Inclusive public schools where all Charlotte-Mecklenburg children reach their potential
Text Cache for use in event the direct link to the website below is unavailable http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/your-schools-blog/article49222495.html With little change, can CMS board break through inertia? Most Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board members are happy with leadership, but admit they’ve stalled on major issues Mary McCray, back for fourth year as chair, must chart steps for superintendent search Read More …
Dec. 10, 2015 Meeting materials here Listen in as Policy Committee chair Tom Tate tries to summarize a discussion of goals for student assignment that members had offered at today’s committee meeting: The four “goals,” as the policy committee left them Thursday: Reduce high-poverty concentrations in schools. Do no harm or minimize harm. Don’t assign children Read More …
Nov. 27, 2015 Here’s a question you can ponder while you’re sitting quietly digesting the turkey leftovers: Do you remember having a teacher you really connected with and learned so much from? Were there others in the class that did not have such an experience? Or were you the one who didn’t think much of Read More …
Nov. 12, 2015 In the video of this meeting is a striking exchange, just a little over 3 minutes long, that goes to the heart of the fears and anxieties gripping portions of the public as the CMS Board of Education wrestles with how it assigns children to school. The prime speakers are, first, District Read More …
Text Cache for use in event the direct link to the website below is unavailable http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/cms-leaders-discuss-student-assignment-schools/npLzw/ By Stephanie Maxwell CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools discussed a controversial plan Thursday to reassign thousands of students. The controversial decision that could affect thousands of students across the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district could be made by the community. The Read More …
Text Cache for use in event the direct link to the website below is unavailable http://www.twcnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2015/11/12/cms-board-of-ed-drafting-surveys-about-student-assignment.html By Yoojin Cho Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 04:07 PM EST CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education is asking for the public’s input, as they work on revising its student assignment policy. “It doesn’t matter where you live in Read More …
Text Cache for use in event the direct link to the website below is unavailable http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/article44494332.html Charlotte-Mecklenburg panel drops controversial boundary option, works on public poll Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board members say they won’t create diversity through massive rezoning CMS plans a public poll in January on importance of diversity vs. schools close to home School Read More …
Nov. 9, 2015 There has been much talk about reading by third grade, and about reading readiness. What members of the Swann board, meeting Oct. 8, wanted to know was: What does CMS already know about how its students are prepared for reading? When does it know what it knows? And with whom does it Read More …
Nov. 7, 2015 Matt Ellenwood talked about the Obama adminstration’s guidance letter on how race, socioeconomics and other factors could be used as factors in student assignment. Tom Tate talked about how school board members want more people talking about the decisions ahead on student assignment and a new superintendent. And Roslyn Micklelson laid out Read More …
Text Cache for use in event the direct link to the website below is unavailable https://www.ednc.org/2015/10/26/cms-reviewing-guiding-principles-for-student-assignment/ CMS reviewing “Guiding Principles” for student assignment by Adam Rhew on October 26, 2015 As Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools march toward a 2016 full of discussion about the types of campuses students attend and the boundaries that define where they are Read More …