COVENTRY, R.I. (WJAR) — As students across Rhode Island head back to school, districts are preparing for more than a new year of learning. For Coventry schools, that includes efforts to prevent vaping among students.
Four vape detectors are now installed in the bathrooms at Coventry Middle School, where district leaders say students often begin experimenting with vaping.
“Kids start at the middle school typically, and that would be the place to get ahead of it,” said Coventry Superintendent Don Cowart…