Central Falls, Rhode Island

• Is Bill Maher right, should we fire the parents?
  

  This blog, along with many in education have been following the story of the teachers who were fired at a Rhode Island high school I said: This goes without saying is one very complicated and complex story.

• Mass Firings Just the Beginning of Change at Central Falls High
  

  Today I am reading about Central Falls High School in Rhode Island. The superintendent of schools has fired every teacher and administrator because the teachers have asked for additional compensation to support a plan to turnaround the failing school.

• Central Falls girl, 14, robbed at gunpoint; police seek info
  

  A girl, 14, told police that she was robbed at gunpoint at Clay and High streets by a man in a black hooded sweatshirt with blue and orange elephants who followed her around the Providence Place shopping mall on Saturday night.

• Superintendent, union discuss Central Falls school plan
  

  Central Falls School Supt. Frances Gallo, the city's teacher union leaders and more than 20 other representatives of education, non-profit and community organizations attended a planning session on the future of Central Falls High School at 10 a.m. Thursday morning.

• Silent Protest Planned for Central Falls Teachers
  

  Students and alumni say they'll hold a silent protest in support of the teachers fired at Central Falls High School.

• Firing of all teachers at RI school roils students
  

  Ashley Delgado graduated from one of Rhode Island's worst-performing high schools and wanted to go to college - if only she could get there.When Delgado's parents could not take her to visit Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass., her French teacher at Central Falls High School, Hope Evanoff, took her by train and helped her seek financial aid.

• Two high school graduates from Central Fall, RI, step up for their school
  

  There is one very good thing in this kerfuffle over Central Falls High School. It is the attention people are now giving to the school and the questions they are asking about what it should and shouldn't be.

• Grads rally for school, blast Obama
  

  Ashley Delgado, 19, expressed her displeasure with President Obama's comments about the school.

• MTA members urged to join information picket on Central Falls firings
  

  A message from MTA President Anne Wass and Vice President Paul Toner. Educators from Central Falls, R.I., are holding an informational picket on Wednesday, March 17, at the Rhode Island Department of Education headquarters in Providence, R.I. They are inviting their fellow educators from Massachusetts to join them to send a simple message to school ...

• Firing teachers: First step to reform or useless effort?
  

  Is the wholesale firing of teachers and administrators at an underperforming Rhode Island high school just the kind of get-tough intervention students need? Or is it an unproven, risky disaster waiting to happen? President Obama angered teachers unions last week by coming out in favor of the firings at Central Falls High School.

• Central Falls Superintendent Stalling on Talks With Teachers
  

  Less than a week after agreeing to negotiate with fired teachers at Central Falls High School and their union, the school superintendent is delaying the talks.

• Central Falls High School math teacher Kathy Luther (left), librarian Debbie Fisher (second from lef
  

  Central Falls High School math teacher Kathy Luther , librarian Debbie Fisher , English teacher Deloris Davis Grant , and math teacher Pat McKenna , protest before a February school committee meeting in Central Falls, R.I. The panel voted to fire every high school teacher at the end of the school year.

• Fire the teachers? When schools fail, it may work
  

  It is a strategy that has been used elsewhere, such as in Chicago and Los Angeles.

• Rhode Island teachers fired: Education commissioner Deborah Gist will not guarantee rehires
  

  After the teacher's union failed to agree on an education reform model in February, the entire faculty at Central Falls High was fired.

• Fire the teachers? Nothing New Here.: Rick Green | CT Confidential
  

  The Educated Reporter reminds us that while it seems pretty dramatic that a high school in Rhode Island is making every teacher re-apply for their job, it's hardly new.

• RI: Teacher firings ripple past Central Fallsa border
  

  "Inside the front door to Central Falls High School, across the street from a boarded-up building, an archway is adorned with an unambiguous boast: 'Through these halls pass the worlda s best faculty and students.' It is a motto that rings false for the local school board, which recently voted to fire all of the schoola s staff in a stunning move ...

• Rhode Island School Firings Are Embraced by the Obama Administration
  

  March 6, 2010 School's Shake-Up Is Embraced by the President By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and SAM DILLON A Rhode Island school board's decision to fire the entire faculty of a poorly performing school, and President Obama's endorsement of the action, has stirred a storm of reaction nationwide, with teachers condemning it as an insult and conservatives ...

• Suspended Providence officers arraigned in drug case
  

  Surrounded by deputy sheriffs, Providence Patrolman Robert J. Hamlin, a school resource officer, is arraigned in District Court, Providence, this morning.

• Obama not gutless after all
  

  The right accuses Barack Obama of dragging the country way left, and the left calls him gutless.

City Description

Central Falls is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 18,928 at the 2000 census. With an area of only 1.29 square miles, it is the smallest but most densely populated city in the smallest state, and the thirty-second most densely populated incorporated place in the United States. Central Falls takes its name from a waterfall on the nearby Blackstone River. Central Falls is located at 41°53′24″N 71°23′33″W / 41.89°N 71.3925°W / 41.89; -71.3925 (41.889863, -71.392606). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.3 km²), of which, 1.2 square miles (3.1 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km²) of it (6.20%) is water. Central Falls was the home of Elizabeth Buffum Chace, an abolitionist and conductor in the Underground Railroad. Chace was also the first woman in Rhode Island to be commemorated with a statue in the Rhode Island State House. As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 18,928 people, 6,696 households, and 4,359 families residing in the city. The population density was 15,652.0 people per square meli (6,039.8/km²). There were 7,270 housing units at an average density of

City Contained By:

• United States of America
• Rhode Island
• Providence County

City Contains:

• South Central Falls Historic District
• Central Falls Mill Historic District
• Jenks Park & Cogswell Tower
• Central Street School
• Samuel B. Conant House
• Central Falls Congregational Church
• Benjamin F. Greene House
• Holy Trinity Church Complex
• David G. Fales House
• Valley Falls Mill
• Valley Falls Mill, Office and Bath House
• St. Matthew's Church

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 3.34108466233 km squared

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