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The results on the Rhode Island Comprehensive Assessment System exam tend to get all the attention locally, but let’s face it: there’s a reason that a great episode of “Saved by the Bell” was about SAT scores (no way Zack Morris actually got a 1502, by the way).
The Rhode Island Department of Education unveiled the results on both the RICAS (for students in elementary and middle school) SAT (for high school) last week, and there were some good stories to tell at the high school level.
Here’s a breakdown of the high schools that saw at least 75 percent of students meet or exceed expectations in English Language Arts or 65 percent meet or exceed expectations in math.
English Language Arts
✅ Classical High School: 90.9 percent
✅ East Greenwich High School: 87.3 percent
✅ Barrington High School: 87.1 percent
✅ Mt. Hope High School: 83.3 percent
✅ Narragansett High School: 82.6 percent
✅ North Smithfield High School: 79.2 percent
✅ South Kingstown High School: 79.0 percent
✅ Portsmouth High School: 77.4 percent
✅ Jacqueline M. Walsh School for the Performing and Visual Arts: 77.1 percent
✅ North Kingstown Senior High School: 76.6 percent
✅ Exeter-West Greenwich Regional High School: 75.5 percent
Math
✅ Barrington High School: 70.7 percent
✅ East Greenwich High School: 70.3 percent
✅ Classical High School: 68.1 percent
🤔 So you think you're a Rhode Islander...
Can you name the former statewide elected official who was born in what was then known as the Hawaiian Kingdom?
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The Globe in Rhode Island
⚓ Days after dropping out of the race for Rhode Island attorney general, state Representative Robert Craven Sr. has resigned as chair of the House Judiciary Committee and will not seek re-election next year. Read more.
⚓ Creating a medical school at the University of Rhode Island is “both viable and necessary to meet the state’s pressing healthcare needs,” including the shortage of primary care doctors, a consulting firm is telling a state commission. Read more.
⚓ A recent study from researchers at Brown University suggests children are getting less sleep than their parents realize – and less sleep than they should. Read more.
⚓ The Rhode Island AFL-CIO and the Rhode Island Center for Justice on Monday sued the US Environmental Protection Agency, challenging the Trump administration’s decision to kill the $7 billion Solar for All program. Read more.
⚓ Police and residents in East Providence are mourning the loss of retired K9, Chiko, who died Friday night, according to officials. Read more.
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Also in the Globe
⚓ Democrats believe health care is an issue that resonates with a majority of Americans as they demand an extension of subsidies in exchange for their votes to reopen the shuttered U.S. government. But it is also one of the most intractable issues in Congress — and a real compromise amid the government shutdown will not likely be easy, or quick. Read more.
⚓ The FBI’s Boston division ranked third in a nationwide crackdown on violent crime over the summer, netting 404 arrests in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Rhode Island, the agency said Monday. Read more.
⚓ This year marked “a great step forward” for the Red Sox, team president Sam Kennedy said, after a busy and productive offseason highlighted by Garrett Crochet and Alex Bregman, but featuring smaller-turned-massive acquisitions such as Carlos Narváez and Aroldis Chapman, yielded more wins and a playoff berth. Read more.
⚓ Lieutenant Governor Sabina Matos is moderating a discussion with Luis A. Miranda Jr., at Rhode Island College at 5:30 p.m. Miranda's son is Lin-Manuel Miranda.
⚓ The URI Honors Colloquium continues at 5:30 p.m. with a speech from Fort Lewis College Heather J. Shottonill, who will discuss the history of higher education with Indigenous communities and reframe approaches to better serve Indigenous students. You can watch here.
⚓ The special legislative commission on land use is meeting at 1:30 p.m. Here's the agenda.
🏆 Pop quiz answer
Attorney General Robert Burbank was born in Koloa in 1856
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