Leave 3,804 Children Behind
Feb. 28, 2010 Leave 3,804 Children Behind: The Video
Category: Assignment
Assignment
Stephen Colbert’s “The Word: Disintegration”
Jan. 21, 2010 Stephen Colbert takes note of Wake County student assignment debate. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Video Archive
Few ideas offered on student assignment
Dec. 27, 2009 The note below appeared on the front of the website for two months ending today. The note was a followup to a suggestion made on this site after an assignment hearing. In that time there were two inquiries. One was from a woman who, when we returned the call, would not respond. Read More …
Integration in K-12 Education Policy: A Conversation
Dec. 23, 2009 Reaffirming the Role of School Integration in K-12 Education Policy: A Conversation Among Policymakers, Advocates and Educators Post-Conference Statement: An Urgent Need for Federal Support The November 13 Conference of the National Coalition on School Diversity brought together more than 300 people from across the nation. This included parents, teachers, school administrators, Read More …
Harding parents protest being drawn into the Myers Park-East Meck issue
Oct. 23, 2009 The 2009 text cache of this Observer report has been brought into the page here because the original appears to be unavailable. TEXT CACHE in event that original location is unavailable http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/1015520.html Harding plea: Keep students here By Ann Doss Helms [email protected] Posted: Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 Harding University High School parent Read More …
3 more options presented to ease Eastover crowding
Oct. 8, 2009 The final round of community meetings on student assignment concluded Thursday night with CMS administrators putting three new options on the table affecting student assignment at Eastover Elementary and adjoining attendance areas. That would make six on the table, except that assignment director Scott McCully announced that Supt. Peter Gorman told him Read More …
Myers Park-East Meck assignment issues draw 600 into cafeteria
Oct. 6, 2009 The morning’s paper had announced that Myers Park High School would probably dodge the bullet of student assignment this year. But still they came. About 600 people, about a quarter of them students and to all appearances the vast majority of them from Myers Park HIgh, participated in a simulchat on options Read More …
How board handled issue is key topic at East hearing
Oct. 1, 2009 The three dozen speakers at Thursday night’s community meeting on the Myers Park High-East Meck High portion of the current student assignment debate had a few imaginative ideas. They expressed dismay that the debate pitted two strong set of parent groups “against” one another. But by far most of the comments from Read More …
Seeking community ideas on Eastover overcrowding
Sept. 29, 2009 Two school board members, a dozen or so CMS staff and a couple hundred parents gathered Tuesday night at Myers Park High School to explore options to relieve overcrowding at Eastover Elementary. Several parents chastised staff for offering short-term fixes that might leave Eastover overcrowded once again in only a few years. Read More …
School board rules out moving Cotswold area to East Meck
Sept. 22, 2009 School board District 4 member Tom Tate, left, confers with at-large member Joe White after Tuesday’s board meeting. Myers Park Elementary parents were dressed in red, while Eastover parents dressed in white as the board discussed initial options to deal with crowding at Eastover. Community meetings begin next week as CMS Read More …