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![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] While Warwick Schools were able to meet all their bus route needs despite challenges with a national bus driver shortage, the ranks of RIDE bus drivers could be filled by non-union DATTCO workers, a move the RI AFL-CIO protests will undermine driver wages and benefits.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/buses-sawtooth-300x225.jpg)
PROVIDENCE, RI — As nationwide bus driver staffing shortages persist, union bus drivers, monitors and aides ask Rhode Island’s Department of Education (RIDE) to stop courting the largely non-union company […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed today announced a new $876,792 federal grant for the Rhode Island Department of Education – RIDE school modernization , preventing environmental health risks, […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Warwick Veterans Middle School, 2401 W Shore Rd, Warwick, RI, is the venue for the Warwick School Committee meetings.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Warwick-Veterans-Middle-School-140x140.jpg)
WARWICK, RI – The Warwick School Committee hired a new finance director and reviewed the district’s recent performance in The Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) report card scores for […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Warwick Public Schools Administration is located at 69 Draper Ave.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Warwick-Public_Schools-140x140.jpg)
WARWICK, RI – Plans to build two new high schools have won City Council support, moving Warwick Schools’ efforts toward winning voter support for the projects totaling $350 million. The […]
![[CREDIT: City of Warwick] The Warwick City Council approved putting a $350M bond for building two new high schools on the November ballot.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Warwick-City-Council-New-Schools-Bond-140x140.png)
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council unanimously approved support of Warwick Schools’ $350 million plan for construction of two new high schools during their Monday meeting. City Council President […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Warwick School Department](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Warwick-Public_Schools-140x140.jpg)
WARWICK, RI – The Warwick City Council will soon be voting on the fate of a $350 million project to replace the two Warwick high schools. The School Committee voted […]
WARWICK, RI — Superintendent Philip Thornton knows when the state wants Warwick Schools to return to in-person fall classes — he just doesn’t know how. Wednesday, the morning after Thornton […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] The RI State House. RIDOH warns COVID-19 masks are a must as spread is likely outside the home. Gov. Raimondo also announced new small business aid through a $10M loan program with Goldman Sachs.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/RI-State-House-3-140x140.jpg)
PROVIDENCE — On Wednesday, Gov. Gina M. Raimondo announced all school districts are aiming to return to in-person classes Aug. 31, using a statewide 2020-2021 calendar for all public school […]
![[CREDIT: NIAID RML] This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses their name.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CORVID-19-140x140.jpg)
PROVIDENCE — RI Commissioner of Education Angélica M. Infante-Green has ordered RI school districts to develop remote-learning instruction plans, due March 19. Infante-Green instructed school districts to submit the plans […]
STATE HOUSE — Rep. Joseph M. McNamara (D-Dist. 19, Warwick, Cranston), chairman of the House Committee on Health, Education and Welfare, wants the Department of Education to establish remote learning […]
PROVIDENCE — Rep. Joseph M. McNamara’s (D-Dist. 19, Warwick, Cranston) bill would make it easier for school districts to raise money for field trips and dances, which may help restore […]
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Warwick provided youths relief from the week’s extreme heat Tuesday in the organization’s air-conditioned Oakland Beach facility, where there’s also respite from hunger and idle summer days, thanks to RI Department of Education and Champlin Foundation funds, along with a $25k grant for Warwick family scholarships.
Districts state wide show room for improvement on the 2015 PARCC score test of Common Core readiness, with Warwick behind state averages in Geography, Algebra 1, and ELA/Literacy.
