CS4RI for School Teachers & Administrators
Computer Science for Rhode Island (CS4RI) set a goal to have computer science (CS) taught in every public school in the state by December 2017. In 2015, prior to the launch of CS4RI, only 1% of RI high school students enrolled in CS courses and 42 students took the AP CS exam. No students of color passed. Today RI is proud to be among the national leaders in CS education with CS offered in 100% of its school districts and every school in the state participating in CS4RI. Click the Snapshot of RI Schools below to see details of this growth.
Through this effort, RI has seen record adoption of new CS programs in schools around the state, tripled the number of AP programs, and achieved more than a 500% increase in the number of students taking an AP CS exam since 2015. CS4RI has trained more than 1,000 educators through free, high-quality CS professional development programs, and empowered students to earn more than 10,000 computer science college credits while still in high school at no cost to them, with 1,000 more students expected to earn college CS credit each academic year. CS4RI engaged more than 2,000 students and industry partners at each of its CS4RI Summits. In 2018, the RI Board of Education passed state CS standards for all K-12 students, as well as extensive Career and Technical Education CS standards for students wishing to pursue CS pathways in high school.
