Latest News
Click on the posts below to read more. Click on the arrows to scroll through the pages.
I came to Park View half-expecting to have no friends. I guess you could say elementary school wasn’t the best experience. During my time in elementary school I constantly felt like I was trying to cover up who I really was just to fit in with the “popular girls,” and I ultimately knew that was wrong, but I didn’t bother to change. That was, until I met people that looked like me and liked the same things as me, a more diverse community where I felt like I didn’t need to pretend I was some sort of athlete that only wore expensive athletic clothes.
The Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education Justice (ARISE) stands in support of House Bill #HB5084, which proposes to provide schools access to a mental health curriculum…
As parents, youth, and community members deeply concerned for student safety, we are deeply troubled by the call for increased support for school resource officers. This bill denies the years of research showing that SROs not only fail to keep our students safe, but actively harm and endanger them...
“The policies and authoritative disciplines involving zero tolerance and police in schools must end. SRO’s create a hostile, tense, and uncomfortable environment for students as they are punished for having bad days, or for simply being themselves…”
The Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education Justice (ARISE) stands in full support of House Bill 6234’s proposal to “allow students to utilize 4 mental health days for mental/behavioral health concerns as an excused absence from school.”
The Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education Justice (ARISE) stands in full support of House Bill 5959’s proposal to allow those who are at least sixteen (16) years of age to register to vote and to vote in school committee elections in municipalities where school committees are elected entities…
In 2022, I served as a research fellow on a report assessing the state of civic education in Rhode Island. We found that only 12% of Rhode Islanders who attend a public or middle school “definitely could” explain the rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizens. As a high schooler myself, I only recently became part of this 12%. Even though I have the privilege of attending a private high school with a challenging curriculum, by the age of 17, I still failed to identify what “civic education” meant. The failure of Rhode Island schools to create an educated citizenry is unacceptable: students should not have to look outside of their own schools to receive an education in civics.
As parents, youth, and community members deeply concerned for our children’s safety, we are deeply troubled by House Bill 8310, which calls for “two (2) school resource officers [to be] placed at every public school in the State of Rhode Island….
We, the parents, youth, educators, and community organizations signed below, thoroughly condemn House Bill 8318 for recklessly endangering Providence children in the interest of appeasing pro-gun lobbyists and generating profits for institutionalized policing…
As parents, youth, and community members deeply concerned for our children’s safety, we are deeply troubled by the surveillance measures put forth by House Bill 8329, which are proven to be not only ineffective, but endanger our youth, lower rates of academic achievement, and detracts needed funding from programs and facilities that actually protect and help students...
The Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education Justice (ARISE) wholeheartedly condemns the proposal of House Bill 7539, which unequivocally puts our youth – especially transgender and BIPOC youth – at risk of significant harm…
