Title 16, Title 16 Title 16

Public evening schools and day continuation schools established under the provisions of this chapter may, if approved by the department of elementary and secondary education, receive state support from the annual appropriations for evening schools and industrial education.

The department of elementary and secondary education is authorized and empowered to provide for the visitation, inspection, and supervision of day and evening schools maintained under the provisions of this chapter, and the general assembly shall annually appropriate any sum that…

Attendance in private schools or private instruction in the English language may be accepted as compliance with this chapter in lieu of attendance on public instruction only if the private instruction is approved by the school committee as substantially equivalent in content, met…

The purpose of this chapter is threefold: to assist school districts within the state to establish cooperative service operations and the method of administering those operations; to provide for the delivery of administrative and instructional services desired by school districts…

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the school committees of the cities and towns of Barrington, Bristol, East Providence, Little Compton, Middletown, Newport, Portsmouth, Tiverton, and Warren are authorized and empowered to continue …

Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the school committees of the cities of Providence, Pawtucket, East Providence, Central Falls and other Rhode Island school districts as may be approved for inclusion by existing member districts in acco…

Any collaborative established under this chapter shall implement a uniform system of accounting in compliance with § 16-2-9.3 to track their expenditures and investments and file a report on said expenditures and investments by October 1, of each year, with the Rhode Island board…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Cooperative Service Among School Districts Act of 2010.”

(a) A collaborative approach to the dual mission of educational effectiveness and business efficiency is the purpose of this educational collaborative act. The goal is to maximize both educational effectiveness and business services which will lead to cost savings. The educationa…

The board of regents for elementary and secondary education may provide for special grants that it may deem necessary to stimulate and encourage the development of cooperative service agreements that would be administered by the area educational collaborative. The regents may als…

(a) The board of regents for elementary and secondary education shall adopt rules and regulations regarding all aspects of the educational collaboratives mission and goals. (b) Instructional education programs and/or administrative and/or best business practice plans will be subm…

Each educational collaborative’s board of directors will set policies and programs consistent with the aims and intents of this legislation for approval by the department of education and developed in conjunction with educational collaborative staff. Each participating school com…

Nothing in this chapter shall allow any school district to abrogate any agreement reached by collective bargaining.

(a) Any school committee, acting for or on behalf of its district, may enter into an agreement with one or more other school committees to conduct jointly instructional education programs and/or administrative functions, provided that the agreement has been reviewed and is recomm…

Nothing in this chapter shall limit any of the five (5) educational collaboratives from purchasing, leasing, taking by gift, or otherwise acquiring, own, hold, mortgage, finance, improve, and use real estate for purposes of furthering their mission and goals to meet their adminis…

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the school committees of the cities of Providence and Central Falls are authorized and empowered to initiate and implement cooperative efforts, including, but not limited to, collaborative use of te…

The board of regents for elementary and secondary education shall adopt regulations regarding all aspects of the agreement. Each agreement shall fully describe the services to be rendered, the terms by which each school district shall share in the cost of the services, and shall …

The board of regents for elementary and secondary education may provide for special grants which it may deem necessary to stimulate the formation of cooperative service arrangements, and it may establish the level of subsidy that it deems appropriate to continue the operation of …

(a) Each original agreement shall provide for the disposition, upon termination, of any unencumbered funds, equipment, supplies, and property, real or personal, held pursuant to the agreement. The commissioner of elementary and secondary education shall resolve any and all disput…

Nothing in this chapter shall allow any school district to abrogate any agreement reached by collective bargaining.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the school committees of the towns of Middletown, Portsmouth, Tiverton, and Little Compton are authorized and empowered to continue their cooperative efforts to provide special education programs and di…

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the school committees of the cities and towns of Lincoln, Cumberland, Pawtucket, Central Falls, Woonsocket, Smithfield, North Smithfield, North Providence, Johnston, Foster, Glocester, Foster-Gloces…

Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the school committees of the towns and school districts of Westerly, New Shoreham, Chariho regional school district, Narragansett, Jamestown, South Kingstown, North Kingstown, East Greenwich, and the Ex…

Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the school committees of the towns and school districts of West Warwick, Providence, Warwick, Coventry, Cranston, Scituate, Foster-Glocester regional school district, Foster, and Glocester are authorize…

As part of the effort to transform education in Rhode Island, the general assembly is committed to developing and supporting strategies that foster cultures of excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement in Rhode Island schools. The general assembly believes that all distr…

(a) The following entities may be designated as an empowerment school: a school in a public-school district, a school within a school in a public-school district, a career and technical education program within a public-school district, a state school. (b) Except as otherwise pro…

(a) The commissioner of elementary and secondary education shall develop a process for a public school, with the approval of its superintendent and school committee, to be designated as an empowerment school with the duties, responsibilities, and autonomies set forth in this chap…

(a) Principals of empowerment schools shall be the educational leaders and administrators of their schools and shall supervise the operation and management of their schools and school property. It shall be the responsibility of the principal to promote participatory decision-maki…

(a) All services, centrally or otherwise, provided by the school district in which the empowerment school is located that the empowerment school decides to utilize, including, but not limited to, financial services, transportation, food services, custodial services, maintenance, …

Each empowerment school shall be reviewed by the department of elementary and secondary education on a schedule determined by the commissioner. Based on an evaluation of the empowerment school’s plan, its impact on student achievement, or its impact on the health and welfare of i…

In addition to federal law and this chapter, the following provisions of this title shall be binding on empowerment schools. Accordingly, school committees may not endorse, nor may the commissioner approve, any request for waiver of the following provisions pursuant to this chapt…

The general assembly may annually appropriate funds to support empowerment schools. This appropriation shall be managed by the department of elementary and secondary education.

The department of elementary and secondary education shall promulgate such regulations as are necessary to implement fully the purposes of this chapter.

Where in any existing law reference is made to Rhode Island State College, the term “University of Rhode Island” shall be used in lieu of this term.

The board of trustees, with the approval of the president and a committee of the faculty of the university, shall award academic degrees and diplomas and confer honors in the same manner as is customary in American colleges. It shall also be the duty of the president and a commit…

The board of trustees is authorized and empowered to carry out the provisions of §§ 16-32-12 through 16-32-14 in regard to the guaranty of loans made to societies and students at the university.

The board of trustees is authorized and empowered on behalf of the university of Rhode Island to acquire land and also to guarantee in the name of the state approved loans made to societies of students at the university, for the purchase or construction, upon lands owned by the u…

Any loans made to societies of students at the university under the terms and provisions of §§ 16-32-12 and 16-32-15 shall be eligible for investment for the state investment commission of this state.

The amount or amounts guaranteed and the amount or amounts guaranteed under the provisions of § 16-32-12 shall not at any one time exceed in the aggregate the sum of one million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000).

Whenever default is made on the part of a society in the payment of loans guaranteed under the provisions of § 16-32-12, or any part of them, the board of trustees is authorized to assume the obligation and to make required payments on principal and interest from any of the appro…

The University of Rhode Island is authorized and empowered to establish in connection with the university a department of marine biology. The department shall establish a marine biological laboratory with suitable facilities for research on problems involving animal life in Rhode…

The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sum as it may deem necessary for maintaining the department of marine biology and the marine biological laboratory; and the state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the…

(a) There is hereby created a board of trustees for the university of Rhode Island, sometimes referred to as the “board” or “board of trustees,” which shall be and is constituted a public corporation, empowered to sue and be sued in its own name; to borrow money; to compromise an…

In addition to any powers granted to the president of the university of Rhode Island by law or regulation, and consistent with shared governance practices, in conformity with § 16-32-10, the president shall have the following additional powers and duties: (a) To create and consol…

(a) There is hereby established a board of trustees for the university of Rhode Island consisting of seventeen (17) members. The governor shall appoint the initial members, with the advice and consent of the senate, to serve on the board of trustees, until the expiration of their…

All money received pursuant to the provisions of chapter 3644 of the Public Laws of 1956 shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held by the general treasurer or by the university of Rhode Island foundation, as provided in § 16-32-26, in a special fund the income of which shall b…