In June 2011, Langevin and the state Department of Education held a summit to find ways to bolster Rhode Island’s economy by preparing students for skilled jobs.

“Teachers at the Calcutt Middle School in Central Falls say they have been ordered to graduate students who fail up to 75 percent of their core classes.”

“Flexibility” is the new “you don’t have to if you don’t want to.”

“Superintendent Robert McIntyre said the pilot program would allow 10 students from outside Barrington to attend by paying the per-pupil cost of about $12,800 a year. The 3,400-student school district is considered one of the state’s top-performing.”

It’s gotta be a majority, right? Given that Chafee thinks he’s in charge down there.

Brown University, Roger Williams University and the University of Rhode Island were included on The Princeton Review’s third annual “Guide to 322 Green Colleges.”

> A bus carrying children from a field trip to Newport crashed through a guardrail and into tree on Route 4 around 3:10 p.m. Monday, injuring the 26 children and and six adults on board, state police say.

In the two years since Rhode Island embraced a federal program to improve 13 of its weakest schools, two pressing problems have emerged — a dearth of school leaders experienced with turning around chronically struggling schools and a lack of federal money to pay for the local efforts.

“After months of negotiations, Rhode Island lawmakers and Neumont University executives could not come to an agreement, and the Utah-based for-profit college has decided to discontinue its effort to open a Providence campus.”