Inclusive public schools where all Charlotte-Mecklenburg children reach their potential
July 28, 2015 Below is the portion of the July 28 CMS school board meeting that deals with a presentation on an initial report on visits by officials of the National Institute for Magnet School Leadership this spring. The PDF of the initial report is here. A fuller report is due in September. The intial Read More …
July 26, 2015 The July 9 Policy Committee meeting was held without a desk separating board members and staff. But there was a great deal of distance separating them – not all of which was accounted for by the speakerphone linking three board members and the superintendent into the room. Video was made of the Read More …
July 8, 2015 A reading score in Level 1 ”denotes limited command of knowledge and skills.” Level 2 ”denotes partial command of knowledge and skills.” None of the students on Level 1 and Level 2 “are prepared for the next grade.” They’ve failed. The quotes and the data are from the N.C. Department of Public Read More …
July 5, 2015 Above is the latest revision of an old chart. The message is always the same: Schools full of economically disadvantaged children record unacceptable levels of academic achievement. The reasons keep being debated. But the reality stays the same. Two similar charts using earlier datasets are here. They date from 2004 and 2008. Read More …
June 23, 2015 Most issues going before a public meeting of the Board of Education are put on paper and arrive in board members’ hands or inboxes several days before the meeting. Tuesday’s discussion of student assignment began just minutes after papers to guide the discussion had been thrust under their noses. And the papers Read More …
June 17, 2015
June 20, 2015 When parents vote with their children’s future, what programmatic offerings sell in Charlotte-Mecklenburg? One gauge each year is the magnet lottery. The results of the first lottery this spring are here. Only about 15% of CMS parents participate in the lottery. About a fifth of elementary children enroll in magnets. If more Read More …
June 15, 2015 To be adopted by Dec. 8, 2015 PDF version here Parents, educators and others are invited to submit draft rewrites of the Guiding Principles for publication on these pages. Vision & Mission: Parents are our students’ first teachers. We build on parents’ success to guide children toward discovery of their full potential. Read More …
June 11, 2015 Board members meeting as the Policy Committee began on Thursday to home in a bit on how staff should proceed in crafting changes to the current assignment plan. Many issues are clearly weighing on their minds. Not the least of which is a report they had seen just hours earlier that shows Read More …
June 9, 2015 Araminta Johnston, shown in this clip from the school board’s Requests from the Public section of its June 9 meeting, is a co-founder of The Swann Fellowship.