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The Rhode Island Federation of Teachers and Health Professionals is considered one of the most active political groups in Rhode Island. [17] It sued to oppose the shut-down of the Rhode Island state government during a budget crisis in 1991, [18] fought to keep full-time union leaders (who were former public employees) in the state pension system, [19] [20] worked to enact strong constraints ...
Cornell University was among higher education institutions that began offering university-based continuing education, primarily to teachers, through extension courses in the 1870s. As noted in the Cornell Era of February 16, 1877, the university offered a "Tour of the Great Lakes" program for "teachers and others" under the direction of ...
Continuing education or professional development is required in many fields, including teachers, insurance professionals, interior designers/interior architects, lighting designers, architects, engineers, emergency management professionals, school administrators, educators, nurses as well as those in the mental health professionals including ...
The teacher shortage in Rhode Island requires immediate and effective solutions. I urge policymakers and educational leaders to reconsider the certification process and make it more inclusive and ...
A 17-member Rhode Island Board of Education was created by the Rhode Island General Assembly in 2014, replacing the Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education and the Board of Governors for Higher Education. This consolidated governance of all public education in Rhode Island aims to provide aligned policy making and planning for ...
In 2010, he was named Rhode Island commissioner for higher education and became interim education commissioner in 2013 when the boards overseeing colleges and K-12 schools were merged.
While the state's pension actuaries have pegged the average pension paid a retired Rhode Island public school teacher at $43,343, Serpa says the ones she hears from do not, in many cases, have ...
History of Education Quarterly 43.3 (2003): 350-371. online. Seitsinger, Anne M., et al. "State of Education in Rhode Island" (Providence: The National Center on Public Education and Social Policy, 2001). online; Stockwell, Thomas B. A history of public education in Rhode Island: From 1636 to 1876 (1876) online. Tolman. William Howe.