Thursday, April 19, 2012
While Bristol Warren schools ranked in the double digits for overall student performance, the district as a whole ranked above the state average.
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
The following is a press release localized for the Bristol Warren Regional School District: The Rhode Island Campaign for Achievement Now (RI-CAN) released its 2012 School Report Cards for 300 Rhode Island public schools. In overall student performance, the Bristol Warren Regional School District elementary schools ranked 13th in the state, while Kickemuit Middle School tied with North Kingstown for 11th place, and Mt. Hope High School tied with North Smithfield for 11th place. “The report cards are designed to help Rhode Island parents serve as effective advocates for their kids," said Maryellen Butke, RI-CAN executive director. "Parents deserve to know how well their child’s public school is meeting the needs of all of its students.” RI-…
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Warren Town Council President Chris Stanley speaks out about the town budget.
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
The recent Joint Finance Committee (JFC) vote has placed the Town of Warren in an extraordinarily difficult position. The JFC council’s vote will seriously cripple our community’s ability to meet a number of our resident’s basic needs and will devastate our ability to successfully deal with the fiscal challenges that lay ahead. The JFC significantly increased next year’s level of maintenance for the school district. The town, as a corporation, cannot afford to fund the dollar amount the JFC passed in its 6-3 vote, financially or philosophically. The town struggled to slash our operating costs in hopes of building a responsible budget. Instead, we built a budget that does not allow the residents to reward their department heads for the hard…
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Council President Chris Stanley says Warren could see eliminations to whole departments in order to supply the school district with the approved contribution.
Against the request of the Warren Town Council, the Joint finance Committee passed the FY13 school budget with an increase over the FY12 budget, which Warren leaders say could cause turmoil in the town's budget and significantly raise tax rates. "We have an incredible education program here in Bristol and Warren," said Warren Council President Chris Stanley prior to the final decision. "But that doesn't make a difference if I don't have a town left to lead. We just can't afford it." According to Stanley, the additional $416,229 which was approved during the meeting is going to have devastating impacts on the town of Warren. "It has come to the point where we're going to have to shut the doors and put the padlocks on the Town Hall to keep …
The school budget passed with a 2.25 percent contribution increase over the FY12 budget with in a 6-3 vote with opposition from the members representing the town of Warren.
Correction: The Joint Finance Committee approved a 2.25 percent increase in town contributions. Overall, school budget will increase .45 percent over FY12. After the Joint Finance Committee's Warren representatives were shot down in a 3-6 vote in a motion to level fund the district, the Joint finance Committee passed the Bristol Warren Regional School District FY13 budget with a 2.25 percent increase in contribution from the two towns over the FY12 budget. The budget passed 6-3, with all Bristol representatives voting in favor and all members representing Warren voting against. The meeting drew less than 100 teachers, administrators, school committee members and members of the public who attended in either support or opposition to the …
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Superintendent Melinda Thies distributed an email on Monday that allegedly misrepresented the views of Warren Town Councilor Cathie Tattrie.
Shortly after the first Joint Finance Committee Meeting, Warren Town Councilor Cathie Tattrie voiced her concern regarding the impact of the school's budget request on the Warren town budget and requested feedback from residents. "If the majority of Warren tells us to give the school department what they are asking for, we will give it and try to muddle along," Tattrie wrote in the post. "If Warren asks us not to give it, then we will go that way. But some input from our citizens would be nice. We are here to serve you." But on Monday, Superintendent Melinda Thies distributed an email through the parent groups for Bristol and Warren schools falsely stating that if Tattrie received a number of emails showing support of funding the budget …
Superintendent Melinda Thies sent out an email asking for local residents to voice their support of the proposed budget to a Warren Town Councilor.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The following is an email that was distributed by Superintendent Melinda Thies and circulated through the parent groups in the Bristol-Warren Regional School District: I am asking for your assistance regarding the district’s fiscal year 2013 Budget Request. Our second Jt. Finance Committee meeting is scheduled for tomorrow night, March 27that 7:00 pm at the MHHS auditorium. We have heard through various media postings that the Warren Town Council is unable to meet our 1.52% Budget Request and has been quoted that it will level fund the district. This would be devastating to the program and instructional supports we provide the children of Bristol and Warren. One of our School Committee members has conducted an outreach to Cathie Tattrie…
Monday, March 5, 2012
The Mt. Hope Masqueraders will be hosting the Rhode Island State Drama Festival this March.
The Mt. Hope High School Masqueraders will be performing the play, “The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon” in the RI State Drama Festival on Saturday, March 17 at 1 pm at the Mt. Hope Performing Arts Center. Mt. Hope is also proud to announce that the school will be hosting the State Drama Festival for Rhode Island high school students on March 16 and 17th. The festival will feature works from 11 high schools throughout the state including Barrington High School, Beacon Charter High School for the Arts, Bishop Hendricken High School, Cumberland High School, Mt. Hope High School, St. Mary Academy-Bay View, St. Raphael High School, Scituate High School, South Kingstown High School, and Westerly High School. The shows will run from 6 pm to 9:30 …
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Take a glimpse at some of the sights around Bristol and Warren.
Thank you to Colt-Andrews School Principal Tracey McGee for sending in the photograph! Do you like to take pictures? Have you recently captured a shot of something neat in town? Send us your favorite shot from around Bristol and Warren and it could become our Photo of the Day! E-mail photos and a few sentences with information including when the photo was taken, where it was taken and who is in it, to sara.bagwell@patch.com or text them to (401) 835-8843.
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Only about 2 percent of schools nationwide have achieved HealthierUS status.
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The following is a release from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service. John Magnarelli, USDA’s top regional school lunch official, presented Bristol Warren Regional School District Elementary Schools with HealthierUS Awards, one of the nation’s highest school nutrition awards, from the US Department of Agriculture. Magnarelli applauded Colt Andrews, Guiteras, Hugh Cole and Rockwell elementary school students, food service staff and school officials for earning Bronze awards in USDA's HealthierUS School Challenge (HUSSC). Only about 2 percent of schools nationwide have achieved HealthierUS status. "We are reminded about the importance of providing our children access to nutritious meals so they are able to learn, thrive and grow," said …
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The series will start on Wednesday, Feb. 29, at 6:30 pm and will cover "Internet Safety and Use of Social Media"
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The Bristol Warren Education Foundation (BWEF) and the Bristol Warren Regional School District (BWRSD) have partnered on an initiative to engage the community. Together, they are launching a community outreach series to focus on topics of interest to parents, students and members of community. The goal of the series is to build awareness around relevant issues, current educational initiatives, grow capacity in adults and youth to meet the challenges of an increasingly complex world and hone the tools in the parent and educator toolbox that will support student success. Research demonstrates that there is a strong correlation between community involvement in education and its positive effects on achievement. The series is designed to …
Bob Venice
7:38 pm on Thursday, April 19, 2012
Just think, that if the Town Council would have let the condo's be built in the North End of Town, we would have already been collecting over 1 mil in taxes. Think about all the cuts to the budget that we would not have had to make. What a blunder, and to top it off the Counil has never admitted that a mistake was made. Nor will they ever. more ›