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He pushed for RI to take over Providence schools. Does Elorza think it was worth it?

Jun 11, 2024 View Original Article
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    -8% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -22% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -58% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : "They've put pressure on traditional schools to keep up.
52% : "There are frankly very few reforms in education that have provided game-changing results, and charter schools have done that in some places," But how realistic is it to switch over a system of 37 schools, and what would happen to Providence's 1,800 traditional educators? Elorza answers by saying New Orleans went to virtually all charter schools after Hurricane Katrina.
47% : Elorza "did absolutely nothing for Providence public schools except to level-fund them" for eight years, says Maribeth Calabro, president of the Providence Teachers Union.
43% : "Many of the teachers from traditional schools went to work in charters.
33% : "Like, why isn't this the only thing we're talking about?" The state took over Providence public schools in November 2019, five months after a scathing report by a team of educators from Johns Hopkins University that found the beleaguered school system one of the worst in the country and where little learning was taking place.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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