Education

It appears that the collapse of the Education Partnership may have more to it than a drying up of revenue: The Education Partnership, an advocacy organization backed by local businesses, went into receivership last month, in part because several contracts to produce research and reports for municipalities and school districts fell through, said Shine. He…

I missed this (and this) back in May (h/t Matt J.), but it’s worth noting that RI’s compulsory High School Capstone Projects are being eyeballed across the country, according to a ProJo report about a symposium convened to discuss RI’s program. Some states are considering the merits of adding such student exhibitions to their own…

A year ago it was North Providence interim-Mayor John Sisto who was the honorary chair of the movement to allow relatives of Rhode Island pols to attend the public school of their choice, free of charge. This election cycle, according to a Gerry Goldstein report in this week’s Valley Breeze, it looks like Smithfield Town…

This will come as a surprise to those (non-insiders) who follow Rhode Island’s public policy debates; from Jennifer D. Jordan of the Projo…The Education Partnership, a nonprofit advocacy organization that produced reports and consulted with local school districts, has closed its doors and filed for receivership in Superior Court, unable to pay its bills…. “The…

The House debated Article 38, Sub A of the Budget this evening. Below is my liveblog of the debate, for the record. (I see Matt covered it too, including a list of who voted how–wonder how he got the list so fast?).

Cumberland Mayor Dan McKee’s plan to start up a mayoral academy in Blackstone Valley received the endorsement of the House Finance Committee last week. After initial opposition, the Rhode Island League of Charter Schools has come on board, the ProJo reports. And support for the plan is growing amongst Democratic politicians: “It’s time to think…

Here’s a question, which I present without insinuation in any direction: What can one glean from the fact that none of Tiverton High School’s top 10 students are going to Ivy League colleges? Does it say something about the school system? About Ivy League schools? About the increasing difficulty of getting into top schools lately?…

Add this to the list of lists that place Rhode Island on the wrong side: As of the most recent state report card issued by the National Association for Gifted Children, Rhode Island ranks at the bottom in nearly all categories, earning the state the dubious label of “most in need” with regard to critical…

The ProJo had an excellent piece over the weekend on the Learning Community charter school in Central Falls. It showed the sort of problems faced by today’s educators in an urban community and also highlighted the sort of innovative thinking it takes to get results. And that’s all that most parents want: results. If the…

The latest “Exhibit A” of the old maxim that there are “lies, damn lies and statistics” comes with news that RI is graduating even fewer seniors out of High School than we thought. Rhode Island’s high school graduation rate is 19 percentage points lower than previously reported, and at 70.1 percent hovers just under the…