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Are school reimbursement and new housing policies at odds?
 When it comes to state policies that affect everybody in Rhode Island, there are perhaps no two greater examples than the parameters set for reimbursing municipalities that seek to construct or … more
ON THE RANGE: Cranston Police Lt. Joshua Dygon held an “AR style” semiautomatic rifle tight against his shoulder last week and wore noise-cancelling headphones to protect his hearing. City officials are split on whether to relocate or enclose the range, which is located near two city schools.
Cranston city officials split over police gun range noise and its effects on nearby students
The gun range predates both of the nearby public schools. But the firing range also pre-dates the nation’s school shooting crisis. more
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A SCHOOL IN A SCHOOL: Academy students are divided into four schools that are awarded points for individual and group activities (points can also be removed). Standings are announced weekly and tallied for the academic year. Here students celebrate following announcement of the totals. (Warwick Beacon photos)
New Catholic high doubles enrollment
Every student had a copy of The Republic of Plato in front of them. Some of the books were open, yet other students had their hands raised or were already engaged in the discussion over when does … more
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Jacob, grade 4, and Brayden, grade 3.
More Warwick students go back to school
A call for greater state support of schools
To the Editor, Education and local property taxes are greatly intertwined. I think all parties or stakeholders in the school funding  debate should work together like never before to … more
Where will athletes play as new schools rise on existing fields?
Here’s the challenge: Construction is set to start next March on the city’s two new high schools. Students will continue attending the existing schools as foundations for the schools take … more
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Patrick 3rd grade
More Warwick students head back to school
Who is ‘responsible’ for school gun violence?
The more things change in America, the more other things seem to stay the same. In the case of gun violence at and within our schools, however, there is a mountain of evidence to back up the … more
Question & answers about Warwick’s new high schools
The following questions were submitted by readers about the new Toll Gate and Pilgrim High schools. Construction is slated to start on the $350 million project in March 2025 and the schools are … more
School administrators started the opening of school last Thursday with a visit to Oakland Beach Elementary that for the last academic year was relocated to Gorton during renovations. It was an occasion for taking pictures as Superintendent Lynn Dambruch demonstrated as she snapped a selfie with third grader Anna Smith. She was not alone. When we asked families to share their first day photos on Facebook, we received scores of pictures. You’ll find lots of smiling kids on page 16. (Warwick Beacon photo)
Warwick kids go back to school
CROSSING THE STAGE: Graduate Joshua Czerwien shakes hands with Pilgrim principal Toby Gibbons as he hands him his diploma. In the foreground, Dorena Ayres’s decorated graduation cap reads “Better Late than Never.”
Perseverance celebrated at summer school graduation
As Warwick Area Career and Technical Center principal Tim Kane said, those in attendance at Toll Gate High School’s auditorium last Friday were gathered to celebrate one thing — … more
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Team gives thumbs up to school openings
As Warwick schools open today, administrators project enrollment to be close to what it was when the system closed for summer vacation. But that’s not to say there aren’t changes. … more
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A NEW TOLL GATE: Architects showed renderings of a three-story Toll Gate High School last week at a special School Committee meeting dedicated to progress on the design of new Toll Gate and Pilgrim High Schools. Construction on the schools is projected to start in March 2025.
Public view plans for new Pilgrim, Toll Gate Schools
Warwick residents gathered into the auditorium of a former high school to take a look at the plans for the city’s future high schools on Wednesday night. In the first of many special … more
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Low rate, big savings
Three quarters of a percentage point doesn’t sound like much until it is applied to millions of dollars and a 20-year repayment schedule. In his five-year forecast issued in July, City … more
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THE BIG ‘E’: An architect’s rendering of the new Pilgrim High School shows the building in the shape of a large E.
A look at latest Pilgrim plans
Those in attendance at Tuesday’s school committee meeting got a sneak preview of the updated schematic design for the new Pilgrim High School. LeftField Project Management Senior Project … more
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ON THE JOB: Jada Trucking of Warwick, whose contract to make the Holliman move was rescinded, was hired as a subcontractor by Vito’s Express to perform the job. (Warwick Beacon photos)
Press is on to open Schools by Aug. 29
“Everyone is doing what they got to do,” Steve Gothberg said Tuesday of the count down to the opening of school on Aug. 29. He said crews are working to 7 and 8 p.m. and over weekends to … more
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Dispelling rumors, answering questions
As School Committee Chair Shaun Galligan points out not since the Warwick Beacon hosted a forum prior to the 2022 election at the Crowne Plaza has there been a public review and discussion of the new … more
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Allegedly $400k in school contracts illegally awarded
Mayor Frank Picozzi has called on state police to investigate allegations that the Warwick School Department awarded contracts totaling more than $400,000 to a trucking company that wasn’t … more
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$20M in Warwick school bonds part of $830M in RIHEBC financing
The Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corporation (RIHEBC) announced this week that it closed on 12 bond financings and refinancings totaling more than $830 million in fiscal year 2024. … more
TESTIMONIALS: from left to right, Wendy Becker, Karen Rosenberg, Connor Pyne, Bill Pyne, Stephanie Geller, Giona Picheco and Victoria Eno, attended the July 15 Cranston School Committee meeting to counter-balance Robert Chiaradio’s attempt to persuade school officials to change the city’s “transgender” and “nonconforming and transitioning students policy.” (Cranston Herald photos by Rory Schuler)
TRANSITION? Should Cranston public schools alter supportive transgender policy?
A Westerly father visited the Cranston School Committee on July 15. As he accused the school district of discriminating against the vast majority of city students, the seventh-ranked student from Cranston High School East’s Top 10 quietly held a rainbow-colored sign, no bigger than a medium-sized pizza box lid. The sign said simply: “We love our kids.” more
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