Chalkbeat: State Takeovers Are Usually Unsuccessful
Matt Barnum of Chalkbeat reports on a research study that concluded that most state takeovers of low-performing districts were unsuccessful. Local school boards, it was...
Category : Providence
Providence: State Takeover Stumbles As “Toe-Popping” Official and Superintendent Are Fired
When Gina Raimondo was Governor of Rhode Island (she is now Biden’s Secretary of Commerce), she determined that the only way to fix the Providence...
Rhode Island: Teachers Demand End to State Takeover of Providence Schools
Rhode Island is a mess. Two years ago, the state took control of the Providence public schools. The Governor, Gina Raymond, is a former hedge...
Rhode Island: Critics Object to Charter Expansion Plans
Under the leadership of Democratic Governor Gina Raimondo, Rhode Island is a very charter-friendly state. Raimondo was a venture capitalist before she entered politics. Her...
Providence: State Releases Plan to Make Schools High-Performing in Five Years
After Johns Hopkins University wrote a scathing critique of the Providence public schools, Governor Gina Raimondo and her new Commissioner of Education took control of...
Providence: New State Takeover Superintendent Rolls Out Initial Plans
Angelica Infante-Green, the Commissioner of Education in Rhode Island, selected Harrison Peters as the takeover superintendent of Providence. Peters announced his initial plans, which sound...
Rhode Island Will Close One of Its Oldest Charter Schools
Charter advocates like to caricature public schools negatively while presenting charter schools as invariably successful. We know neither portrait is accurate. Rhode Island’s new state...
Randi: Providence Takeover Demonizes Teachers, As Rhee and Klein Did
Randi Weingarten will be in Providence on Saturday to discuss the role of teachers in the state takeover engineered by neoliberal Governor Gina Raimondo. The...
Tom Ultican: The Takeover of Providence Public Schools
Tom Ultican, retired teacher of physics and advanced mathematics, is a specialist in the Destroy Public Education movement. In this post, he describes the effort...
Providence: First, Fire All the Teachers!
This is the most curious news story of the week, written by the GoLocalProv News Team.”* It says that the fate of the...