After more than five years under state control, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley is asking state lawmakers to force the Department of Education to return the city's schools to local control. Meanwhile, during the recent drop in temperatures,

Mayor Brett Smiley said he plans to ask the General Assembly to raise the city's taxes above the 4% threshold.

When is the right time for the state to return Providence public schools to local control? Mayor Brett Smiley says this summer. Smiley outlined his administration’s housing and education proposals for reporters at a City Hall briefing Monday,

In unveiling his legislative agenda for the upcoming General Assembly session, Mayor Brett Smiley said, "The time is now" for returning the school system.

The mayor is taking his demand to the General Assembly, seeking legislation to end the state takeover two years early.