Steph Machado

4 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Steph Machado

PROVIDENCE — The website is down, the office is vacant, and the president was just suspended. The election for new officers was canceled, and has not yet been rescheduled. That’s the current state of the 112-year-old Providence branch of the NAACP, the national civil rights organization that fights for diversity and equal rights for people of color.

1 month ago | wpri.com | Kim Kalunian |Steph Machado |Melanie DaSilva

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - Rhode Island has finally decreased its long waitlist for infants and toddlers who need early intervention after state leaders put more money into the system. Boston Globe Rhode Island reporter Steph Machado joined Kim Kalunian on 12 News at 4 to discuss how the federally mandated program, which is run by the state at no cost to families, was struggling for years. Watch the full interview in the player above.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Steph Machado

Federal law requires children to have an initial evaluation within 45 days of a referral, but since 2021, hundreds of children have waited months on end — even up to a year — to even be evaluated. Since children are no longer eligible once they turn 3, some aged out before they ever got off the waitlist. A weekday briefing from veteran Rhode Island reporters, focused on the things that matter most in the Ocean State.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | John Hilliard |Steph Machado

If you’re a member of a New England family that filed a civil rights complaint against a school that is being investigated by the US Department of Education, the Boston Globe would like to speak to you. We would also be interested in speaking with Ed Department civil rights attorneys who were laid off by the Trump administration, or attorneys who are still employed by the Office for Civil Rights. We will not publish any information without contacting you and receiving your permission.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Amanda Milkovits |Steph Machado

The two town halls were the first the Rhode Island congressmen have held since President Trump took office in January. Congressman Gabe Amo, left, and Attorney General Peter Neronha speak to hundreds of people at a town hall event on Thursday in East Providence, R.I.Steph MachadoMany of the Rhode Islanders at Magaziner’s event said they were afraid that democracy was dying, and they wanted to know how to stop it.