Advocates of a funding formula for school districts across the state will be glad to know that the House Finance Committee is making headway. Following the State Department of Education’s first formal education funding proposal in February, combined with Rhode Island’s rejection for federal funds from Race to the Top in April, the need for […]
Managers of the Race to the Top, the federal funding program aimed to help out states with qualifying education plans, announced that Rhode Island will not be receiving funding after this first round. Applications were evaluated on a 500 point scale, Rhode Island received 419 points, and ranked eighth out of 16 finalists. Only two
On Sunday, alongside the passage of the health-care bill, House Democrats attached an amendment that aims to fund government lending to students by substantially decreasing federal subsides on private loans. The federal government has subsidized private student lending since 1965 and began lending directly to students in the 1990s. The movement to end the subsidies
A national panel, coordinated by the National Governors’ Association, has just proposed implementing a set of academic “Common Core State Standards” to be adopted by every state. Don Carcieri put out a press release praising the panel’s work and quoting Robert G. Flanders, Jr., Esq., Rhode Island’s Chairman of the Board of Regents for Elementary
[youtube]n9NmN08IzMs&feature=player_embeddedp[/youtube] U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, announced Rhode Island’s acceptance into the first round of the federal government’s Race to the Top grant pool. States accepted in this round will be interviewed and the final decision for the distribution of monetary allocations for education reform in the amount of $4 billion, will be announced