Tags : Program will send 60 public school teachers back to college for intensive English as a Second Language Instruction training

PROVIDENCE, RI – Thursday at 4:45 p.m. in the RISD Museum Grand Gallery in Providence, state and local education officials and the Rhode Island Foundation will announce a $480,000 initiative to tackle the “achievement gap” for students who are English Learners. Statewide, only 9 percent of English Learners met expectations in reading and writing, compared […]readmore