to raise the profile of teachers’ contracts as a force in school success or failure, education policymakers and union leaders came together last week under the auspices of the National Governors Association for a mutual look at collective bargaining.
December 19, 2006
