Site-based management

One of the arguments for charter schools is that they give more control over a school to those who run the school on a day to day basis. In Providence, this is already happening at some public schools. For instance, Vartan Gregorian uses a form of site-based management.
Fans of site-based management also point [...]

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Web pages and education resources

I’ve posted a link in the top banner to a page of links to education resources, local and national.  Please feel free to suggest links to add.

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School Report Cards

As noted in the ProJo last week, school NCLB reportcards have been released. I thought it might be useful to post links for the East Side elementary schools. Since a number of East Siders also attend Greene, I’ve included that school also.
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School
Vartan Gregorian Elementary School
Nathanael Greene Middle School  [...]

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Turned Away from Public Schools?

The items below appear as comments to an earlier post. They deserve a post of their own. They explain how some East Siders are missing out on good public schools.
Kim Rohm writes of our forum on K-8 vs middle school:
One of the most compellng moments of the evening for me was when a father [...]

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Open Post

Here’s a place to post comments that don’t directly address any of the main posts.  Just click on “comments” below.

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Bishop Committee Update

The Superintendent’s committee on Nathan Bishop met on Thursday, 9/21.  It will meet again on 10/5 and 10/19.  The committee is working toward a recommendation to the School Board for the configuration and programming for Bishop when it reopens.
At the 9/21 meeting, the subcommittee on grade configuration presented the results of its review of the [...]

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VIPS 1/2 Marathon

Volunteers in Providence Schools (VIPS) is organizing a 1/2 marathon for Nov. 4. There’s a relay feature, so two or three people can enter as a team and split the distance among them.
VIPS is a great organization through which volunteers help individual students learn. You can learn about VIPS and register for the [...]

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Upcoming forum on education

The Mayor is hosting an education reform forum on Oct. 13th, on the topics of accountability, fiscal management, civic capacity and labor relations. Click on the image below to get the full information (you may have to click it twice!)  or download the flyer from the City’s web site.  RSVP by Oct. 4.

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Wall Street Journal on Public vs. Private Schools

In a comment on another topic, Jill Davidson points us to an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal. The link to the full article is below, but here are some excerpts:
Across the country, some schools and education professionals report a growing movement from private to public. Among the possible reasons: Private-school tuition has [...]

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K-8 vs Middle School Panel

We had a great turnout tonight; I counted 90 people at our panel on K-8 and middle schools. We had more panelists than advertised: Maria Lopes, who is a K-8 principal in Boston, and Teacher Union President Steve Smith joined Superintendent Evans, Dr. Ken Fish, Dr. John Niska and Julia Steiny. They [...]

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21 schools still not making the grade

(I would have posted this earlier, but I am just back from a conference)
The August 29 ProJo reports that
Students in 21 elementary and middle schools in Rhode Island — including all Providence middle schools and 10 of the city’s 25 elementary schools — have failed to improve on English and math tests for multiple years. [...]

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