BREAKING NEWS: Four More Failing Schools in Providence
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The Rhode Island Department of Education announced this morning that four more Providence schools and one statewide school had been added to the list of the persistently lowest achieving schools in the state.
The schools are:
■ Dr. Jorge Alvarez High School
■ Hope Information Technology School
■ Mary E. Fogarty Elementary School
■ Mount Pleasant High School
■ Rhode Island School for the Deaf
The School for the Deaf is located in Providence, but it is a state-run school.
Those schools are in addition to four other Providence schools the state identified last year:
■ The B. Jae Clanton Complex (Charlotte Woods and Sergeant Cornel Young, Jr., Elementary Schools)
■ The Juanita Sanchez Complex: Providence Academy of International Studies and William B. Cooley Health Science Technology High School)
■ Lillian Feinstein Elementary School at Sackett Street
■ Roger Williams Middle School
The Rhode Island Department of Education also announced school reform plans for those four schools. The plans were published online on the Providence School District's Web site. Education Commissioner Deborah Gist today said she is steering $600,000 in federal funds towards the school district to ensure the success of those reform plans.
“It is important to credit teachers and students for the progress some schools are making. But it is unacceptable for any school in Providence to be persistently low-achieving,” said Providence Mayor Angel Taveras. “Our children need and deserve an education that will enable them to reach their full potential.”
He added: “School administration and union leadership must work together to accelerate the implementation of newly approved transformation plans at schools previously identified by RIDE as low-achieving and quickly develop intervention plans for the new set of identified schools.”
“The awarding of School Improvement Grants is an important step in redesigning the approaches taken to turning around schools that have struggled for many years,” Gist said. “I am confident that, through collaborative and focused efforts, the Providence schools and the Providence Teachers Union can bring this plan to fruition.”
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