Neil Steinberg

Leadership required!

NEW: Pawtucket will extend its elementary school day by 10 min starting next week, and will delay summer vacation as it races to make up for lost learning from having too short of a school day It’s expected to cost about $255,000 to pay teachers + buses bostonglobe.com/2026/05/20/met…

@toni_d_akin @StephMachado Where w as the oversight in Pawtucket?? New high school is nice but what goes on ( or doesn’t) inside makes a much larger impact.

@StephMachado Unknown number of years? Pay for it by extending the current school year? A rolling deficit, and RIDE is just catching up with it now.

NEW: For an unknown number of years, the elementary school day in Pawtucket has been too short The school district is in hot water with the R.I. Dept. of Ed and has to fix it for this school year, a potentially costly predicament bostonglobe.com/2026/05/18/met…

Voluntary healthcare cost limits aren’t working. Should Rhode Island’s insurers face sanctions? rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/05/18/vol…

Inexcusable !!

Pawtucket is already in a budget deficit, and now has to contend with paying teachers to work extra days this school year. Specifics are still being worked out, but the school committee chair acknowledges it could cost north of $1 million.

A new internal report at Yale University carries a message for the campus: check liberal bias, introduce more merit in admissions and reduce preferences for legacies. on.wsj.com/4epuRmr

@AlexaGagosz @Eli_Sherman @Globe_RI @BostonGlobe Good luck Alexa and thanks for all your good reporting in R.I.!

So some personal news… In May, I’ll be leaving @Globe_RI to join the @BostonGlobe's business desk in Boston to cover retail, the consumer economy, and restaurants. After more than five years in Rhode Island, it’s bittersweet, but I’m excited for my next challenge. 1/6🧵

@MarieForRI Well said!

As the house Rep who brought the bill, I will agree it's not that simple. This school will not fix the problem- not immediately. We must wrestle with immediate solutions URGENTLY. However, one thing RI often lacks, and what gets us in trouble, is a lack of long range vision... 10, 20 year plans for development. (We spend so much time stabilizing our crises, we forget that stabilization is a short-term fix) This school project is a ten year lift... and it won't help at all if we do not also address the underlying causes. Now. I brought the bill because I want it in the light and open to debate- there are a lot of stakeholders here and we can't treat this as a magic bullet. If we don't build a school at URI, we must negotiate w Brown med to produce at least 20-25 RI resident medical doctors. This is the cheaper, faster way forward. However, a med school at URI can pull in advanced nursing, dental, even veterinary education, as many other "health care science schools" do. Regardless of how this lands- ProJo video is accurate. We are placing too many international docs and many of our own are left behind at the national level. Those who find residency can't find placement in RI, and if they do, they don't/won't stay following residency. Why? Because we treat them worse than other states and it just no longer makes sense for them to be here. That's the awful truth of it. Who hurts? The people of RI will be hurt the most if primary care and provider solutions are not accomplished THIS YEAR. So I propose consideration of the school while doing the other nearly-too-late, out-of-time, urgent, critical and necessary work of grappling w our primary care crisis. I have several bills this session that docs and NPs say will help save them. I have colleagues who also are working toward solutions. The patient is critical. We must get to work. .

NEIT partners with Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England to hold workshops for members pbn.com/neit-partners-… via @ProvBusNews One of many @neit partnerships and collaborations helping to build the workforce in RI!

@IanDonnis Great news for Farm Fresh and R.I.! Janet is a pro.

Farm Fresh RI welcomes former DEM Director/NOAA official Janet Coit as executive director farmfreshri.org/new-executive-…

Lots of great memories to watch!

While working on the Benny's doc, we put together this retro music video featuring the ageless Steve Smith & The Naked. I think it punctuates the feelings we all have for Benny’s, obviously, and all the other special places and times gone by. Enjoy. vimeo.com/1172274310/230…

@TheStoryShorey @socaasanti Thanks for all your dedicated and professional hard work.

I mean every word.

@JoeShekarchi Thanks for your continued leadership to meet the housing needs of all Rhode Islanders!

Today I announced my sixth package of housing legislation. Thank you to everyone who joined me, and to everyone who has partnered with me in this effort. More info about the legislation is online: rilegislature.gov/pressrelease/_… Watch the news conference online: capitoltvri.cablecast.tv/show/11768

Rhode Island’s own Sophia Gorriaran with a collegiate Record!!

URI board of trustees supports public medical school pbn.com/uri-board-of-t… via @ProvBusNews Great to be see URI being proactive and showing leadership to provide a good long term solution to expand primary care focused on Rhode Islanders! @universityofri

Watch now on WPRI 12+: The Pawtucket mayoral candidate on his primary challenge against Don Grebien; plus, the General Assembly's lone independent lawmaker. @timwhiteri @tednesi wpri.com/news/newsmaker…

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