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Groups urge RIDE to adopt statewide policy for transgender students
Citing the unique discrimination faced by transgender and gender non-conforming students and the failure of many Rhode Island school districts to have policies in place tackling the issue, ten...
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Pawtucket ends lunch shaming, moves toward free food for all students
Pawtucket is employing a two-part strategy to changing its approach to school lunch. The first part was to stop lunch shaming. In April, RI Future flagged the Pawtucket School District as one of...
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Wagner on transgender policy: “You can’t force people to love”
Donald Anderson Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) Commissioner Ken Wagner seemed to miss Reverend Donald Anderson‘s point regarding the adoption of a state wide policy that would protect...
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Youth-led social justice activism in Rhode Island
Kafui Glover Student activists representing the Providence Student Union (PSU), Youth in Action and PrYSM (Providence Youth Student Movement) were invited to speak at Rhode Island College to speak...
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Pokanokets reach agreement with Brown University
Sagamore Po Wauipi Neimpaug On Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, Brown University and the present-day Pokanoket Tribe members encamped since Aug. 20, 2017, on property in Bristol, Rhode Island, signed an...
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The March for Racial Justice in Rhode Island
Ron Lewis and Justice Gaines Well over 400 people converged on India Point Park for the March for Racial Justice (M4RJ). Sister marches were held across the country. In Providence, the “march” was...
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Valerie Lawson to primary Daniel DaPonte in Senate District 14, East Providence
Valarie Lawson Valarie Lawson announced today that she is a candidate for Rhode Island Senate District 14, East Providence. She will be running against incumbent Daniel DaPonte, who has served in that...
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RIDE commits to statewide policy protecting transgender and gender...
Ken Wagner Education Commissioner Ken Wagner announced his commitment to require all school districts in the state to adopt comprehensive policies affirming the civil rights of transgender and gender...
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No more charter school lotteries, pick students at random
A Providence Journal editorial on Thursday, September 14, “Some schools lead the way” praises charter schools for outstanding performances on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and...
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Professor Kalwant Bhopal on race, education in US, UK
Professor Kalwant Bhopal Kalwant Bhopal is a visiting professor at Harvard University in the Graduate School of Education and deputy director of the Center for Research in Race & Education at the...
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RI seeks to boost school breakfast
Governor Gina Raimondo visits the Veazie Street Elementary School where students eat breakfast in class. Eating in the classroom once resulted in detention. At the Veazie Street School in Providence,...
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Parent complains about lunch shaming, but Aramark employee says it works
Aniece Germain, left, talks with three Cranston School Committee members and Aramark’s Tricia Wright, far right, about lunch shaming. Aniece Germain, mother of a kindergarten and a second grade student...
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Rhode Island public schools are pretty segregated
There’s at least one metric by which urban schools in Rhode Island equal their suburban and rural counterparts – racial segregation. People of color comprise 80 percent of the combined student bodies...
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Graduate workers at Brown dodge Trump’s labor board in historic agreement
Stand Up for Graduate Student Employees (SUGSE). Courtesy of their website. Graduate workers at Brown University announced a landmark agreement with the university Thursday afternoon, paving the way...
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Warwick wants to charge students for riding the bus, playing sports
In an effort to balance its budget, Warwick wants to charge students $1 to take the bus to and from school as well as a fee to participate in after school sports. But because these cost-cutting moves...
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Providence students tell their stories with their public art
Mayor Jorge Elorza cuts the ribbon on “What is Your Story,” a new piece of student-created public art in Trinity Square. A new piece of public art on the side of Empire Loan, at the corner of Broad and...
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Deya Garcia runs to advocate for a neglected neighborhood
Deya Garcia, a progressive Democratic candidate for Providence city council, Ward 8. Sitting in The Lunch Box, a Dominican restaurant on Park Avenue in Cranston, Democratic candidate for Providence...
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Raimondo’s pension cuts benefited hedge funds more than RI, says Brown
Matt Brown attacked Governor Raimondo’s previous cuts to the state employee pension plan at an event on Monday evening. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Matt Brown attacked pension cuts for state...
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Young Dems endorse Susan Donovan for Rep Gallison’s vacant seat
Susan Donovan YDRI is proud to announce our endorsement of Susan Donovan in the democratic primary for House District 69, Bristol/Portsmouth. While it is rare for YDRI to make an endorsement this...
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Rob Goldman to challenge Rep Diaz in District 11
Rob Goldman is running as a Democrat against incumbent Grace Diaz in District 11. He’s running on a platform of universal healthcare and a $15 minimum wage with a call for increased education spending....
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