East Providence
It would go too far to speculate that this sort of thing is widespread: Statewide testing procedures were violated at Whiteknact Elementary School last October when at least 14 third graders were given extra time, the state Department of Education has concluded. And now school officials are looking into whether another violation occurred when the…
… to issue teacher layoff notices. Tonight, the School Committee voted 4-1 to approve the recommendation by Superintendent Mario Cirillo to send lay off notices, effective September 1, to fifty five teachers. Most of the time, in most cities and towns, only a fraction of those receiving notices are actually laid off. School Committee member…
According to a press release from the Ocean State Policy Research Institute (printed in full in the extended entry), without public discussion, the Rhode Island Labor Relations Board has declined to consider the East Providence School Committee’s complaint against the union: “The State Labor Relations Board reported it has dismissed unfair labor practice charges filed…
East Providence Representative John Savage (R-East Providence) describes a philosophy of public education that is fundamentally self-contradictory. On one hand, there was the system back in the day — which cultivated those Americans who reached for the moon, invented the computer-driven society, and built history’s most dynamic economy: WHEN I BEGAN teaching in the late…
Here is one financial measure of exactly how dire a situation in the city is in. Suprintendent Mario Cirillo praises the level of professionalism and effort exhibited by East Providence school system personnel… …and outlines a plan for administrative restructuring that he believes will eventually save the city $400,000 per year, while helping to create…
This is being treated as a secondary matter, but in the long range it might be the more significant thread coming loose in East Providence: The state Labor Relations Board has decided to hold a formal hearing on a complaint by the city teachers union that the School Committee violated Rhode Island labor law by…
An East Providence school committee member in attendance at the Ed Achorn talk gave me a copy of a flier that’s going to homes across the town: Inside are a few union talking points presented in a “true or false” format, my favorite of which is the following (emphasis in original): It’s the teachers’ fault…
The East Providence School Committee just won the day in court — at least to the extent that the judge denied the union’s request for an injunction against the imposition of the School Committee’s remuneration change. Decision: PDF School Committee Press Release: PDF
When East Providence taxpayer Tom Riley spoke during the Public Comment segment of Tuesday’s School Committee meeting, members of the NEA and other unions from around the state boo’ed and shouted him down. (It should be noted that Mr. Riley would, nevertheless, have carried on with his remarks but the School Committee determined that the…
