Morgan makes pitch for school bonds
June 9, 2015 Tim Morgan is an at-large member of the school board.
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UNC expert briefs board on ‘disruptive demographics’
May 26, 2015 Demographer Jim Johnson from UNC Chapel Hill met with the Board of Education and walked them through a presentation he called “Disruptive Demographics and North Carolina’s Education Challenges.” The trends he identified are both national, state and local, and his presentation is lengthy and complex. It helped launch the school board’s examinination Read More …
Board reviews assignment plan, identifies some issues
May 26, 2015 “We would not get a fully accurate response if we asked parents why they choose to go to charter schools, let’s put it on the table here, because they will not say the real reasons that they’re going. They’re going to say it’s because it has a big red bow on it Read More …
Rewriting Guiding Principles: Draft 1
May 20, 2015 To be adopted by Dec. 8, 2015 PDF version here Parents, educators and others are invited to submit draft rewrites of the Guiding Principles for publication on these pages. The Board today revises its approach to student assignment to place excellent educational outcomes for every student at the center of the district’s Read More …
Are these the guiding principles we need?
May 14, 2015 A second meeting of the CMS Policy Committee this morning finished the first review of the district’s guiding principles for student assignment. Most of the discussion from board members present revolved around how the principles have created schools that are not giving children a quality education. There were no complaints that the Read More …
‘A Dream Again Deferred?’
May 5, 2015 Steve Crump, above left, led author Frye Gaillard and researcher Amy Hawn Nelson through an evening program devoted to the legacy of Swann v. Mecklenburg. That case challenged the 1960s pattern of racial segregation in student assignment in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. The case led to a U.S. Supreme Court decison in 1971 that Read More …
A process to re-examine student assignment begins
April 29, 2015 Four members CMS Board of Education Wednesday set in motion the 16-month review that will look at whether to change the way North Carolina’s second-largest school district assigns children to school. Existing rules allow small annual changes to accommodate the opening (or closing) of schools and other narrow matters. But the rules Read More …
Any second thoughts?
2-19-15: So you arrive at the Pearly Gates. Saint Peter is squinting at his ledger. He looks up. “Old Man Thrugbottom, your business competitor. He came by here awhile ago. It says here he paid his people dirt. He fired them when they had to take care of sick kids. He cared about his business, but Read More …
Returning our eyes to the prize
Feb. 18, 2015 Last week’s school board meeting included an update on literacy efforts within CMS. The CMS chart below at right details the crisis: At most grade levels, fewer than half of CMS students are college or career ready in reading proficiency. Chief Academic Officer Brian Schultz showed great verbal command of the process Read More …
Paris
Jan. 8, 2015