169 chapters · 1,225 sections in this title.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-29-1. Establishment of free evening schools
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One or more public evening schools, in which attendance shall be free for persons resident in the city or town in which the school shall be located, and in which the speaking, reading, and writing of the English language shall be taught for two (2) hours on each of at least one h…
R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-29-10. Enforcement of attendance requirement
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The truant officer or truant officers appointed by the school committee in compliance with the provisions of § 16-19-3 shall, under the direction of the school committee, inquire into all cases of irregular attendance or of failure or neglect to attend upon instruction in complia…
R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-29-11. Establishment of home and community classes
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The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sum as it may deem necessary for the promotion of home and community classes in any city or town for instruction in the use of the English language, in the common rights and obligations of citizenship, and in the fundamental pri…
R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-29-12. Teachers for home classes — Joint maintenance by two or more towns
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When in any city or town a class of twenty (20) or more persons has been organized in accordance with the provisions of § 16-29-11, the school committee shall provide a teacher for this class, and pay the expenses of instruction from the appropriation of the city or town for the …