Always Learning Rhode Island is to support and advance learning for Rhode Island youth by augmenting the 180 days of the traditional school schedule to provide opportunities for year-round out-of-school learning in homes and in the community.
The Vision
Always Learning Rhode Islandis that Rhode Island will be a nationally recognized model of public education innovation which, by creating broad public consensus on the importance of out-of-school learning, will assure that Rhode Island’s educational outcomes will be among the very best in the nation by 2030.
The ACN program is funded by a federal grant (the Rethink grant), and all open enrollment pre-registrations (i.e., any pre-registrations after the lottery) are subject to RIDE’s approval, consistent with the terms of the grant. The ACN program makes a proportional number of seats available for homeschool, non-public school (private, parochial, etc.) and public school students based on the ratio of non-public to public school students in Rhode Island. At this point in the pre-registration process, non-public and homeschool students have reached the maximum capacity in the ACN program for the 2022-2023 school year.