Inclusive public schools where all Charlotte-Mecklenburg children reach their potential
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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 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 …
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 …
Jan. 13, 2012
Jan. 12, 2012 Download the report here.
Feb. 20, 2011 Circles mark the K-8 and middle-school attendance areas covered by the CMS Focus School initiative for 2011-12. That program has given teachers additional resources, and given principals additional teachers, better to meet the needs of the high-needs children assigned to these schools. During the current budget preparations, some of those funds are Read More …
April 12, 2010 Have we given up on boys’ education?
Feb. 28, 2010 Leave 3,804 Children Behind: The Video
June 25, 2009 Chart based on preliminary EOG scores tracks various manifestations of the achievement gap.