Remember when the teachers in Central Falls, Rhode Island refused to make minimal changes in order to save their highly-paid, cushy jobs (which were apparently to fail to teach kids how to do things like read and write) until they got firedWell, the whole city is now "fired" thanks to similar circumstances with the rest of the unionized city ( Read more... )

A boy makes a hat with plastic soldiers on it and the school claims he has violated their "no weapons" policy.
David was assigned to make a hat last week for a project at the Tiogue School in Coventry. He chose a patriotic theme and glued plastic Army figures to a camouflage baseball cap. But school officials said the hat ran afoul of their no- ( Read more... )

Not many details but apparently the union has caved and agreed to the (quite reasonable, IMO) requirements that they work a few extra hours in an attempt to improve the dismal test scores of the district.
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. - A school district that gained the support of President Barack Obama for promoting accountability after it fired all its ( Read more... )

Great news! The Board of Trustees for Central High School has approved the plan to fire all the teachers following their rejection of an improvement plan.
The vote came after weeks of debate on how school Superintendent Frances Gallo believed the school, one of the poorest performing in the state, could be improved ( Read more... )