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Any person aggrieved by any decision or doings of any school committee or in any other matter arising under any law relating to schools or education may appeal to the commissioner of elementary and secondary education who, after notice to the parties interested of the time and pl…

Any decision of the commissioner in these matters shall be subject to an appeal to and review by the board of regents for elementary and secondary education.

All final decisions made after a hearing by the commissioner of elementary and secondary education or the board of regents for elementary and secondary education, and which are not subject to further judicial or administrative review, shall be enforceable by mandamus or any other…

In all cases concerning children, other than cases arising solely under § 16-2-17, the commissioner of elementary and secondary education shall also have power to issue any interim orders pending a hearing as may be needed to ensure that a child receives education in accordance w…

Judicial review may be obtained by any aggrieved party as provided in chapter 35 of title 42.

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as to deprive any aggrieved party of any legal remedy.

The board of regents for elementary and secondary education may prescribe rules regulating the time and manner of taking appeals, and rules to prevent appeals for trifling and frivolous causes.

In any civil suit before any court against any school officer for any matter which might by this chapter have been heard and decided by the board of regents for elementary and secondary education, no costs shall be taxed for the plaintiff if the court is of the opinion that the o…

In any hearing conducted within the department of elementary and secondary education, the commissioner of elementary and secondary education or the hearing officer shall have the power to issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents or oth…

(a) No academy, college, university, or other institution of secondary or higher education shall be incorporated or established in this state or be permitted to transact business, unless exempt pursuant to § 16-40-10, within this state unless and until: (1) Suitable provision, ap…

(a) Nothing contained in §§ 16-40-1 through 16-40-18, except the provisions of § 16-40-3, shall apply to any school or schools conducted under the public school system of this state, nor to any academy, college, university, or institution of education which shall have been establ…

Notwithstanding any rule, regulation or general law to the contrary, the Mater Ecclesiae shall be authorized to grant associate and bachelor degrees provided that it is in compliance with regulations and standards for approval adopted by the board of regents for elementary and se…

All private schools or institutions of learning in this state shall be registered at the office of the department of elementary and secondary education or the office of higher education, the registry showing location, name, officers, or persons in charge, grade of instruction, an…

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.

The Rhode Island higher education assistance authority, on behalf of the state, is authorized and directed to execute a compact, substantially in the following form, with any one or more of the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont: The purpose of…

When the authority shall have executed the compact on behalf of this state and shall have caused a verified copy to be filed with the secretary of state, then the compact shall become operative and effective as between this state and the other state or states. The authority is au…

(a) The governor shall appoint four (4) resident members from Rhode Island who shall serve in accordance with article II of the compact. In the month of May in each year the governor shall appoint successors to those members of the compact whose terms shall expire in that year, t…

To carry out the purposes of this chapter the general assembly shall annually appropriate any sum as it may deem necessary. The state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of any sum or so much of a sum as may b…

(a) Dental, medical, optometry, osteopathic, and veterinary medical students who attend schools under the Rhode Island health professions contract program which is supported by funds from the state may decrease their indebtedness to the state under the following options: (1) Upon…

(a) In any city or town where there is a child eligible to attend elementary or secondary schools who is either gifted or talented to an extent that a standard educational program would not foster potential development, the school committee of the city or town may provide the typ…

It shall be the duty of the board of regents for elementary and secondary education to establish regulations for the purpose of carrying out the intent of this chapter; these regulations shall include: (1) Criteria for the identification of gifted and talented students in the cat…

(a) A state advisory committee shall be established by the department of elementary and secondary education. The committee shall be comprised of not less than fifteen (15) members: one of whom shall be the chairperson of the house finance committee or designee; one of whom shall …

The department of elementary and secondary education is authorized to accept and direct the disbursement of funds appropriated by any acts of Congress and apportioned to the state in connection with 20 U.S.C. § 2301 et seq. The department of elementary and secondary education sha…

The department of elementary and secondary education may enter into any agreements with any agency of the federal government, any school committee, or any other agency or person, may prescribe any regulations, employ any personnel, and take any action that it may deem necessary t…

The department of elementary and secondary education shall prescribe regulations for the keeping of accounts and records and the making of reports by or under the supervision of school committees. These accounts and records shall be available for inspection and audit by authorize…

The general assembly, shall annually appropriate any sum as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

The general assembly, having found that the welfare of the state and the educational interests of many of its young people will be served by college programs of two (2) years’ duration offered by institutions established for this specific purpose, declares its intention to provid…

It shall be the purposes of the community colleges to provide educational programs of two (2) years’ duration as follows: (1) Two (2) year college transfer programs; (2) Two (2) year terminal general education programs; (3) Two (2) year college technical and vocational programs; …

The board of governors for higher education is authorized and empowered to establish an institution to be known as Pawtuxet Valley Community College, and the board is authorized to enroll students in the college.

The board of governors for higher education is authorized and empowered to establish an institution to be known as Mount Hope Community College, and the board is authorized to enroll students in the college.

The board of governors for higher education is hereby authorized and empowered to establish an institution to be known as Blackstone Valley Community College, and the board is authorized to enroll students in the college.

The board of governors for higher education shall be responsible for the control, management, and operation of community colleges in the same manner as it has been responsible for the control, management, and operation of the University of Rhode Island and of Rhode Island College…

The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sum as it may deem necessary for the maintenance and support of the community colleges. The state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of the sum, or so much …