Inclusive public schools where all Charlotte-Mecklenburg children reach their potential
Dec. 11, 2014 Two conversations at the Fellowship’s meeting this morning bore on current topics of public interest. Procedural oversight CMS board member Eric Davis continues to suggest publicly that the school board hire outside counsel to examine due-process questions raised by the resignation of Supt. Heath Morrison. Sadly, he may well see such narrow Read More …
Nov. 7, 2014 We used to see it in schoolhouses in the ’70s and ’80s. Some teachers lived in fear of old-school principals who could wield unchecked power on a campus while system officials were distracted by assignment and budgets and the like. This week’s resignation of Supt. Heath Morrison brought to light more fear, Read More …
Source: democracync.org Oct. 11, 2014 “Black turnout dropped by 3.7 percentage points more than white turnout in Kansas, and by 1.5 percentage points more than whites in Tennessee after voter ID laws passed. “Among 18-year-olds, turnout dropped by 7.1 percentage points more in Kansas than it did among those aged 44- to 53-year-olds in Kansas. Read More …
Aug. 15, 2014 Perhaps Ferguson, Missouri will once again bend the arc of history toward justice. After many nights of horrific conflict reminiscent of the 1960s, Highway Patrol officials walked with protesting residents Thursday, protecting them as well as signaling an end to law enforcement overreaction in the wake of the fatal shooting of an Read More …
July 24, 2014 Well, here I sit at this computer in the early morning. I attended the last monthly board meeting of the Swann Fellowship, and was not surprised to find that we have now dwindled down to three members who made the effort to come together (meet) at 7:30 in the morning, and three Read More …
July 6, 2014 “Welcome to my new page!” Heath Morrison wrote as he launched a “Heath’s Hot Topics” blog last year. “So much of my job has to do with communicating information….” In a May 2013 communication, CMS said the superintendent would “share his observations, his thoughts on big issues and initiatives impacting our district, Read More …
June 20, 2014 “Science actually shows that when you’re struggling to solve a problem or to understand a concept, you’re forming new pathways and connections in your brain. “So struggling isn’t a bad thing. It is not a sign of weakness – in fact, it’s a sign of growth. It’s a sign that you’re expanding Read More …
June 16, 2014 In a school district in which no racial or ethnic group accounts for a majority of the students, more than half of Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools, and more than half of schools in each grade span, draw a majority of their students from one race. CMS continues to be the district that made resegregation Read More …
June 1, 2014 Our May 15 article, “Judge Manning issues a report on ‘the reading problem’ ” prompted a few inquiries after a shorter version of it was published on the Viewpoint page of The Charlotte Observer on May 20. We’ll share those inquiries and our responses below. None of the inquiries, however, even took Read More …
May 15, 2014 N.C. Superior Court Judge Howard Manning’s May 5 report on N.C. education is a blunt reminder that North Carolina is failing to educate its children. The message can be graphically displayed as in the charts that accompany this article. Manning’s report is full of test data. He argues that in most cases Read More …