Back in April, when news first broke that the swine flu had reached the United States, the panic headlines we were reading on the national news gave some of us in the newsroom a good chuckle. • … more

Passage of a law requiring binding arbitration to resolve teacher contract disputes would have devastating consequences for the City of East Providence and its taxpayers. East Providence provides the … more

Everyone knows by now that Arne Duncan, US Secretary of Education visited a North Kingstown school on Nov. 2. The Providence Journal posted a video clip of NEARI’s president Larry Purtill welcoming … more

Commissioner Gist recently notified every superintendent in Rhode Island to begin the hard work of abolishing the sole use of seniority to fill classroom vacancies (Providence Journal, “School … more

People everywhere have thought about how they define themselves. Often it is through their work or their philanthropic endeavors. Sometimes it is through their areas of expertise or even their … more