CYCLE in the Media
CYCLE in the Media
YOUTH LEADERSHIP
Non-renewal of three nonbinary PPSD staffers’ contracts raises community skepticism
The Brown Daily Herald reported on the February 27th Providence School Council Meeting where over over 100 community members showed in person and were directed to sit in an overflow room that projected screens displaying a livestream of the meeting. The meeting lasted over four hours. OSPVD was present and represented.
Providence ABC 6 also covered this meeting,watch a video breakdown here.
2/27/2025
OurSchoolsPVD Envisioning a Youth-Led Future
Rhode Island PBS and Rhode Island Current picked up the work of the OurSchoolsPVD “Envisioning a Youth-Led Future.” This event, attended by over100 Providence students and community members, included a youth-led political education session on the state takeover of PPSD and two rounds of breakout sessions for students to share their experiences in schools. Youth leaders hope to see the experiences and priorities of current PPSD students set the foundation for the City’s approach to preparing for local control of Providence schools. See local coverage in links below.
12/10/2024
Working as one for educational justice
Rhode Island Foundation writes about the collaborative youth-led work of OSPVD, highlighting the community of students coming together through ARISE, PrYSM, YIA, YV, CFJ, and CYCLE.
6/3/2024
OURSCHOOLsPVD Ethnic Studies Campaign Wins!
Local RI news outlets picked up the work of the OurSchoolsPVD “Our Schools, Our History, Our Future” campaign for Ethnic Studies in Providence Public Schools. A Providence School Board resolution supporting many OSPVD campaign demands was passed unanimously in late April, and OSPVD held a rally and teach-in the following week on May 2, 2024. See the local coverage at the links below.
ABC6 coverage from May 2nd and May 3rd / NBC10 coverage from May 2nd
5/22/2024
A call for resource officer's removal after altercation with student at Mount Pleasant high
The Providence Journal cited CYCLE and the Providence Alliance for Student Safety (PASS)’s study on school discipline in the Providence Public Schools from December 2020. In response to organizations’ calling for the removal of SROs from schools, Executive Director Keith Catone stated, “This is not a new issue.”
2/15/2022
PODCAST: Disrupting power structures: Organizing youth for equity in schools
On Ethical Schools, CYCLE Executive Director Keith Catone discusses CYCLE, how to support students most affected by school policies, organizing dispositions for educators, what ethical school communities should look like, and more.
8/12/2021
RESEARCH & LEARNING
How a university will guide local K-12 equity overhaul
Roger Williams University consortium that will develop equity-oriented priorities for Providence public schools. CYCLE has launched the Schools and Communities Organizing for Racial Equity (SCORE) project to bring together a consortium that will develop equity-oriented priorities and measures to drive improvement in the Providence Public School District.
2/12/2021
When students research the inequality in their own schools
High schoolers from Rhode Island were trained to conduct their own research on the education problems they experience firsthand. As the coronavirus crisis and racial justice protests intensified last year, a group of nine Rhode Island students deeply impacted by these events channeled their reaction to the turmoil in an unusual way — research.
1/27/2021
ADVOCACY
PODCAST: EXCELLENCE, EDUCATION, REFORM, AND Revolution with keith catone
On The Dive-in-Justice Podcast with Center for Whole Communities, Delma Jackson and Dr. Shadiin Garcia explore “building ideal communities with our less than ideal selves.” For Season 2, Episode 2, Executive Director Keith Catone spoke with the hosts about radically re-envisioning equitable schooling systems that support communities to thrive.
11/19/2021
Rescue Plan Funds Give RI a Chance to Remake Education
CYCLE Executive Director, Keith Catone, published an opinion piece in the Providence Journal discussing the importance of investing federal Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds in sustainable processes that will shift our culture and education practices. He argues that programs do not bring systemic change, don’t always produce results, and can be difficult to sustain over time without ongoing funding, but processes and structures get at the heart of systemic change. Processes are cyclical, renewable and can be self-sustaining.
6/30/2021
Report: Black students are ‘disproportionately represented’ in Providence arrest data.
The Center for Youth and Community Leadership in Education at Roger Williams University is calling for the removal of school resource officers.
12/17/2020