Angel Taveras served a four-year term as the mayor of Providence, R.I. beginning in Jan. 3, 2011, the first Dominican-American to be elected mayor in the state. In 2014 he lost the Democratic primary when he ran for governor. Taveras, a lawyer and former Housing Court judge, replaced David N. Cicilline, who was elected to Congress in Rhode Island's 1st District. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Georgetown Law School.
Angel TaverasSays Gina Raimondo's "venture capital firm secured a secret no-bid contract funded by taxpayers."
"If you look at what we’ve done over the last several years, the crime rate has actually gone down in [Providence] and . . .…
"Providence graduation rates are up."
I turned "a $110 million deficit into a $1.6 million surplus for our city."
"In Connecticut and New York, students at Achievement First schools consistently outperform city and statewide averages."
The Providence teacher contract "is one of the longest in the country."
Providence teachers "can go five or six years without an evaluation."