CYCLE in the Media
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: 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
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
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
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
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