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An opinion piece written by two Rhode Island State Senators Sandra Cano and Ana Quezada was sent out by the press office at the Rhode Island General Assembly on Thursday to try and justify their efforts to cancel over 5,500 seats at charter schools for this coming year and block future charter school expansion.
The title of the column is “Charter school expansion would leave most children behind” – you can read their claims below, but what we did was pull a few of their points and offer some reality to their specious claims.
Cano and Quezada: The moratorium on charter school expansion recently approved by the Rhode Island Senate is neither anti-education nor anti-charter school. Rather, it is about saving traditional public schools, thereby ensuring every child in our state has a fighting chance at a quality education before it’s too late.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST
New York System Weiners, 424 Smith Street. PHOTO: Will Morgan
Such a potential grand boulevard offers a colorful mosaic of churches, restaurants, bars, ethnic groceries, stores, fast food joints, and bodegas. Not least of all is the nearly century-old New York System Weiners with its fabulous neon moniker.
Smith Hill is as close to the State House as is College Hill, yet it has some positive elements that need reinforcing. It definitely could use an infusion of capital and commitment. But let s start with the west end of this half mile of history.
The junction of Chalkstone Avenue and Smith Street is most in need of some kind of inspired urban intervention. Right now is just a wide, dangerous intersection.
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