Will Dan McKee sacrifice Rhode Island’s children to save his career?

In pre-K, a young Claire wowed her mother, DeNeil, by sounding out letters before her first day in kindergarten.

DeNeil, like any mother, wanted her daughter to soar.

But Claire’s teachers in the Providence Public School District stuck to the curriculum despite DeNeil’s best efforts.

Claire struggled to read in her first and second grades. […] ...