Education

The Senate Education Committee Wednesday approved the last of 11 members for a new state board overseeing K through 12 and higher education.

The Johnson and Wales University Culinary Arts Museum is preparing to carry out a comprehensive inventory of the more than quarter-million items in its collection.  

A Providence school teacher accused of taking a teenage boy to Florida will have a lot of time on his hands when he returns to Rhode Island.  56 year old David Jones has been placed on administrative leave while the Providence School Department launches an investigation.  

David Jones may have bailed out of jail over the weekend. The Dade County, Florida  jail, where Jones had been detained on $9,000 bond, said it had no one by that name Sunday morning.