How PPSD is responding to potential immigration enforcement in local schools
By Joy Chen | March 12The guidelines aim to calm fears prompted by the dismantling of protections against ICE enforcement.
The guidelines aim to calm fears prompted by the dismantling of protections against ICE enforcement.
Some programs across the country were temporarily prevented from accessing their federal funding.
Thirty high school students in the Providence Public School District just completed the inaugural semester of the Brown Collegiate Scholars Program: a four-year program that prepares PPSD students to apply to selective colleges.
Community members expressed concerns at the prospect of federal funding being removed from the PPSD.
On Monday, state leaders shared that the Providence Public School District could return to local control by summer 2026. Gov. Dan McKee and leaders from the Rhode Island Department of Education, PPSD and Rhode Island Board of Education announced the timeline alongside a list of goals for the city to ...
Providence School Board members were sworn in during a historic ceremony that followed Thursday night’s city council meeting. The event cemented the results of the school board election in November 2024 — the first Providence School Board election held since the 1960s. Before November’s election, ...
Student Julianna Espinal said that the PPSD was progressing, but slowly: “it’s moving an inch and we should really be moving a mile.”
Growing concerns over a statewide mental health crisis among school-age youth has led the Rhode Island Department of Education to launch a new student mental health support program, state officials announced last month.
Discombobulated chairs displayed on the walls of a converted church, abstract contraptions made from upcycled wood and the energetic chatter of passionate artists, designers and community members — this was the atmosphere of the Repair Atelier during the Rhode Island School of Design’s Reharvest-Repair’s ...