At R.I.’s urban schools, graduation rates are rising, By Lynn Arditi, November 26, 2013, Providence Journal: “High school graduation rates in Rhode Island’s poorest cities improved at more than twice the rate of the rest of the state during the last five years, according to a report released Monday by Rhode Island KidsCount. But among those urban students, about 34 percent — or one in three, on average — still are not graduating on time, the report said. The graduation rate in Central Falls, Pawtucket, Providence and Woonsocket increased 10 percent since 2007, to 66 percent in 2012, the KidsCount report found. In the rest of the state, the graduation rate during the same five-year period rose 4 percent, to 83 percent in 2012…”
Tag: Rhode Island
Kids Count Report – Rhode Island
- More RI kids poor, homeless; obesity falls, By Erika Niedowski (AP), April 8, 2013, Boston Globe: “An increasing number of children in Rhode Island are poor and experience homelessness but child well-being has improved in other areas, with the obesity rate hitting a 10-year low and juvenile delinquency down, according to a report released Monday. Twenty-two percent of children in the state were living in poverty in 2011, up from 19 percent the year before, the survey from the children’s policy organization Kids Count said. The number of children staying at homeless shelters climbed to 1,277 last year, from 1,092 in 2011 — an increase of 17 percent…”
- Armed with facts, officials ready to fight for kids, By Jennifer Rodrigues, April 9, 2013, Warwick Beacon: “All four members of Rhode Island’s Congressional Delegation, Senate President Teresa Paiva-Weed, Warwick Representative Joseph McNamara and Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian spoke of the importance of the 19th annual Rhode Island KIDS COUNT Factbook, which was released yesterday during an annual policy breakfast. The annual report, which charts improvements and declines in the well-being of children and youth across the state and in each of Rhode Island’s 39 cities and towns, provides data on 68 different aspects of life in five categories: family and community, economic well-being, health, safety and education…”
Homeless Bill of Rights – Rhode Island
Activists aim to bolster Rhode Island’s homeless bill of rights, By Jake Grovum, November 12, 2012, Stateline: “Just two miles separate the Rhode Island State House from Amos House, a soup kitchen and service center that’s helped hundreds of thousands since opening in 1976. But it feels farther. Amos House sits amid a maze of narrow streets lined with subsidized housing and empty storefronts, past a string of convenience and liquor stores where homeless Rhode Islanders frequently gather. It’s near one of Providence’s ubiquitous homeless shelters – Crossroads – where battered women seek refuge and drug dealers often congregate outside. Advocates were looking to close the gap between Rhode Island’s homeless and the rest of the state’s citizenry when they convinced state lawmakers to approve the nation’s first Homeless Bill of Rights this past summer..”