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Providence College and Smith Hill: Town and Gown Intersect
On the evening of Wednesday April 3, around 40 people gathered at the Smith Hill Library on Candace Street in Providence for the second Providence College & Smith Hill Dialogue Series. The topic, economic development. Specifically, “how can Providence College and the community collaborate on [...]
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May
May
Palaces for the People’s Children? A Very Short History of Providence Public Schools
The Providence Eye is inaugurating a series on the origins of the names of Providence schools, primarily, but not exclusively, the public schools. Everyone knows who Martin Luther King Jr. was, and ditto for Roger Williams. But who was Nathan Bishop? Who was George J. [...]
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May
May
Public Broadcasting Merger Should Inspire Competition and Innovation Across the Entire Media Market
People across Providence and throughout Rhode Island expect to be two or three Kevin Bacons removed from their elected officials or the prominent business, civic, and nonprofit leaders who shape public conversations. In a state of just a bit more than one million people, it’s [...]
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May
May
Community Reinvestment Act: Back to the Movement
Recently on multiple Sunday afternoons, WGBH Channel 2 has been reintroducing the classic Civil Rights series, “Eyes on the Prize”, and one of the last episodes was entitled ” “Back to the Movement”. It focused on the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and has particular resonance [...]
15
May
May
Are Providence Schools Better Off After Five Years of State Management?
On November 1, 2019, RI Department of Education (RIDE) used the authority granted in the 2006 Crowley Act, to take sole control over the Providence Public School Department (PPSD) and its 41 schools. Today, five eventful years later, can we say that our schools are [...]
08
May
May
Centennial Celebration Coming
A hundred years ago, in May 1924, a library opened in Providence, designed and constructed with no expense spared. Knight Memorial Library was situated on the large Knight urban estate, in a neighborhood of spacious Victorian homes and carriage houses, on Elmwood Avenue. This Saturday, [...]
08
May
May
What’s Up with the Downtown Transit Hub?
A crucial meeting presenting options for the transit hub in Providence will be held at the Amica Mutual Pavilion, “The Dunk”, on May 13, 4-7pm. The purpose is to obtain community feedback related to RIPTA’s plan to develop a new transit center that would replace [...]
01
May
May
Providence Leads in Community Built Art Projects
The Community Built Association (CBA) brings its unique approach to art and community engagement to Providence for the first time at their 2024 conference, “Imagining Collective Futures: Coast to Coast.” CBA is a non-profit organization that supports the professionals who engage the community to transform [...]
01
May
May
PPSD Cuts Language Classes Affecting Growing Multilingual Learner Population
According to the Providence Schools website, 40% of the district’s students are multilingual learners. This means that almost half of the district’s students speak a language other than English as their first language. According to Debra Jared in the Oxford Handbook of Reading (Oxford University [...]
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Apr
Apr
Lawsuit filed against PVD Public Schools and RIDE to protect multilingual learners from 360 High School closing
“This school is very special for our family and it is worth fighting for,” said Maria Pirir, the mother of a 360 High School student. “I am standing up for the children.” From a Rhode Island Center for Justice press release: A lawsuit has been [...]
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Apr
Apr
