Statement From Providence Mayor Calling For The Resignation Of PPSD Superintendent Harrison Peters

Press release from the City of Providence:

May 19, 2021

PROVIDENCE, RI – “It’s clear Superintendent Peters must resign, and that we need new leadership in the district,” said Mayor Jorge O. Elorza. “This entire situation has been extremely disturbing. Additionally, I am beyond disappointed by the slow pace of the turnaround. RIDE promised us that this process was going to be different, but this is beginning to resemble their failed intervention in Central Falls. We brought in the state with the explicit purpose of radically reforming the PTU contract but, almost two years later, no progress has been made. Nothing is going to fundamentally change until there is a new contract and that needs to happen ASAP.”

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