Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Thomas Brady, the incoming Superintendent of Providence Public Schools, is holding a series of public forums as he arrives in Providence. The first of these will especially interest east siders, as it happens at
All sessions are from 6 to 8 p.m.
Wednesday, July 30
Hope High School
324 Hope Street
Wednesday, August 6
Springfield Middle School
152 Springfield [...]
Posted in East Side Education, Rhode Island Education on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On July 4th, the Pennsylvania state legislature enacted an education funding formula, which has now been signed by Governor Rendell. PA’s passage of a funding formula means that there is now only ONE state that does not have a funding formula. Can you guess which one? That’s right….it’s Rhode Island.
The formula uses the number of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Incoming Superintendent of Providence Schools, Thomas Brady, came to town yesterday. He visited with
teachers, students and administrators, according to a story in today’s ProJo. There’s even a video clip on the ProJo site.
Brady also offered an abbreviated version of his agenda: increase student achievement; make business operations more efficient; improve [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This month Vartan Gregorian Elementary School got a new principal, as reported in the ProJo. Here are a couple of excerpts, with a link to the full story, which gives quite a bit of detail on Mr. Grimsey.
New principal named at Gregorian Elementary
Thursday, July 3, 2008
By Linda Borg Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE — Colin Grimsey, an [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The City Council’s Finance Committee will be meeting this Wednesday, July 16 to vote on the City budget, including the schools budget.
A July 3rd ProJo article by Linda Borg sets out the situation:
Thanks to an unexpected infusion of $3.5 million in state aid, it looks like the Providence schools will not have to make draconian [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Below is Sam’s regular column on Education for July
The Teacher Quality Crisis
I have written before about the “bumping” problem (a policy that bases teacher layoffs on seniority alone) which every year costs Providence some of its best teachers to the detriment of our children, families and also other teachers who can be demoralized by the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I missed Sam’s June article, which is posted below.
A new commissioner
In my May column, I wrote about changes in the leadership of the Providence School Department. We recently learned that change is also coming to the leadership of the Rhode Island Department of Education (“RIDE”), as Commissioner Peter McWalters announced he will be leaving [...]
Posted in Nathan Bishop, Providence Schools on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In cases you missed it, below is an email sent to the ESPEC mailing list on July 8th
1. Nathan Bishop Renovation. Renovations to the Nathan Bishop building are well-underway. The most obvious evidence of progress has been the removal of the exterior staircases, but work goes on inside as well. Our latest information is that [...]
