Inclusive public schools where all Charlotte-Mecklenburg children reach their potential
Nov. 10, 2011 The Fellowship’s regular monthly board meeting always seems to fall two days after a school board election, so it has been a tradition for the Fellowship to gather to discuss the election results and where CMS appears to be heading. This year, the Fellowship invited to the meeting all the board candidates Read More …
Nov. 8, 2011 Today’s victory by Ericka Ellis-Stewart, Mary McCray and Tim Morgan closes out a long and difficult, if possibly momentous, election for the CMS Board of Education. But first let us offer a big thank-you to the host of very public-spirited people who took that step to offer themselves for election to Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Read More …
Sept. 30, 2011, from material from 26 pages originally posted on or before Sept. 30, 2011 Fourteen candidates in the 2011 election for three at-large seats on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education participated in 45-minute videotaped interviews. The interviews were conducted between Aug. 15 and Aug. 18, at the beginning of the campaign. This project Read More …
June 9, 2011 Within an hour of my hearing the news of Dr. Gorman’s departure, a retired journalist all but stuck a microphone in my face and asked what kind of person CMS needs to succeed the departing superintendent. What I said wasn’t necessarily representative of this organization, or any other. But I do hope Read More …
March 20, 2011 “Segregation is an educational and social disease. Sometimes its impacts are ameliorated for a while in some places, but the broad relationship is clear and strong. “Isolation by poverty, language, and ethnicity threatens the future opportunities and mobility of students and communities excluded from competitive schools, and increasingly threatens the future of Read More …
Feb. 20, 2011 Circles mark the K-8 and middle-school attendance areas covered by the CMS Focus School initiative for 2011-12. That program has given teachers additional resources, and given principals additional teachers, better to meet the needs of the high-needs children assigned to these schools. During the current budget preparations, some of those funds are Read More …
Feb. 8, 2011 On Bright Beginnings: Delayed until Feb. 8 meeting Voting to delay: Eric Davis, Rhonda Lennon, Richard McElrath, Kaye McGarry, Trent Merchant, Tim Morgan, Tom Tate, Joyce Waddell. Delayed until regular budget cycle in April Voting to delay: Eric Davis, Rhonda Lennon, Richard McElrath, Trent Merchant, Tim Morgan, Tom Tate, Joyce Waddell, Joe Read More …
Feb. 1, 2011 Our commitment is to a student assignment plan that strengthens student achievement, not weakens it. That strengthens communities, not weakens them. That strengthens parental involvement, not weakens it. These are, again, goals shared by every member of our board, and every citizen of good will in Wake County. It is my hope Read More …
Jan. 27, 2011 … treat every child in the community like they were your own child.” – Supt. Peter Gorman in Jan. 27, 2011 interview with qcitymetro.com The quote above was taken from an interview by Glenn Burkins in QCityMetro. The original article has dropped off that website, but the text below was retrieved Read More …
Jan. 9, 2011 To the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community: Have we in a year’s time lost 8% or 10% of our interest in our children? Do we think 8% or 10% less of their future as citizens of the world? Tuesday’s school board meeting promises to be dominated by discussion of how to take another 8% to Read More …