Ask Larry and Mary: Recent Episodes
Stephanie Mandeville
Ask Larry and Mary is a production of the National Education Association Rhode Island. NEARI President Larry Purtill and Executive Director Mary Barden talk with Communications Director Stephanie Mandeville about public education, labor, politics, and current events in and around Rhode Island.
This is a Bonus Episode of Ask Larry and Mary: A Member Spotlight where we feature one of NEA Rhode Island's 12,000 members. This week, we'd like to introduce you to Scituate Paraprofessional Local President and former NEARI ESP of the Year Jamie Grissom.
RIPEC Report: Where's the Teacher Voice? Larry, Mary, Stephanie, and guest Patrick Crowley discuss the newly-released education report from the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council. On behalf of our 12,000 members including active K-12 classroom teachers, education support professionals and paraprofessionals, we remind RIPEC of NEARI’s yearslong advocacy for many of the issues they highlighted – we have even collaborated with RIPEC and other business organizations in the recent past to address several of them. Yet RIPEC has failed to include the professional educators in this report and has omitted crucial information, like the impact of budgetary cuts and mental health needs, to better understand the full scope of the multiple crises faced by public education. We talk through their recommendations one by one and add the missing educator voice in this bonus episode of Ask Larry and Mary.
Ask Larry and Mary is a production of the National Education Association Rhode Island. NEARI President Larry Purtill and Executive Director Mary Barden talk with Communications Director Stephanie Mandeville about public education, labor, politics, and current events in and around Rhode Island.
Ask Larry and Mary - This is our first episode with NEARI executive director Mary Barden. NEARI President Larry Purtill, Mary, and host Stephanie Mandeville welcome special guest NEARI Government Relations Director Patrick Crowley to discuss elections from early voting to a preview of our legislative agenda, we also get into the mental health crisis impacting our education professionals, our students, and our communities as a whole.