Rhode Island Tag

Westerly (RI) School Committee Unanimously Rejects State Transgender Guidance Excluding Parents From “Social Transitioning”

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 22, 2024 8 Comments

Parents' rights activist Robert Chiaradio says Westerly is the first and only district in the state to commit to replacing state guidance with its own locally crafted policy. "With this decision," he says, "I believe that the dominoes will start to fall across the state."...

Parents Testify In Opposition to Proposed Law Advancing DEI Ideology In Rhode Island Public Schools

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 14, 2024 15 Comments

Rhode Island mother: "We don't need more DEI, we need it out of the schools."...

Rhode Island Lawmakers Consider Law to Advance DEI Ideology In Public Schools

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 11, 2024 14 Comments

RI H7722 requires the department of education to develop DEI materials for public school curricula. But it's up to local school committees, which will be under enormous pressure to adopt this state policy....

Parents Push Back Against Making Rhode Island A Sanctuary State for Childhood Trans Surgeries And Pharmaceuticals

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 08, 2024 17 Comments

Nicole Solas , Bob Chiaradio, Ramona Bessinger, and others testify in RI Senate hearing against the “Healthcare Provider Shield Act” which would insulate Rhode Island doctors and their patients from civil and criminal complaints filed in other states....

Sheldon Whitehouse Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Legislation That Allegedly Benefited His Wife’s Environmental Group

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 07, 2024 5 Comments

“Senator Whitehouse seems to have stepped over the line of standard environmental legislative advocacy and used his Senate office to advance his and his wife’s personal and financial interests”...

Proposed Law Would Make Rhode Island Sanctuary State For Abortion and “Gender-Affirming Care”

Posted by Jane Coleman on February 20, 2024 27 Comments

Taken altogether, if passed, the new law will essentially make abortion and transgender healthcare providers an untouchable class of defendants when sued from another state....

DHS Is Training Teachers To Develop Student ‘Disinformation’ Informers – I Know, I Took The Training

Posted by Ramona Bessinger on February 19, 2024 68 Comments

I'm a Providence, Rhode Island, high school teacher. You may remember me from when I blew the whistle in July 2021 on how a new Critical Race Curriculum was creating racial hostility in the Middle School where I taught at the time, and the subsequent retaliation and harassment. I'm blowing the whistle again, this time as to Department of Homeland Security funding for training of teachers on combatting so-called "disinformation" as part of supposed "media literacy" programming through the University of Rhode Island, called Courageous RI. The training is not what it purports to be. It's all about training teachers to teach students to become "disinformation" informers. I know. I took the training.

Report: Illegal Alien Arrested In RI On Child Molestation Charges

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on February 18, 2024 24 Comments

"He illegally came into our country in 2023, was arrested for child s*x crimes and was released a month later by RI authorities despite ICE requesting to detain him."...

Police Investigate Violent Anti-Semitic Threats Sent to Brown/RISD Hillel

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 13, 2024 1 Comment

“Special security detail is now in place at our building and will remain in place over the coming days”...

Brown University President Refuses Demands of Students Staging Hunger Strike for Palestine

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 06, 2024 61 Comments

"The Brown Corporation must heed these calls and promote an immediate ceasefire and a lasting peace by divesting its endowment from companies that enable and profit from the genocide in Gaza and broader Israeli occupation."...

Dept. of Education Investigating Brown U. for Alleged Discrimination Against Jewish Students

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 11, 2024 10 Comments

"investigating a complaint alleging discrimination on the basis of national origin in regard to 'incidents of harassment' in Fall 2023"...

Anti-Israel Student Mob Shouts Down Speech by Brown University President

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 01, 2023 19 Comments

"Paxson was eventually booed off the stage as students chanted 'shame on you' and demanded the university divest its endowment from companies that are profiting off the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas."...

Providence Police Arrest 18 People During Anti-Israel Protest at Brown University

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 09, 2023 3 Comments

“Divestment from companies profiting from ongoing violence in Gaza is a material way for Brown University to promote an immediate ceasefire and a lasting peace”...

SCOTUS Affirmative Action Fallout: RI-Based Charity Halts Race-Based Grant Making

Posted by James Nault on October 27, 2023 9 Comments

In response to inquiry from the Equal Protection Project, the Papitto Opportunity Connection states "going forward, we will support initiatives that are designed to foster diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging but that do not condition eligibility on race, do not make decisions based on race,...

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