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Though neither senator is up for reelection for three more years, both reported raising more than $1 million from July through September.

State Senator Ryan Pearson Senator Ryan Pearson, Chair of the Rhode Island Senate Finance Committee, has again proposed legislation targeting public charter schools -- legislation that he says will benefit students and families and an overwhelming number of critics say the bill is anti-students, and anti-high performance. Pearson has come under criticism for his repeated efforts to block and cut public charter schools. Pearson who proclaims to be the leading expert on public education admitted to GoLocal in an interview in January that he had actually never visited a public school in Providen...

Photo: File Frustrated by a lack of action from the Rhode Island General Assembly on addressing Rhode Island’s broken education system combined with efforts to stop the growth of high-performing charter schools, parents from across the state have come together to form a parent advocacy group – Stop The Wait RI – to ensure their voices are heard at the General Assembly. State Senator Maryellen Goodwin (District 1) has pushed legislation through the Senate the retroactively blocks more than 5,500 new charter school seats intended for primarily poor and urban school children. The legislati...