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Friday, May 13, 2022Rhode Island Foundation Updates Hundreds of Community and Business Leaders at its 2022 Annual Meeting
Highlights include presenting annual awards, reviewing 2021 and looking ahead to 2022 and beyondRhode Island Foundation President and CEO Neil D. Steinberg asked hundreds of business and community leaders to "to show up, listen up, speak up, stand up, step up, and rise up to tackle the challenges and opportunities ahead" during the organization's annual meeting at the R.I. Convention Center. “Our programs, funds, initiatives and leadership activities reach every person throughout Rhode Island. We strive
Wednesday, April 27, 2022Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council Releases Education Finance Report
After enacting and fully implementing the state funding formula, inequalities persist. The Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council released a report on Rhode Island’s education finance system today. The report, the third in RIPEC’s series on municipal finance, found that the overhaul of the state’s education finance system a decade ago has been successful in increasing the state’s share of overall education revenues and in targeting this increased aid to poorer districts. However, despite
