“This new board has a deeply important job ahead: ushering in a successful return to local control and meaningfully improving student outcomes,” Council President Rachel Miller said in a statement.

PROVIDENCE – Most Providence students in this year’s graduating high school class weren't even teenagers in 2019 when the state took over the city’s public school system. Some of them feel like they ...

Providence leaders are still making their case to take back control of the state-run school district this year.

The Providence City Council approved new school board members this week For the first time, half of the board was elected PROVIDENCE – The city's School Board is ready to commence a new session ...

The Rhode Island Department of Education outlined parameters for Providence to regain local control of its schools, potentially as early as 2026. The state's willingness to transition control back ...

The new half-elected, half-appointed school board is poised to elect a president. Mayor Brett Smiley has said he would like ...

“We are comfortable accelerating that timeline,” McKee told reporters Monday inside Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School on the East Side of Providence. The state is looking at summer 2026 ...

State leaders plan to detail how the state-run Providence Public School District will eventually return back to local control.

(WJAR) — Rhode Island leaders will discuss on Monday the path to local control for Providence Public Schools. Governor Dan McKee, Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green, and Providence ...

Providence School Board members were sworn in during a historic ceremony that followed Thursday night’s city council meeting. The event cemented the results of the school board election in November ...

On Monday, state leaders shared that the Providence Public School District could return to local control by summer 2026. Gov. Dan McKee and leaders from the Rhode Island Department of Education, PPSD ...