SCHOOL HOUSE REPORT
Following the??release of the R.I. Department of Education’s 2017 State of Rhode Island Schoolhouses report, which was the culmination of??a year-long assessment commissioned by the School Building Authority and completed by Jacobs Engineering, Governor Raimondo signed an executive order creating the Rhode Island School Building??Task Force.
The??Task Force, which is co-chaired by Treasurer??Magaziner and Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Ken Wagner,??will consider policy and financial models focused on how to meet the needs outlined in the Schoolhouses report.????The Task Force will report its recommendations,??which will include??potential funding streams and recommendations on how to effectively maximize resources, to the Governor by December 2017. Other members of the Task Force include:
DOA Director Michael DiBiase, School Building Authority Advisory Board
Chairwoman Hanna Gallo, on behalf of the Senate
Chairman Marvin Abney, on behalf of the House of Representatives
Jamestown Town Administrator Andy Nota, on behalf of the League of Cities and Towns
Joseph Dewhirst, Chairman, Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corporation
Michael Sabitoni, President, RI Building and Construction Trades Council and Business Manager, Laborers Local 271
Frank Flynn, President, Rhode Island Federation of Teachers and Health Professionals
Larry Purtill, President, National Education Association of Rhode Island and Member, Council of Elementary and Secondary Education
Kinzel Thomas, Providence School Board, on behalf of the RI Association of School Committees
Barry Ricci, Chariho Superintendent, on behalf of the RI Superintendent’s Association
Patricia Flanagan, M.D., Pediatrician-in-Chief at Hasbro Children’s Hospital and professor of pediatrics at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Neil Steinberg, Rhode Island Foundation President
John Hazen White, Jr., Chairman and Owner, Taco Comfort Solutions
Elizabeth Burke Bryant, Executive Director, Rhode Island KIDS COUNT??
The first meeting of the Task Force??was on??Friday, September 29, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. at Alger Hall, Rhode Island College. You can download the agenda and presentations below. Additional information on the Task Force, including??meeting dates and locations can be found here
Following the??release of the R.I. Department of Education’s 2017 State of Rhode Island Schoolhouses report, which was the culmination of??a year-long assessment commissioned by the School Building Authority and completed by Jacobs Engineering, Governor Raimondo signed an executive order creating the Rhode Island School Building??Task Force.
The??Task Force, which is co-chaired by Treasurer??Magaziner and Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Ken Wagner,??will consider policy and financial models focused on how to meet the needs outlined in the Schoolhouses report.????
The Task Force will report its recommendations,??which will include??potential funding streams and recommendations on how to effectively maximize resources, to the Governor by December 2017.