Inclusive public schools where all Charlotte-Mecklenburg children reach their potential
June 11, 2016; first published in Educate!, March 3, 2006 Supt. Jim Pughsley said CMS is adding security associates at high schools as evidence increases of gang activity. “Some situations we are starting to face now and it’s more and more,” Pughsley told the Education Budget Advisory Committee last week. “There is evidence of gangs Read More …
Taking guise of a candidate for a top schools position, longtime reformer calls for fundamental cultural change to refocus public schools on children’s needs July 9, 2016; originally published in Educate!, Aug. 29, 2004 Friday night, Hayes Mizell delivered the following speech at a dinner at Hope Haven…. Mizell is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the National Read More …
June 9, 2016; first published in Educate! Jan. 14, 2001 Lawyer Parks Helms isn’t known for defying courts. So it may have given some folks pause when, in his State of the County address Jan. 9, Helms said that Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s pupil assignment solution “must not be one that is forced upon us by a court.” Read More …
June 8, 2016 Starting Thursday, the Fellowship’s board will be on hiatus for the summer. This site may be just as active, or more likely less so, as members disperse. But to keep the doors open and thoughts about community issues flowing, we’ll on a sporadic basis be recycling material previously published by the Fellowship. Read More …
5-29-16: The June 2 CMS Policy Committee meeting will NOT explore student assignment issues. The agenda shows discussion of revisions in policies JBA about harassment of students by employees; GBA on equal opportunity in hiring; KBC on parent involvement and JJJ on extracurricular activity eligibility. Some of the revisions appear designed to bring CMS policy in Read More …
5-16-16: “Both racial and poverty segregation create educational challenges for students and are related to unequal opportunity. Many schools are affected by both at the same time in a pattern our reports have called double segregation. When students are socialized in schools in which few students have benefited from the advantages and power that middle class Read More …
May 12, 2016 The morning’s Policy Committee meeting was a slog through the details of how CMS assigns students. With a consultant on how to revise student assignment identified but not yet under contract, much of the discussion was about what must wait for discussion with the consultant. But Supt. Ann Clark, partiicipating by phone, Read More …
April 14, 2016; Agenda handout In a couple of weeks there will clearly be much more said about this subject, but today Supt. Ann Clark announced at a CMS Board Policy Committee meeting that she would clarify later this month how the bond issue she wants on the ballot in November is key to finding Read More …