On Wednesday first-term Providence mayor Jorge Elorza addressed the city to present his proposed budget for fiscal year 2016. His speech focused on efficient government, economic growth, educational investment, and no new taxes.
Read the mayor's full speech below  The Rhode Island Senate has approved legislation to require individuals convicted of murder to spend more time behind bars before being eligible for parole.
Introduced by Sen. Leonidas P. Raptakis (D-Dist. 33, Coventry, East Greenwich, West Greenwich), the bill, 2015-S 0132A, would require individuals convicted of first- or second-degree murder who have not been sentenced to a life term to serve at least 50 percent of a sentence prior to being eligible for parole. 
The American Red Cross is committing an initial million dollars to the Nepal relief operation where hundreds of thousands of families are in dire need after last weekend's devastating earthquake. EXTENT OF DESTRUCTION STILL NOT KNOWN The earthquake has thus far claimed the lives of thousands, injuring thousands more, as casualty numbers continue to rise.
Countless families are living out in the open, having either lost their homes or being fearful of going home due to the many aftershocks. The Nepal Red Cross Society is leading the relief effort, providing first aid and search and rescue support, blood to medical facilities and support to first responders. A priority for the Nepal Red Cross has been to distribute emergency tarpaulins which provide basic shelter. 
On Wednesday, April 29, the House of Representatives passed House, Education & Welfare Chairman Joseph M. McNamara’s (D-Dist. 19, Warwick, Cranston) legislation (2015-H 5895) that permits students under 18 years of age who are attending career and technical education schools to participate in career and technical internships or teacher supervised job site training programs. The bill amends the Career and Technical Education section (Chapter. 16-45.1) of the Rhode Island General Laws.
“Before today’s vote, a student learning a trade at a technical school, by state law, was not allowed on an actual job site to learn their trade if under the age of 18. I have always found this to be such a wasted opportunity for our young future workers. A simulation in a classroom cannot compete with the educational value of on-site and hands-on job training and internships,” said Chairman McNamara. 
Rep. Aaron Regunberg joined members of the Providence Student Union along with teachers, parents and community members at a State House news conference today to call for increased funding to repair the state’s deteriorating school buildings.
Participants in the event, which was organized by the Providence Student Union, urged state leaders to end the state’s school housing aid moratorium and increase funding for school building construction and repair in the state budget. Youth from the Providence Student Union donned yellow hard hats to reflect the danger of attending crumbling schools. Students spoke of pieces of ceilings regularly falling down during class and dodging buckets of rainwater that drips through roofs all over their schools. They, along with teachers, administrators and parents, argued that in addition to posing obvious dangers, such disrepair is detrimental to learning, serving as a distraction, sometimes even interfering with students’ ability to hear their teachers clearly, and creating a dispiriting, rundown atmosphere |
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