Inclusive public schools where all Charlotte-Mecklenburg children reach their potential
Oct. 16, 2010 About 200 protesters walked from the Federal Courthouse to The Square to protest proposed closings of Waddell High and other westside schools. WBTV’s coverage was here, but had been taken down by 2022. And the original slideshow posted on this page after the march had also disappeared by 2022. Using the original Read More …
Oct. 14, 2010 Well, it appears that the prevailing attitude of the current school board is that Neighborhood Schools are only for the middle and upper class. The rest of this community will not only have to subject themselves to being bused to another failing school, but be bused past their own neighborhood school so Read More …
Oct, 13, 2010 Video above posted to YouTube by charpost on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. The Post’s story on the arrests at Tuesday’s CMS hearing is here. The Post’s story on Tuesday’s hearing is here.
Sept. 29, 2010 CMS student enrollment growth has slowed since the recession, and as recently as this summer CMS officlals foresaw only about 1,300 new students. Instead, at the 20th day, CMS had enrolled 1,974 more students than last year, for a total of 135,638. The full report released today is here.
Sept. 14, 2010 The statement from the Civil Rights project came under this headline: “New Study Finds Big Racial Gap in Suspensions of Middle School Students.” “Middle schools across the country,” Project coordinator Laurie Russman wrote, “are suspending children with alarming frequency, particularly in some large urban school districts, where numerous schools suspend a third Read More …
Aug. 27, 2010 More than 700 Mecklenburg-based nonprofit organizations face revocation of their tax-exempt status uniess people involved with the organizations take action by Oct. 15. The list includes PTAs, homeowner associations, religious outreach groups, fraternal organizations, medical societies, and much much more. The Mecklenburg list below is part of a listing on the IRS Read More …
Aug. 12, 2010 Tuesday night, the Board of Education hired a new CMS employee. No matter that hundreds of teachers and teacher assistants and psychologists and media specialists and skilled tradesmen had been laid off in the last few months. This employee was welcomed. This new CMS employee came on staff right after board members Read More …
Aug. 12, 2010 A sig for our times in CMS history:
Aug. 6, 2010 The “No Child Left Behind” status of some schools may figure in school-closings decisions for 2011.
April 12, 2010 Have we given up on boys’ education?