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Kingston Hill Academy Earns Five Stars on 2025-26 Rhode Island Report Card for the Third Consecutive Year
October 9, 2026 Charter public school Kingston Hill Academy received five stars, the highest possible rating, on the Rhode Island 2025-26 Report Card. Kingston Hill Academy is one of only 16 public schools in Rhode Island to receive five stars for their 2025-26...
RINI Alumnus Usman Badaru Mentors Students While Working as a Neuro ICU Nurse
October 8, 2026 Usman Badaru is one of 700 alumni from Rhode Island Nurses Institute Middle College (RINI), a charter public school in Providence. Usman currently works in the neurological intensive care unit (neuro ICU) at Rhode Island Hospital. He mentors RINI...
RI Charter Public Schools Start the Year Strong
October 7, 2026 Dear Friends and Supporters, Every school year begins anew. A new teacher to meet. A new classroom to find. A new seat, a new locker, and maybe a new friend at the next desk. Over the past month, that fresh start played out across Rhode Island's...
RI Charter Public Schools Recognized as Attendance All-Stars
August 17, 2026 Today, Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee and Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green recognized 30 public schools, including seven charter public schools, as Attendance All-Stars based on their 2025-26 attendance data. Additionally, students from...
Two RI Charter Public Schools Named Best High Schools by U.S. News and World Report
August 18, 2026 Two Rhode Island charter public schools, Blackstone Valley Prep and The Greene School, were named to the top 10 of U.S. News & World Report's 2026-27 Best Rhode Island High Schools list. Blackstone Valley Prep ranked #6 and The Greene School ranked...
2025-26 Highlights from Our Charter Public Schools
July 29, 2026 Dear Friends and Supporters, This spring, there was no shortage of noise. At the State House and in the headlines, the noise came from political debates, anti-charter legislation, and endless arguments about the future of charter public schools. Inside...
Charter Public Schools Are Addressing the Learning Recession
July 20, 2026 Rhode Island's charter public schools are taking intentional, student-centered approaches to help students recover from the learning disruptions of recent years and prevent future learning loss. In a recent article by Steph Bernaba, educators from The...
Kingston Hill Academy Recognized as a Blue Ribbon School
On Thursday, June 11, 2026, Governor Dan McKee, Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green, and the Rhode Island Department of Education recognized Kingston Hill Academy as a 2026 Blue Ribbon School. The charter public school received this recognition for its exemplary high...
Governor’s Decision Limits Future Educational Opportunities for Rhode Island Students
June 18, 2026 From Chiara Deltito-Sharrott, Executive Director of the Rhode Island League of Charter Public Schools: "We are devastated by the Governor's decision to support the charter public school moratorium and allow it to become law. Nothing about this bill...
Multiple Businesses Oppose Moratorium on Charter Schools
June 16, 2026 As reported by GoLocal, multiple business organizations joined the Rhode Island League of Charter Public Schools to urge Governor McKee to veto the charter public school moratorium bill. The legislation prohibits the creation or expansion of charter...