A Providence man has been charged with murder in a decades-old cold case, stemming from the strangling death of Kathleen O’Dowd Boleman in 1999, Providence Police announced on Thursday.
Report: Black students are âdisproportionately representedâ in Providence arrest data
The Center for Youth and Community Leadership in Education at Roger Williams University is calling for the removal of school resource officers
By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated December 17, 2020, 8:05 a.m.
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The report by the Center for Youth and Community Leadership in Education (CYCLE) at Roger Williams University found that 8 percent of arrests were of students at Roger Williams Middle School in Providence.Ryan Conaty/The Boston Globe
PROVIDENCE â Black students accounted for 30 percent of all arrests in Providence schools between the 2016-17 school year and the 2019-20 school year, even though they made up just 16 percent of the student population, according to a report released Wednesday by the Center for Youth and Community Leadership in Education (CYCLE) at Roger Williams University.