Posted on 04-29-2011 Five schools will be closed
These are the schools being closed: Asa Messer Elementary, Messer Annex, Windmill Elementary Flynn Elementary and West Broadway Elementary. Bridgham Middle School will convert into primary school.
PROVIDENCE - The Board of the Providence School Department, voted Thursday night, the closing of five schools to the rejection of more than 300 people, parents, teachers and students who tried to stop the measure.
"Shame! Shame! Shame! "The protesters chanted during the vote of the Board when deciding the future of the end of each school.
Not all Board members supported the closures and other measures, Robert Wise was the only board member to vote no on each school closure. Schools that will close are: Asa Messer Elementary, Messer Annex, Windmill Elementary Flynn Elementary and West Broadway Elementary. Bridgham Middle School will convert into primary school. Mayor Angel
Taveras said the city faces a financial crisis of epic proportions. Says the city will save between 7.7 million and $ 10.4 million by closing schools and reducing staff. Insists that schools should assume a large part of the budget deficit because it comprises about half the city budget.
But people affected by the closure of the proposal say the closures are unwise, unnecessary and unfair-sary.
City officials have said that children displaced by the closure will be relocated to schools where vacancies vacant classrooms.
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Angel Angel Taveras Taveras is the thirty-seventh mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. Lawyer and former judge of the Providence Housing Court, the mayor Taveras was elected the first Latino mayor of the city with 82% of the vote in November 2010.
Taveras, 40, grew up in South Providence, where he attended the Head Start program before joining Providence public schools and graduated with honors from Harvard University. Before
to pursue his dream of becoming a lawyer, Taveras Mayor used a grant to create an afterschool program at the Elmwood Community Center for young economically disadvantaged. After receiving his doctorate in law from the Georgetown University in Washington , Mayor Taveras returned to Providence where he joined the prestigious law firm Brown Rudnick, LLP.
In 1999, Taveras was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress of the United States. Despite not winning the race, was supported by about 6,000 voters in the Second District, which was described by the Providence Journal as "the only surprise during the war." Since then, the mayor Taveras was established as a leader with great potential in the political arena who described his career as Head Start to Harvard as a fulfillment of the American dream.
Mayor Taveras returned to private practice and later started his own small business, Taveras Law Office, PC, a practice based in Providence, where he established himself as a respected litigator and a prominent civil defense, especially in the field of electoral law.
addition, the mayor Taveras has shown a deep commitment to his community, and founder and executive board member of New Urban Arts, founding director of the Providence Plan, and the Board of Advisors of the International Institute. He is a graduate of Leadership Executive Leadership Program Rhode Island in 1999. He was also selected as a Fellow of the Lawyers Foundation of Rhode Island in 2008, an honor given to lawyers whose professional, public and private career has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to the welfare of the community.
In 2007, Taveras was appointed by former Mayor David N. Cicilline to serve as associate justice of the Providence Housing Court and was confirmed twice by the council of the city of Providence. During his tenure as judge, Mayor Taveras was instrumental in leading the modernization of administrative and legal processes of the entity.
All of his personal history and professional experience has prepared him to lead Providence to a future full of opportunity.
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