2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (829+ words) The Jamestown School Committee approved a social media and website policy Thursday that lets the district shut off comments on its pages and requires parent permission slips before students appear on classroom accounts. Parents will be asked to sign permission…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (544+ words) Jamestown's School Committee adopted a social media policy, named two members to a shared-superintendent subcommittee, and took a first reading of a revised cell phone policy. Parents will be asked to sign permission slips before students appear on school-run social…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (615+ words) A transportation consultant's bell-time scenario would push one Cumberland elementary school to a 9:45 a.m. start and save an estimated $400,000, an option the superintendent said he could not recommend and one committee member called "a joke." Cumberland families could see school start…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (506+ words) A new analysis puts the typical first-day school supply haul at about $175 per child — up nearly 8% from last year, with lunch items up 11%. In Rhode Island, where the state covers just 38% of K-12 costs, families and teachers absorb the difference....