Over two-thirds of Rhode Island’s 3-8 graders are not proficient in either math or English. In 2023, the Rhode Island Department of Education reported that only 33.1% of these students’ demonstrated proficiency in English learning arts, and 29.6% in math.
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The Tidewater Landing soccer stadium deal in Pawtucket has gotten significantly more expensive for Rhode Islanders to pay off. And in more subtle ways, the latest version of the deal also undermines financial protections for the state.
As school children, many of us were taught Emma Lazarus’s poem affixed to the Statue of Liberty. She wrote, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” This aspirational vision has not been America’s immigration policy f