East Providence
From a press release just out from the East Providence School Committee: The proposal calls for a collaboration among “stakeholders” in developing the system of evaluating teachers that will be the basis for paying them beginning in 2011. The “stakeholders” would include parents, teachers, administrators, the teachers’ union and educational experts from Rhode Island and…
Doesn’t it seem that school districts somehow always just happen to find money? I mean, sometimes a car’s brake lines just happen to go the day after it’s been in the shop for a tuneup, but it’s difficult to know what to make of the Woonsocket superintendent’s claim that the district can now hire a…
General Assembly Auditor General Ernest Almonte has rejected East Providence’s budget balancing plan (PDF): The City of East Providence and the School Department have a well established history of deficits. Unfortunately, the City has failed to adequately resolve its financial dilemma. The current Plan is similar to prior deficit reduction plans which proposed the sale…
The rhetoric about public-sector workers’ doggedly, thanklessly doing the hard work that the community requires, recently promoted around here by Phil, comes to mind especially with the item that I’ve italicized in the following: EAST PROVIDENCE — The city’s teachers have voted to withdraw from volunteer activities in the district’s schools. The roughly 500 educators…
Is anyone else at all squeamish about a city manager asserting the authority to go ahead with layoffs without City Council approval, as has happened in East Providence? For the background, here’s the Projo‘s Alisha A. Pina from yesterday…[East Providence] will lay off 13 of its 100 police officers immediately to save $1 million, City…
… is referenced, in fact, by National Education Association Executive Director John I. Wilson in yesterday’s 7 to 7 ProJo News Blog report about the teachers’ “no confidence” vote in the School Committee. Our goals are basic and universal – to protect the rights of employees and defend quality public education. Undoubtedly, most individual teachers…
East Providence School Committee Chairman Anthony Carcieri has issued a press release on which other elected representatives throughout the state should take notes: On being informed that NEA has voted “no confidence” in the East Providence School Committee, its Chair, Anthony Carcieri, said this. “So what’s new? No union is going to give a big…
The following resolution was passed by unanimous vote of the East Providence Republican City Committee at its meeting on Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Copies of this resolution will be mailed to all state senators and representatives in East Providence. The East Providence Republican City Committee strongly condemns the fiscally irresponsible and grossly short-sighted actions of…
The second speech at the Rhode Island Statewide Coalition’s Winter Meeting came from the East Providence Taxpayers Association’s William Murphy, who focused on local-level movement building (stream entire speech): RISC Chairman Harry Staley’s introduction: stream, download Murphy’s opening remarks: stream, download We must focus on our effectiveness as citizens: stream, download Step 1 is to…
For the record, if the RI Ethics Commission ever finds me “guilty” of pro bono helping someone get due process in a civil proceeding, I sincerely hope that the East Providence Education Association will take out several ads for me, too.
