The Rhode Island Board of Regents sent education activists back to the drawing board last Thursday when it rejected a controversial application for a semi-public Cranston charter school. The application, submitted by the nonprofit Achievement First, proposed creating an elementary mayoral academy — ...
Though a law allowing same-sex couples to enter into civil unions has been on the books since July, few couples have taken advantage of the new option, and the change has spurred little fanfare in the gay community.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority announced a plan in August to reevaluate its services and fares due to a budget shortfall that has worsened in recent years.
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority has proposed a 30 percent service reduction, including the termination of all service after 10 p.m., in response to its massive budget deficit.
Providence and Rhode Island government officials have chosen seven members to serve on a powerful commission designated to oversee the development of land made available by the relocation of Interstate 195. The commission will determine who will acquire and develop the land.
Mayor Angel Taveras will seek $9 million in total contributions from tax-exempt organizations — like the University — and will support legislation in the General Assembly requiring such institutions to pay 25 percent of the property taxes they would owe if they were for-profit, he announced ...
Two months after receiving an overwhelming vote of "no confidence," Rhode Island School of Design Provost Jessie Shefrin announced today she will step down when her contract expires June 30 to "take a well-deserved sabbatical," according to a statement from RISD President John Maeda. She has served ...
The Providence School Board voted last night to close five schools — Asa Messer Elementary School, Asa Messer Annex, Windmill Street Elementary School, Edmund W. Flynn Elementary School and West Broadway Elementary School. Samuel W. Bridgham Middle School will be reopened as an elementary school. ...
The state's political leaders call it a once-in-a-generation economic opportunity. Set to be completed at the end of 2012, the 10-year relocation of Route 195 has cleared 20 acres of prime real estate in Providence's Fox Point and Jewelry District, some of which Brown is eyeing for further expansion. ...
The first case involving Rhode Island's indoor human trafficking law was settled this month in Rhode Island Superior Court.
As with the classic question of the chicken or the egg, political leaders, students and educators are scratching their heads over which came first — brain drain or the lack of jobs in Rhode Island.
When Shannon Hernandez' husband began working in Massachusetts this year, she decided to stay in Providence with her daughter, who is currently enrolled in kindergarten at Mary E. Fogarty Elementary School in Lower South Providence. But with the latest blow to the city's public schools — this ...
Johnson and Wales University's new $42 million Cuisinart Center for Culinary Excellence was awarded LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council this month. The award is the second-highest environmental acknowledgment a building can receive.
A financial report released last week holds the administration of former Providence Mayor and current U.S. Rep. David Cicilline '83, D-R.I., responsible for the city's $110 million deficit for the next fiscal year.
Since February 2010, two high-profile campus accidents involving drunk driving have raised awareness of the issue at Brown. A hit-and-run two weeks ago that injured two students came just over a year after the Feb. 12, 2010 death of Avi Schaefer '13 after being struck by a car on Thayer St. Though drunk ...
Rhode Island Speaker of the House Gordon Fox, D-Providence, sent a letter to House representatives yesterday announcing his decision to support civil unions after what he deemed to be an unsuccessful attempt to pass gay marriage legislation.
At a hearing last night, the City Council Education Subcommittee presented its recommendations for negotiating a new Providence teachers' contract, the single biggest expense in the city budget and the most costly teacher contract in the state. The current contract is set to expire in August.
Rep. Larry Valencia, D-Charlestown, plans to introduce a bill this week that would roll back Bush-era tax cuts for Rhode Island's wealthy to rein in the state's projected $331 million budget deficit. The bill, which is still being drafted, proposes increasing income tax rates for married couples earning ...
In less than three months, Rhode Island's first compassion centers will open their doors to the thousands of patients seeking a state-regulated source of medical marijuana.
The school committees of Pawtucket and Woonsocket filed an amended petition to a lawsuit April 7 against the state for allegedly failing to provide the districts with adequate funds for education under its new funding formula.
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