The Henry Barnard School at Rhode Island College has been saved
A group of parents have worked together to take the school private, make it independent, and keep it on the RIC campus
Updated December 21, 2020, 9:51 a.m.
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Dec 21, 2020
(Providence, RI) The Rhode Island General Assembly has passed a budget for the 2021 fiscal year. The budget, which goes to Governor Raimondo s desk, memorializes the planned use of one-point-two-five-billion dollars in federal coronavirus relief funds which are coming up on a December 30th deadline to use, according to a State House press release. It includes over a half-dozen bond referendums that will be put before voters in a special election, totaling four-hundred-million dollars.
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PROVIDENCE Gov. Gina Raimondo has signed the newly approved $12.7-billion state government budget for the fiscal year that began on July 1.
After a hiatus of months, the House and the Senate met last week to approve the biggest spending bill the state has ever seen to pay for both first-of-their kind pandemic expenses and the routine, day-to-day operation of state government.
A big chunk of the new spending relies on one-time federal coronavirus relief dollars used, in part, to increase housing, rental and eviction relief assistance and provide what the lawmakers described as extra payments to those who are affected by the current “pause” instituted to contain the spread of the virus.
Governor Gina Raimondo
An old saying (often attributed to Albert Einstein) is that a definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It seems that Governor Raimondo is repeating something that has been proven to fail by not only cancelling the ‘Pause’ too soon but easing pandemic containment measures before it is safe to do so.
On the day the Pause started, Rhode Island’s rate of new infections was 82.9/100,000/day. Just a few days later, by December 3rd it had soared to 113.3, earning the state the horrendous achievement of literally having the highest infection rate not only in the country but the entire world. This past Thursday when the Governor announced the end of the Pause, the infection rate had decreased to 108.5, the second highest in the country and the world, and 31% higher than the day the Pause started (yesterday it further decreased to 94.3, still 14% higher than at the start of the Pause).
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