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Aug. 12, 2016 From a commentary published in Educate! on April 22, 2005 in the days immediately following the resignation of Supt. James Pughsley. The community can tackle the big issues of fear and indifference – or not – as it chooses. But neither can be tackled without sacrifice. And since the discussion is about Read More …
July 1, 2016 Comments at a 2002 UNC Chapel Hill conference by john a. powell, currently a Berkeley School of Law professor, as first published in Educate!, Sept. 5, 2002: Produce a clearer vision of the public good that integration might bring, above and beyond the narrow gains from court-ordered desegregation, a University of Minnesota Read More …
June 16, 2016; first published in Educate! Feb. 3, 2002 From a report headlined “Board Retreat: 3 one-act plays; School board hears good news about goals achieved, bad news about prospects for next year’s budget – all on top of a gathering designed to ease some of its divisions” How, asked Supt. Eric Smith at Read More …
June 11, 2016; first published in Educate!, March 3, 2006 Supt. Jim Pughsley said CMS is adding security associates at high schools as evidence increases of gang activity. “Some situations we are starting to face now and it’s more and more,” Pughsley told the Education Budget Advisory Committee last week. “There is evidence of gangs Read More …
Taking guise of a candidate for a top schools position, longtime reformer calls for fundamental cultural change to refocus public schools on children’s needs July 9, 2016; originally published in Educate!, Aug. 29, 2004 Friday night, Hayes Mizell delivered the following speech at a dinner at Hope Haven…. Mizell is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the National Read More …
June 8, 2016 Starting Thursday, the Fellowship’s board will be on hiatus for the summer. This site may be just as active, or more likely less so, as members disperse. But to keep the doors open and thoughts about community issues flowing, we’ll on a sporadic basis be recycling material previously published by the Fellowship. Read More …
March 10, 2016 For all CMS K-5 and K-8 schools, the average number of students per classroom, in descending order: Hawk Ridge 22.44 Davidson 22.13 Prov. Spring 21.98 Eliz. Lane 21.74 Park Road 21.54 Polo Ridge 21.49 Washam 21.41 Elon Park 21.15 Cornelius 21.13 River Gate 21.05 Olde Prov. 20.91 Matthews 20.85 Smithfield 20.75 Sharon Read More …
March 7, 2016 For all CMS K-5 and K-8 schools, the perentage of all classrooms at a school that are outside in mobile units. Collinswood 51.1% Park Road 50.0% Albemarle Road 46.2% Windsor Park 43.5% Montclaire 42.9% Nations Ford 42.6% Hidden Valley 41.8% Mountain Is. 41.7% Highland Mill 40.0% Briarwood 39.1% Chantilly 35.7% Grier 35.2% Read More …
March 6, 2016 The flier above is for a conference to be held Saturday, April 2 at the UNC School of Law, 160 Ridge Rd., Chapel Hill. Entitled “Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg at 45: Celebrating Swann, Examining the Judicial Retreat from School Integration, and Imagining a Path Forward,” the event is co-sponsored by the Black Law Student Read More …
June 17, 2015