Who We Are

The Central Falls District-Charter Compact is a collaborative partnership of the Central Falls School District and six charter school organizations serving Central Falls students and families. The charter school organizations include:

• The Learning Community (K-8)
• The International Charter School (K-5)
• The Segue Institute for Learning (6-8)
• Blackstone Academy  Charter School (9-12)
• Blackstone Valley Prep: A Rhode Island Mayoral Academy (K-2; 5-6)
• Rhode Island Mayoral Academies

Our Vision

The vision of the Central Falls District-Charter Compact is to work together to jointly tackle the challenge of college and career readiness in an aligned pre-kindergarten-16 system. The Compact seeks to create a system of excellent public school options for the families of the community by sharing expertise, leveraging joint resources, creating efficiencies of scale, and developing a common advocacy coalition for educational excellence.

Our Work

The Compact is currently working together to propose collaboration in the following areas:

• Human capital strategies
• Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics Education (STEAM) and other innovative learning strategies
• Special education collaboration
• Parent engagement, education, and advocacy

District-Charter Compacts Nationwide

In September 2011, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recognized Central Falls as one of 11 districts nationwide with the most promising district-charter compacts, making it eligible to apply for a Gates Foundation grant, to be announced in the fall of 2012.             

Compact Documents

District-Charter Compact 8.29.11

District-Charter Compact with Work Plan