Committee tables RIDE variance request for Welk pre-K integrated classrooms for one week

Mar 12, 2025

The committee voted to table a request to send a temporary variance to the Rhode Island Department of Education allowing Welk to use additional peer spots and temporarily exceed required integrated-classroom ratios; members cited compliance, service-capacity and cost concerns and asked for more information ahead of a March 19 special meeting.

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The Warwick School Committee on March 11 voted to table for one week a request to send a temporary variance to the Rhode Island Department of Education that would allow Welk programs to use available peer spots and temporarily exceed state-mandated integrated-classroom ratios.

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