by Elizabeth McNamara | Mar 19, 2019 | Government, News, Schools
By Elizabeth F. McNamara A joint Town Council and School Committee committee charged with determining if the town and the schools should have one finance director (as was established last year) or return to having separate finance heads for the town and the schools...
by Elizabeth McNamara | Mar 14, 2019 | Good News, Schools
Above: The 2019 East Greenwich High School Academic Decathlon team. ESPN may not be mentioning these achievements like they did Patrick Shea’s recent buzzer beater but lots of students at the high school have been racking up accolades in areas ranging from Academic...
by Elizabeth McNamara | Mar 7, 2019 | Good News, Schools
By Elizabeth F. McNamara The suspense was building as students filed into the gym at Cole Middle School Thursday for a special assembly. When the TV camera and Channel 10’s Patrice Wood showed up, it was clear a Golden Apple award wasn’t far away. But who was getting...
by Elizabeth McNamara | Mar 6, 2019 | Government, News, Schools
By Elizabeth F. McNamara According to School Committee lawyer Matt Oliverio, the R.I. Dept. of Education (RIDE) has formulated an advisory opinion in response to the East Greenwich School Committee’s request for Commissioner Ken Wagner to weigh in on the...
by Elizabeth McNamara | Feb 28, 2019 | Government, News, Schools
By Elizabeth F. McNamara East Greenwich is on track to get $630,000 less in state education aid for fiscal year 2020, a drop that had some local officials wondering why and if there was anything to be done about it. At a meeting Tuesday with the state House fiscal...
by egnews | Feb 26, 2019 | Good News, Schools
By Megan Cronin On Aug. 31, 2006, a group of bright-eyed kindergartners walked into Miss Vadnais’s classroom for their very first day of school. It was not only the students’ first day of school, but it was also Miss Vadnais’s first day teaching in East Greenwich....
