Inclusive public schools where all Charlotte-Mecklenburg children reach their potential
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July 28, 2009 U.S. Department of Education to Award Grants for Student Assignment Policies Facilitating Diversity Deadline: August 21, 2009 A notice published in the Federal Register on July 22 invites local educational agencies (school districts) to apply to the U.S. Department of Education for competitive grants to arrange and pay for technical assistance in Read More …
Feb. 28, 2009 The sheets below are downloadable here in a single PDF file.
Feb. 10, 2009 A front-page spread in the New& Observer Sunday was headlined “Whose schools work better?” The pair of stories focus on how Wake and Mecklenburg have taken different roads toward goals of of giving all children a quality education. The two counties desegregated, but at slightly different times and under very different circumstances. Read More …
Feb. 9, 2009 The economic downturn has county and school budgets under stress. Supt. Peter Gorman is talking about merging failing schools, about eliminating hundreds of teachers, raising class size, probably cutting the extra support money going into high-needs schools. And back in 1999, when the first elements of the current resegregative assignment plan first Read More …
Feb. 5, 2009 From left above, Mickey Aberman, Deacon Jones, Jim Henderlite and Araminta Johnston listen as the voice of the Century Foundation’s Richard Kahlenberg, shown at left, comes over the speakerphone Thursday morning. The conference call with the Washington-based expert focused on how to deliver on the state’s constitutional mandate to ensure that every Read More …
Jan. 16, 2009 The quote is from “Reviving the Goal of an Integrated Society: A 21st Century Challenge,” written by Gary Orfield and published Jan. 14, 2009 by The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA. The report may be downloaded here at the Civil Rights Project website, or here.
Jan. 16, 2009 Links to this material have gone bad. The list of presenters at the April 2 conference: Retrieved Jan. 16, 2009 from http://www.law.unc.edu/centers/civilrights/conferences.aspx Center for Civil Rights Conferences Registration Opens February 16, 2009 Looking to the Future: Legal and Policy Options for Racially Integrated Education in the South and the Nation University of Read More …
Aug. 14, 2008 Fellowship holds community discussion of “Education and Poverty in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.” Discussion of paper on poverty draws unusual participants – outspoken teachers Tuesday’s community discussion put on the table a lot of issues facing Charlotte-Mecklenburg. And participants and the news coverage the meeting garnered may spark broader community discussion of those issues. Read More …
Feb. 11, 2008 Click here for Feb. 10 story; PDF In this article below, a daughter of ’80s CMS board member responds to Star report, laments changes in her Charlotte schools Click here for Feb. 17 story; PDF
Feb. 23, 2007, Arkansas Times “Federal Judge Bill Wilson ended the Little Rock School District’s long entanglement with desegregation litigation Friday with a 49-page order that declared the district unitary. “The district is now free to operate how it sees fit, without court supervision and without the involvement of attorney John Walker and the Joshua Read More …