PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 30 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release: More than twenty years after a precedent-setting court victory finding that Brown University violated federal Title IX law by engaging in gender-based discrimination in the school's athletics program, legal representatives who secured an agreement requiring gender equity for those programs have returned to court, alleging the school is breaking that agreement. In a motion   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 1 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release: In the absence of legislative action, and with only 10 weeks until Rhode Island's September 8 primary, 16 organizations concerned about voting rights are urging state officials to take "immediate executive actions" to "avoid some of the problems we saw on June 2nd." In letters addressed to Gov. Gina Raimondo, Secretary of State Nellie M. Gorbea and the Rhode Island Board of  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 3 -- The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, a journal that says it focuses on the initiation, formulation and implementation of health policy and analyzes the relations between government and health, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2020 edition: Promise, Performance, and Litigation: * Ten Years Later: Reflections on Critics' Worst-Case Scenarios for the Affordable Care Act * ACA Litigation: Politics Pursued through Oth  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 1 -- Mathematics of Computation, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features numerical analysis, computational discrete mathematics, number theory, algebra and combinatorics from the American Mathematical Society, published research articles, including the following topics, in its July 2020 edition: * Agglomeration-based massively parallel non-overlapping additive Schwarz preconditioner for high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods on polytopic grids * Analog t  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Afterschool Alliance issued the following news release: The New York Life Foundation in partnership with the Afterschool Alliance announced $1.35 million in new grants to support middle school youth during the out-of-school time (OST) hours to 26 youth development organizations in Alabama, Arizona, California (6), Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida (3), Georgia (2), Idaho, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York (2), Ohio (2), Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and  more