RICHMOND — A 3% rise in the number of homeschool students in the Chariho Regional School District sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic has remained steadily higher over the past three
Growing up in Charlestown, Rhode Island, Chrystal Baker remembers reading a textbook in history class that said the Narragansett Indigenous people, who have lived in southern New England for tens of thousands of years, were extinct. “We’re not extinct,” the young student ventured, nervous about contradicting the lesson, but feeling she had to speak up. […]