Inclusive public schools where all Charlotte-Mecklenburg children reach their potential
Assignment
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 …
May 26, 2015 Demographer Jim Johnson from UNC Chapel Hill met with the Board of Education and walked them through a presentation he called “Disruptive Demographics and North Carolina’s Education Challenges.” The trends he identified are both national, state and local, and his presentation is lengthy and complex. It helped launch the school board’s examinination Read More …
May 26, 2015 “We would not get a fully accurate response if we asked parents why they choose to go to charter schools, let’s put it on the table here, because they will not say the real reasons that they’re going. They’re going to say it’s because it has a big red bow on it Read More …
May 20, 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. The Board today revises its approach to student assignment to place excellent educational outcomes for every student at the center of the district’s Read More …
May 14, 2015 A second meeting of the CMS Policy Committee this morning finished the first review of the district’s guiding principles for student assignment. Most of the discussion from board members present revolved around how the principles have created schools that are not giving children a quality education. There were no complaints that the Read More …
May 5, 2015 Steve Crump, above left, led author Frye Gaillard and researcher Amy Hawn Nelson through an evening program devoted to the legacy of Swann v. Mecklenburg. That case challenged the 1960s pattern of racial segregation in student assignment in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. The case led to a U.S. Supreme Court decison in 1971 that Read More …
April 29, 2015 Four members CMS Board of Education Wednesday set in motion the 16-month review that will look at whether to change the way North Carolina’s second-largest school district assigns children to school. Existing rules allow small annual changes to accommodate the opening (or closing) of schools and other narrow matters. But the rules Read More …
June 16, 2014 In a school district in which no racial or ethnic group accounts for a majority of the students, more than half of Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools, and more than half of schools in each grade span, draw a majority of their students from one race. CMS continues to be the district that made resegregation 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 …