Education

South Kingstown School Committee discusses lawsuit

South Kingstown’s School Committee is abusing its position, even if it isn’t suing a local mother.

By Justin Katz | June 3, 2021 |

According to William Jacobson on Legal Insurrection, the South Kingstown School Committee has voted not to sue local mom Nicole Solas, but instead to try to resolve their differences outside of the courts.  In this case, remember, “resolving differences” means providing a taxpayer with information to which she has a legal right. In these circumstances, it’s always…

South Kingstown schools logo

Is the South Kingstown School Committee retaliating against a resident for seeking information about indoctrination in the schools?

By Justin Katz | June 2, 2021 |

Nicole Solas describes her experience as a concerned mother with the schools in South Kingstown, on Legal Insurrection: These initial high estimates of public records requests are common barriers to parents obtaining information about their children’s school district. A parent in another Rhode Island school district received an estimate of $17,295.75 to obtain public information related…

Providence Student Union Bill of Rights sign

The Providence Student Union “Student’s Bill of Rights” is a righteousness redirect.

By Justin Katz | June 1, 2021 |

The featured image of this post, which is one of several paid ads that the Providence Student Union has placed around Providence, according to Steve Ahlquist on Uprise RI, illustrates how off base the demands of progressive ideology have thrown young activists.  The full list of 23 asserted rights isn’t much better. Note to students:  Your…

Panelists for Legal Insurrections Unity Not Division event

A broad coalition opposes critical race theory in our schools.

By Justin Katz | May 31, 2021 |

William Jacobson has posted video on Legal Insurrection of an event his organization sponsored addressing the move toward “critical race theory” activism, particularly in our towns and in our schools.  Here’s the 38-minute highlight video; the original post has the full video.

A hoodie on a beaten school bus

National Report Card and Real RI Promise: Worse State Does, More Money It Takes

By Justin Katz | May 27, 2021 |

Continuing Rhode Island’s approach to addressing its education catastrophe will only buy more time for special interests to avoid the pressure for change.

Canoes on a rack

Summer camp COVID rules are approaching child abuse.

By Justin Katz | May 26, 2021 |

Rhode Island needs a reset of its attitude on COVID, because we’re compounding and extending the economic damage we’ve done through our reaction to the coronavirus by amping up psychological damage to our children.  Courtney Carter reports on WPRI: When kids return to summer camp this year, they’ll still need to bring their face masks…

A foot massage

Politics This Week with John DePetro: Playing Footsie in a Parasitic Legislature

By Justin Katz | May 24, 2021 |

For this week’s conversation, John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the complete lack of will to fix education for Rhode Island kids or reduce abuse for Rhode Island taxpayers.

Diana Lozowski on Rhody Reporter

Status Quo is “a polite Latin term which means ‘kids with a Providence high school diploma can’t read, write, or cipher numbers’.”

By Justin Katz | May 17, 2021 |

Diana Lozowski breaks down the causes of Providence schools’ lamentable performance, on the latest Rhody Reporter.  At the end of the day, she puts the blame on all of us who have allowed this to happen by the way we vote.

Providence students disembark for school

A play for more money in RI education distracts from the real problems.

By Justin Katz | May 17, 2021 |

As, essentially, the chief lobbyist for Rhode Island’s school committees, Timothy Duffy has an obvious angle he’ll take on behalf of his members.  In a recent op-ed in the Providence Journal, for example, he calls for Rhode Islanders to amend our state constitution to make “equal education” a constitutional right.  Readers can get a sense of…

Rep. Christopher Blazejewski

GoLocal on the House Majority Leader’s lack of interest in minority issues is an example for news media.

By Justin Katz | May 12, 2021 |

If journalism were really about holding the powerful accountable and approaching them with a skeptical eye, we’d see a lot more stories like this one, in which the GoLocal Prov News Team reported the difficulty that the minority women who make up the pro-charter-school group Stop the Wait RI have been having getting any response from…