Rhode Island’s education commissioner tells superintendents to stop assigning teachers based soley on seniority.

Dr. Edward Wing, dean of the Brown University Medical School, talks about the school’s expansion plan.

Middletown school buses sit in the yard after someone let the air out of the tires.

Full-day kindergarten could come to Dartmouth next school year, if the town meeting voters approve it this week.

There was a tea ceremony, with guests from China’s National Tea Museum, held at two local schools Wednesday.

Students at Foxboro High School will soon be given tests for alcohol.

The University of Rhode island is further relaxing rules concerning alcohol at school athletic events.

A Rhode Island high school is charging students $5 a year to park in the school parking lot.

Union officials say the mayoral academy sends the wrong message to other public schools.

New test results show that only one in four Rhode Island students is proficient in science.

Sister Jane Gerety will be inaugurated as the school’s seventh president.

The East Providence teachers union offers to resume negotiations with the School Committee.

Students at Ponaganset High School convert a vintage roadster replica to run on modern technology.

Improvements to school buildings in Providence may have to wait a year.

Members of the board of governors at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum meet with trustees of the school about the abrupt resignation of the museum director.