PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 21 (TNStalk) -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following statement on March 20, 2023: * * * The ACLU of Rhode Island released a report today detailing the significant number of out-of-school suspensions meted out each year to Rhode Island public school elementary school students, including kindergartners, often for such minor offenses as "disrespect." The report also makes plain the "discriminatory and harmful suspension patterns"   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 23 (TNSawa) -- The American Mathematical Society issued the following news release on March 22, 2023: Luis A. Caffarelli of the University of Texas at Austin, USA, has received the 2023 Abel Prize, announced today by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo, Norway. Caffarelli has been honored for his "seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the Monge-Ampere equation  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 22 (TNStalk) -- GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders issued the following agency statement on March 21, 2023: * * * As advocates working to support LGBTQ+ youth and adults in Rhode Island, we are greatly alarmed by a comment made by Rhode Island Representative Quattrocchi at last week's hearing of the House Committee on State Government & Elections, in which he asked Representative Kislak, one of two openly LGBTQ+ representatives in Rhode Island, if she is a "pedop  more