Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Public school districts across the state are speaking out against a Statehouse bill they say is designed to force them to stop fighting the state's school choice voucher program in court.

A weekday briefing from veteran Rhode Island reporters, focused on the things that matter most in the Ocean State. "You cannot educate a child that's not in the building, or a child who can't be in the building because there's a flood," said Brenda Santos, one of the research directors at the Annenberg Institute.

More than two decades ago, Orange County Public Schools faced a crisis. Our infrastructure was dilapidated, our classrooms were bursting at the seams, and we lacked the funding to build the dozens of new schools our children desperately needed.