uri.edu: URI trustee and alumnus Joseph Matthews has donated $1.6 million to establish an endowment supporting engineering students who transfer from the Community College of Rhode Island, with two annual scholarships covering up to two years of in state tuition.
wgbh.org: Parents at the Croft School, a private for profit school with campuses in Boston and Providence serving roughly 590 students, are organizing to keep it open after its founder was suspended over allegations of hiding $13 million in debt and running a Ponzi scheme using parent investments.
readlion.com: An education advocate warns that Rhode Island is at a crossroads on school choice, citing overcrowded charter school waitlists, union resistance to reform, and a proposed moratorium bill opposed by more than 600 parents who packed the State House to testify against it.
rhodeislandcurrent.com: Education columnist Julia Steiny warns that Rhode Island faces a choice between embracing school choice or allowing district enrollment to keep declining, as a bill backed by union aligned lawmakers seeks to block new charter school approvals despite more than 30,000 annual applications for fewer than 3,200 available seats.
heraldnews.com: Portuguese language teachers from Massachusetts and Rhode Island gathered to share classroom strategies and explore how AI tools can support student learning and engagement in heritage language education.
patch.com: Rhode Island lawmakers have sponsored legislation to provide free breakfast and lunch to all public school students regardless of family income, rolling out in three phases starting with elementary schools in the 2027 to 2028 school year.
The Providence City Council formed a time-limited working group to prepare for its budget and oversight responsibilities when PPSD returns to local control. The group will receive briefings from finance professionals and governance experts, and aims to deliver a findings report by June 5, 2026.
A new NWEA analysis finds that children who were infants during COVID are now falling below pre-pandemic benchmarks in reading and math as they reach first and second grade. Kindergarten scores held steady, but reading gaps among early elementary students remain stubbornly stalled.
Antisemitic symbols and messages were found at three East Greenwich schools this week, weeks after a racist graffiti incident at a fourth school in the district. Superintendent Thomas Kenworthy is working with law enforcement and plans age-appropriate community education in response.
Former Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says harm done to the Department of Education over the past year will take decades to repair, citing the closure of seven civil rights enforcement offices and threats to Title III language acquisition grants for multilingual learners.
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