In January 2004, Perry Middle School became the first school in Rhode Island
to be classified as needing corrective action under the federal Leave No Child
Behind law. Rather than impose an improvement plan, then schools Supt. Melody
A. Johnson told the Perry staff to come up with its own. This is the first of
three articles on Perry's status 18 months later.
By Journal staff writer Linda Borg.
06/17/2005
06/16/2005
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Staying after school is par at Perry school
PROVIDENCE -- Every Thursday, about two dozen
students leave Oliver Hazard Perry Middle School and walk past the pastel-colored
Hartford Park housing project, past the parking lot where the drug deals
are made, past the yellow mutt that growls and lunges at the chainlink
fence.
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06/15/2005
