If your child entered Kindergarten in PVD in 2014 (the first year assessed by Hopkins report) the system had proficiencies of 10% Math, 14% ELA. That child will graduate next year with 16% Math, 18% ELA proficiency in the system. Your child was given up on. Demand better.
Rep Mike Chippendale@MikeWChip
Sep 25
All the "adults" have been fighting for control of the "system" in PVD. It's not about the students languishing in illiteracy, or the inability to understand a multiplication table - it never was. They only care about the the system. They'd rather rule over the ashes than fix it.

Sep 25, 2026 · 6:14 PM UTC

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Replying to @MikeWChip @patrams11
Let's not forget that RI withheld the federal tax credit for scholarship that could help ... denying a life preserver to the drowning.
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Replying to @MikeWChip
That child should not be graduating unless and until they can read and write on grade level. There is no excuse for failure to educate.
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Replying to @MikeWChip
So the take over by the State accomplished nothing? We have thrown it back to the City hoping for a different outcome…sadly the outcome will be more money for the Unions almost guaranteed because a socialist mayor @DavidMoralesPVD is about to be elected…in the meantime time dumber and dumber are our children.
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Replying to @MikeWChip
How about stop wasting money on programs that don’t address the deficits. PVD is currently using ARC (American Reading Company) that does not help emerging readers. Or Eureka 2 which only gives minimal practice of strategies that don’t fix being unable to add/subtract to 10.
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Replying to @MikeWChip
Demand better from who? The state failed these kids. The bureaucracy at RIde showed how useless a state education agency really is. Local control and better transparency can help. But, follow the money and see where there was waste.
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Providence schools have become a bridge program to the ACI.
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Replying to @MikeWChip @RIHouseGOP
The school system is a disgraceful mess. Totally lost focus on their core reason for existence.
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Replying to @MikeWChip
When the President of the RI Senate is actively participating in the teachers union you know its power and money for politicians not education
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Replying to @MikeWChip
Very sad.
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😞😞😡😡😡
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Replying to @MikeWChip
Yes...but Trump!
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