In Providence, Rhode Island, public schools have long faced scrutiny from low test scores

in crumbling buildings to persistent challenges communicating with bilingual families.

But as Ben Burke of Ocean State Media reports, one city elementary school is pushing back against that narrative thanks to a team of young reporters.

Should it be the goodbye and then a fun fact or should it be the fun fact and then a

goodbye? Like it seems like a little thing, but it's not when we start to put the video together.

Goodbye, fun fact, then joke with it. Yes. Does everyone agree with that? Yeah.

At the Alfred Lima Elementary School, the newsday begins with a morning meeting. The journalists,

all fifth graders, talk with their publisher,

a school librarian about what they want to cover on the weekly show.

You guys had mentioned on our calendar up there, what day was National Pretzell Day?

Before heading out to report the story, they put on their press passes and test their equipment.

On a typical news day, the news crew roams the hallways looking for teachers and students to interview.

This week, they're reporting on media literacy.

Three, two, one.

Hello, guys. We're here with...

Ms. Gonzalez.

And we're going to ask her two questions for take about media literacy month.

Back in the newsroom, the fifth graders write scripts and tape the show in two languages in front of a green screen.

Are we ready?

Yeah.

All right. In three.

Two.

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