Posted in Providence Schools on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: The meeting start time has been moved back to 6:00 p.m.
City Council’s Education Committee
Monday, May 5th
5:30 6:00pm
City Hall, 3rd Floor
School Board members and Providence Public School officers will present information and answer questions about next year’s budget. If you missed last week’s presentation at Central High School, this is a good opportunity [...]
Posted in East Side Education, Providence Schools on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Jill Davidson, Dr. M.L. King Jr. Elementary School PTO President and ESPEC Steering Committee member, has sent word that King’s principal, Michael Lazzareschi, has been named Rhode Island Elementary Principal of the Year by the Rhode Island Association of School Principals.
Congratulations Mr. Lazzareschi!
The King PTO will have a celebration as part of its May 21 [...]
Posted in Providence Schools on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I attended the Providence School Board’s budget presentation, about which subscribers to the ESPEC email list were informed in an email. Mark Dunham, the PPSD chief financial officer gave a formal presentation of the budget figures. This was followed by a Q&A session, with questions coming first from School Board members, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
As readers here know, Sam Zurier, a member of the ESPEC Steering Committee (who drafted the anti-bumping legislation discussed in the ProJo story below) writes an education column for the East Side Monthly. Appropriately, this month’s column is on bumping:
Solving the Bumping Problem
By Sam Zurier
After taking over a community meeting for East Side elected [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Note: It’s been a busy week and I’ve not posted much. Ironically, the things I should be posting about are the things that have kept me from posting. Today is catch-up, beginning with a Wednesday 4/2 ProJo article about “anti-bumping” legislation that got a hearing that afternoon. I’ll follow up with [...]
