As part of the nationwide phase-in of the Every Student Succeeds Act, Rhode Island implemented a star rating system for its schools last year to help provide “a more holistic evaluation of individual schools than simply looking at test scores.” According to the ratings released...
Angélica Infante-Green has been nominated to serve as Rhode Island’s next education commissioner, reports Dan McGowen for the WPRI Eye Witness News. Although McGowan notes that Infante-Green “comes to Rhode Island at a time when test scores are lagging and achievement gaps are wide,” he...
Taylor Swaak reports in The 74 on how Rhode Island is “tackling teacher chronic absenteeism by incorporating it into its ESSA plan as a measure of school accountability.” This “means the state will consider teacher absenteeism rates when gauging schools’ success and identifying low-performing schools.”
Linda Borg reports for the Providence Journal that U.S. Secretary of Education DeVos has approved Rhode Island’s ESSA plan. DeVos praised several aspects of the plan, including the state’s “emphasis on challenging coursework such as dual enrollment, giving students credit for dual language literacy, and...
Fostering Media Connections President and The Chronicle of Social Change Publisher Daniel Heimpel discusses how Rhode Island is one of at least 10 states that have either “outright failed or are struggling in their implementation of ESSA’s foster care transportation provision.” And although many states say they have taken appropriate steps...
Education Week’s Daarel Burnette II takes a look at Rhode Island’s granular approach to collecting per-school spending data, noting that “depending on which school a student attends in this tiny state, spending per pupil could be as little as $9,000, or as much as $45,000.”...
Rhode Island’s ESSA plan “earned high marks from an independent review that has otherwise criticized states for lacking critical details,” writes education reporter Jessica R. Towhey. “The review from Bellwether Education Partners awarded Rhode Island its top mark—5 of out 5—in the category of Supporting...
Approved State Plans Alabama: Final Plan Approved (5/7/18) Alaska: Final Plan Approved (5/16/18) Arizona: Final Plan Approved (9/6/17) Arkansas: Final Plan Approved (1/16/18) Colorado: Final Plan Approved (5/7/18) Connecticut: Final Plan Approved (8/15/17) Delaware: Final Plan Approved (8/2/17) District of Columbia: Final Plan Approved (8/28/17) Georgia:...
Rhode Island Department of Education is seeking feedback on state’s draft ESSA plan.
In an interview with the Providence Journal, Mary Ann Snider, the Rhode Island Department of Education’s deputy commissioner for teaching and learning, discussed how ESSA brings back local control. Regarding state interventions in low-performing schools, “We don’t have a lot of evidence that a state...
