Controversial Behavior News Today

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Providence Schools Superintendent Harrison Peters. The Rhode Island Department of Education says that Commissioner Angélica Infante Green was “not aware” of now-former Providence schools official Olayinka Alege’s controversial past in Florida — prior to his hiring in Rhode Island.  Alege who was arrested this week for “forcibly rubbing a stranger’s foot” — and subsequently resigned — was known in Florida for “toe-popping” students as a form of punishment.  Peters had ...