Rhode Island Department of Education
Garnering a record-breaking amount of public feedback on RI education policy
Challenge
In 2022 the Rhode Island Department of Education needed to collect and record significant public input for their proposed “Readiness-Based Graduation Requirements to Reimagine High School,” a major curriculum change in State regulations.
Approach
SCS worked with RIDE to ensure ample opportunity for public comment, with an aggressive schedule of nine public hearings between March 22nd and May 5th, 2022. SCS worked closely with RIDE staffers to plan each public hearing, ensuring that those hearings had appropriate support, and that public comment was accurately recorded and coded for statistical analysis.
Outcome
Under SCS’s guidance, there was record-breaking public comment (398 comments), making the proposed regulations the most-commented upon regulatory changes in RIDE’s recorded experience.
SCS's 2022 digital marketing efforts resulted in 627,817 impressions, reached 182,956 unique users, and generated 2,402 new users to the website.
Services Rendered
Public Engagement, Project Management, Strategic Communications, Strategic Planning, Graphic Design, Digital Advertising