Media Coverage

Sometimes PSU just can’t escape the paparazzi. Here are some news stories that highlight our work throughout the years.

1.30.26

RI businesses close, students plan walkout for National Shutdown/ICE Out protests

Source: Providence Journal

1.30.26

Thousands of Rhode Island students walk out as part of a nationwide shutdown and general strike

Source: Steve Ahlquist

1.30.26

Students in Rhode Island walk out to join ICE protests

Source: Turn to 10

1.29.26

RI organizations to take part in national shutdown calling on officials to abolish ICE

Source: Rhode Island Current

11.11.25

SNAP Back Rally: Students highlight impact of benefit cuts and demand economic justice and food security

Source: Steve Ahlquist

02.26.25

Providence Students oppose non-renewal notices to non-binary educators

Source: Steve Ahlquist

11.12.24

Providence students march on City Hall to demand full funding

Source: Steve Ahlquist

11.4.24

‘Do not punish kids’: Providence students demand more school funding amid threatened cuts to sports, transportation

Source: The Boston Globe

10.24.24

Providence students, school board candidates, activists discuss priorities for upcoming school board elections

Source: The Brown Daily Herald

10.24.24

The "Students Ignite Change: Shaping Our Schools Candidate Forum" focused on real policy issues

Source: Steve Ahlquist

06.28.22

Overturn of Roe V. Wade Statement

06.19.22

Opinion/Providence Student Union Board: To stay safe, RI schools need more counselors, not more cops

Source: The Providence Journal

06.16.22

Educators, advocates and students say ‘No’ to SROs in and out of House Finance hearing

Source: UpriseRI

06.15.22

Crisis in the Classroom: Civics education coming to Rhode Island following lawsuit

Source: NBC10

06.12. 22

'Democracy in peril': Agreement seeks to bolster civics education in RI public schools

Source: The Providence Journal

11.24.21

Providence Youth Created a Mural Imagining More Public Fruit Trees and Housing, and Less Police

Source: UpriseRI

05.01.21

Students march on State House to demand counselors, not cops in Providence public schools

Source: UpriseRI

04.30.21

Students walkout to demand counselors, not cops in Providence public schools

Source: UpriseRI

06.12.20

PSU respectfully declines Governor’s invitation for assembly.

06.03.20

PSU’s statement following the murder of George Floyd

12.12.19

“Rhode Island lawsuit: Students sue for the right to learn civics”

Source: Christian Science Monitor

9.10.19

“Schools in Providence are poised for a state takeover. Can the district’s decade-old student union seize the moment?”

Source: The 74million

04.28.19

Rhode Island Teens Fight for Civics Education | The Daily Show

Source: The Daily Show

12.12.18

“Providence Student Union protest demands removing police officers from schools”

Source: The Providence Journal

11.28.18

“The students suing for a constitutional right to education”

Source: The Atlantic

11.28.18

“Are civics lessons a constitutional right? This student is suing for them.”

Source: The New York Times

3.15.18

“Students speak out at the Providence walkout to end gun violence”

Source: UpriseRI

10.25.17

“Providence Student Union calls for removal of Assistant Principal after incident at Central High School”

Source: UpriseRI

1.20.17

“Providence students defend plan to walk out of class during inauguration”

Source: WPRI

3.14.16

“Student teaches Sunshine Week lesson on press freedom”

Source: The Providence Journal

1.20.16

“Providence students seek ethnic studies curriculum”

Source: WPRI

6.8.15

“How a group of students took on the city of Providence — and won”

Source: WPRI

4.29.15

“Providence students to R.I. lawmakers: Repair our schools”

Source: The Providence Journal

2.14.13

Students oppose test in ‘zombie’ rally

Source: The Brown Daily Herald