Title 16, Title 16 Title 16

All private schools offering instruction in any academic or vocational field to students above the compulsory school age shall be registered at the department of elementary and secondary education or the office of higher education, the registry showing the name of the school, the…

No private school shall promise or guarantee placement or employment as a means of inducing enrolment, and any person, firm, or corporation which conducts a school contrary to these regulations and without the approval of the board of regents for elementary and secondary educatio…

Nothing contained in §§ 16-40-11 through 16-40-13 shall be construed in a manner as to interfere in the operation of any secondary schools that were in existence on May 7, 1941, and which had been approved by the director of education or of private schools or institutions of lear…

The department of elementary and secondary education or the office of higher education shall provide registers for all private schools and institutions, and shall prepare blank forms of inquiry for the facts called for in §§ 16-40-11, 16-40-12; and in doing so shall have special …

(a) In the event that a private school shall close, provision must be made for continued access to student academic and attendance records. Records of elementary school students shall be sent to the receiving school, except that records of elementary and secondary parochial schoo…

Authority to grant academic, collegiate, professional, or other degrees recognizing learning, scholarship, or achievement shall not be included in, or presumed to be part of, the functions of a corporation or of an institution of education unless its charter or the articles of as…

The secretary of state, upon the receipt by him or her of amendments to a charter or articles of incorporation, as required by the general laws, which amendments shall add educational functions or the granting of degrees to the powers or purposes of any existing corporation, shal…

No academy, college, university, or institution of education conducted within this state, nor any officer or member of these, in recognition of the attainment or proficiency of any member of these, scholar, student, subscriber, or other person, in pursuing or graduating from any …

The approval of the appropriate board as provided in this chapter may for proper cause in the discretion of the appropriate board be revoked, after hearing upon twenty (20) days’ notice of the time and place of the hearing given, and of the reasons for the proposed revocation, to…

The admitting of any person or persons to any grade of a degree by conferring the degree upon that person or persons during the continuation of the revocation of the approval shall render this academy, college, university, or other institution of education, or any officer or memb…

The department of elementary and secondary education or the office of higher education shall keep a written record in a book to be provided and used solely for the purpose of recording in this book approvals and revocation of approvals at its office in Providence for the inspecti…

Any academy, college, university, or institution of education or any person being an officer or agent of any academy, college, university, or institution of education incorporated under the laws of this state or transacting business within this state, who shall as an officer or a…

The district court for the sixth division is empowered, upon the filing of a complaint in writing, duly verified, which verification when made by the department of elementary and secondary education or the office of higher education may be made upon information and belief that an…

The superior court for the county of Providence is empowered to grant appropriate injunctive relief to the plaintiff for violation of the provisions of this chapter.