On Monday, April 22, Education Committee Chairwoman Sandra Cano and Senate President Pro Tempore Hanna Gallo will host the Senate Education Summit from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Community College of Rhode Island’s Knight Campus in Warwick. This important discussion, with the theme “Accountability to Rhode Island Students: Measuring Success in Our Education System,” will feature a panel of leaders and an opportunity for discussion among attendees.

During the current session, the Senate Committee on Education has been hard at work on the issues facing our schools. The Committee recently held a pair of hearings with Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green and other officials from RIDE to discuss curriculum and basic education plan progress, as well as accountability progress and updates.

In the last several weeks, the Committee has additionally heard legislation and testimony on strengthening our early childhood care and education workforce, providing services for students with disabilities and individualized education programs (IEPs), addressing chronic absenteeism, and more. And recently, the Committee once again supported Senator Roger Picard’s proposal to enshrine the right to an education in our state constitution.