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Wednesday, March 02, 2011
The executive director of an education reform group yesterday took Board of Regents nominee George Caruolo to task for saying that the state’s school system isn’t that bad in an interview earlier in the day.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Four alleged members of the La Cosa Nostra family in New England have been charged with racketeering, extortion, extortion conspiracy, and other related crimes in a superseding indictment unsealed in federal court today.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
If you’re wondering when the other shoe is going to drop on the closure of public schools in Providence, here it is, according to the Mayor’s office.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
What’s the difference between terminating and laying off all the teachers in the district?
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Renowned author and historian Gordon Wood, professor emeritus of history at Brown, has been named a winner of the 2010 National Humanities Medal. The medals, honoring achievements in history, literature, education, and cultural policy, will be presented by President Barack Obama during a White House ceremony on Wednesday, March 2.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Anne Nolan, President of Crossroads Rhode Island, delivered sobering statistics on women, families, and homelessness this afternoon. "We are seeing the pace of homelessness for women and families in Rhode Island growing at an alarming rate," she said. "In a ten year period, the total number of unaccompanied men [in shelters] rose by 5% while the total number of unaccompanied women rose by 65%."
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
The leader of the state AFL-CIO today pledged support for the Providence Teachers Union, which is holding a rally tomorrow afternoon to protest the mass firings of all teachers in the district.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Dr. David Gifford, the recently departed director of the Rhode Island Department of Health, has take a position with the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living, the group announced today.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
The City of Providence will in all likelihood get the financial concessions it needs from the Providence Teachers Union—even if it loses a legal battle over whether the mass firing of all the teachers violated state labor laws, according to experts who spoke with GoLocalProv yesterday.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
The new politics of fiscal probity took an ugly turn in Wisconsin last week, where newly elected Governor Scott Walker moved from driving a hard bargain to doing away with collective bargaining.
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