PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Rhode Island’s state education commissioner says the troubled Providence public school system will undergo a comprehensive financial analysis as part of its turnaround plan.
Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green announced Monday that the financial analysis will be conducted by Ernst & Young LLP. It is expected to take two to three months.
“I think by November first, we’re going to be in a good place,” she told WPRO’s Matt Allen on Monday. “We’ll start putting all those pieces together. I think by the first of January we’ll have something of a plan.”
It is being funded by the Partnership for Rhode Island, a coalition of CEOs from some of the state’s largest businesses that also funded a Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy study that found widespread dysfunction in the city’s schools. The study prompted a state takeover of the system. That serves about 24,000 students.
Tom Giordano, executive director of the partnership, said the goal of the financial analysis is to help provide a roadmap for an efficient use of resources.
