Chairs seen stacked on top of desks in a hallway at the Providence Career & Technical Academy. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)
On Monday, Rhode Island education officials were still waiting to learn when they’d get federal education grant funding for the current fiscal year.
In total, the frozen funds span five buckets of federal money, Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) spokesperson Victor Morente said in an email Monday. He added that RIDE had still not received grant notifications as of Monday, but had been notified on Friday that the grants were being unfrozen beginning the week of July 28…