“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.”

Four Rhode Island school districts have been singled out for having “suspicious test scores” in a national investigation by the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Rhode Island: Just below average. Not as dumb as New Hampshire.

“…zero-sum arithmetic simply does not belong in discussions of public education…”

“Rhode Island students are significantly behind the national average when it comes to taking Advanced Placement (AP) exams, and near the bottom of the country when it comes to passing them. In the class of 2010, only 17.9 percent of Ocean State students took an AP exam (compared with 28.3 percent nationally) and just 10.9 passed (compared with 16.9 percent nationally), according to a report issued by the College Board.” We probably should just fire all the teachers again. They apparently didn’t get the message last time.