Legislation

Both chambers collaborated to put forth a package of bills intended to provide a comprehensive overhaul of the public education system in Rhode Island.

This bill would have proposed an amendment to the Rhode Island constitution guaranteeing the right to an adequate education.

This legislation creates threat assessment teams for each school in Rhode Island and allows individual school boards to adopt relevant policies for their implementation.

This legislation would have implemented comprehensive privacy requirements for school-loaned computers.

While current regulations require school authorization for students to bring over-the-counter medication to school, we argue that students shouldn’t need permission from a school nurse to bring Tums or Midol on campus. These bills would have addressed this issue.

This bill would have granted access to student names, addresses, and phone numbers to military recruiters unless the student or parent of the student opted out of having this information made available.

There were a number of bills introduced this year seeking to improve school security by imposing police-type enforcement measures into the school setting, including one buried within the 2019 budget.

There were a number of bills this year seeking to improve school security by imposing law enforcement-type enforcement measures into the school setting. Among those was a proposal requiring that ten percent of school aid be allocated to school safety measures.

This legislation sought to require all higher education institutions to arm their campus police, regardless of the wishes of school administrators or students.