Warwick Set for Four-Day In-Person Secondary Classes
By: Joe Siegel on April 8, 2021 in COVID-19, Schools, Uncategorized
WARWICK, RI – Warwick Schools students will soon be returning to four-day in-person instruction at the secondary level as COVID-19 cases rise. On Tuesday, the School Committee approved the plan, […]
Warwick Schools Not Resuming Full-Week In-Person Classes
By: Joe Siegel on March 1, 2021 in Schools
WARWICK – Warwick Public Schools will not be returning to five days a week in-person instruction anytime soon due to scheduling and space required during the COVID-19 pandemic. Assistant Superintendent […]
Raimondo Pushes RI’s Faustian Bargain En Route to D.C.
By: Warwick Post Staff on February 2, 2021 in All Politics Are Local
How many needless COVID-19 infections, long-term disabilities and deaths resulting from in-person schooling are acceptable? We’re going with none. That’s not the route the Warwick School Committee chose. Nor is […]
Warwick Schools Go All-Distance Learning Dec. 14
By: Rob Borkowski on December 9, 2020 in COVID-19, Schools, Uncategorized
WARWICK, RI — At Tuesday’s School Committee Meeting, Superintendent Phil Thornton, concerned with climbing COVID-19 cases over the last weeks, said he’d consider today’s COVID-19 positive figure in Warwick —rising […]
Warwick Delays In-Person Schooling Till Jan. 4
By: Joe Siegel on December 1, 2020 in Schools
“We’ve had an incident of that going on where someone sent their child to school and now two people are very sick from it. It’s nerve-wracking for everybody.” — Judith […]
RI In on the Action as U.S. COVID-19 Cases Spike
By: Rob Borkowski on October 15, 2020 in COVID-19, Schools
PROVIDENCE, RI – National COVID-19 cases are on the rise, including in Rhode Island, where the Department of Health reports cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have been rising the last few […]
Committee Strives to Clear Air on In-Person Learning
By: Rob Borkowski on October 2, 2020 in COVID-19, Schools, Uncategorized
WARWICK, RI — Warwick’s School Committee spent its first hour in executive session Thursday night, returning at 6:45 p.m. with no votes to report, proceeding to discuss returning Warwick Schools […]
Warwick Kindergarten Plans In-Person Classes Oct. 6
By: Rob Borkowski on September 28, 2020 in COVID-19, News to You, Schools
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Public Schools will hold in-person kindergarten classes sooner than expected, Oct. 6, thanks to earlier than expected delivery of 60 HEPA filters to the district. Those […]
Most RI In-Person Learning Starts Sept. 14
By: Rob Borkowski on September 1, 2020 in COVID-19, Schools
PROVIDENCE, RI — On Monday, Gov. Gina M. Raimondo announced most Rhode Island public schools are clear to return to in-person learning Sept. 14, though not every district’s leadership is […]
Immunizations Fall Behind During COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Rob Borkowski on August 26, 2020 in COVID-19, News to You
PROVIDENCE, RI — While school and doctor office shutdowns have limited the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic, they’ve also led to fewer children getting routine immunizations, a mounting concern […]
School Committee Flips On In-Person Learning, 5-0
By: Joe Siegel on August 20, 2020 in Schools
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional information from last night’s meeting about the in-person plan. WARWICK, RI — Following Governor Gina Raimondo’s televised criticism over their Fall […]
Raimondo & Fauci’s Fallacies Undermine COVID-19 Leadership
By: Warwick Post Staff on August 17, 2020 in All Politics Are Local, COVID-19
Thursday, Gov. Gina M. Raimondo, after chastising the Warwick School Committee for choosing Fall distance learning, resorted to a logical fallacy, appeal to authority, during a talk with famed expert […]
Raimondo ‘Disappointed’ in Warwick Schools Distance Learning Vote
By: Rob Borkowski on August 13, 2020 in COVID-19, Schools
PROVIDENCE, RI — Gov. Gina M. Raimondo has delayed the start of school till Sept. 14, to give schools more time to prepare for in-person schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
Reed, Whitehouse Reject COVID-19 Education Aid Tied to In-Person Learning
By: Rob Borkowski on August 4, 2020 in COVID-19, Schools
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and 27 Senate colleagues are urging U.S. Senate leadership to reject the Trump Administration’s push conditioning […]