Newport Public Schools
Newport Public Schools

How are Newport Schools addressing a shortfall of reportedly $12 million needed for the Rogers High School re-construction? We’ll learn that and more when School Superintendent Colleen Burns Jermain joins What’s Up Newp for her monthly live virtual video conversation on Wednesday at 1:30 pm.

We’ll also ask about progress on the elementary school project, the annual budget process, school staffing, and school policies during the pandemic. 

With February being Black History Month, and a debate over how much racial history should be taught, will there be any limitations to teaching about Black history? We’ll also want to learn about the growth of career/technical education in Newport, and whether there’s been any measure of how student learning suffered during recent periods of remote learning. 

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Frank Prosnitz brings to WhatsUpNewp several years in journalism, including 10 as editor of the Providence (RI) Business News and 14 years as a reporter and bureau manager at the Providence (RI) Journal. Prosnitz began his journalism career as a sportswriter at the Asbury Park (NJ) Press, moving to The News Tribune (Woodbridge, NJ), before joining the Providence Journal. Prosnitz hosts the Morning Show on WLBQ radio (Westerly), 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday, and It’s Your Business, also...

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