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Feb. 8, 2011 On Bright Beginnings: Delayed until Feb. 8 meeting Voting to delay: Eric Davis, Rhonda Lennon, Richard McElrath, Kaye McGarry, Trent Merchant, Tim Morgan, Tom Tate, Joyce Waddell. Delayed until regular budget cycle in April Voting to delay: Eric Davis, Rhonda Lennon, Richard McElrath, Trent Merchant, Tim Morgan, Tom Tate, Joyce Waddell, Joe Read More …
Jan. 27, 2011 … treat every child in the community like they were your own child.” – Supt. Peter Gorman in Jan. 27, 2011 interview with qcitymetro.com The quote above was taken from an interview by Glenn Burkins in QCityMetro. The original article has dropped off that website, but the text below was retrieved Read More …
Jan. 9, 2011 To the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community: Have we in a year’s time lost 8% or 10% of our interest in our children? Do we think 8% or 10% less of their future as citizens of the world? Tuesday’s school board meeting promises to be dominated by discussion of how to take another 8% to Read More …
Oct. 16, 2010 About 200 protesters walked from the Federal Courthouse to The Square to protest proposed closings of Waddell High and other westside schools. WBTV’s coverage was here, but had been taken down by 2022. And the original slideshow posted on this page after the march had also disappeared by 2022. Using the original Read More …
Oct, 13, 2010 Video above posted to YouTube by charpost on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. The Post’s story on the arrests at Tuesday’s CMS hearing is here. The Post’s story on Tuesday’s hearing is here.
Sept. 29, 2010 CMS student enrollment growth has slowed since the recession, and as recently as this summer CMS officlals foresaw only about 1,300 new students. Instead, at the 20th day, CMS had enrolled 1,974 more students than last year, for a total of 135,638. The full report released today is here.
Sept. 14, 2010 The statement from the Civil Rights project came under this headline: “New Study Finds Big Racial Gap in Suspensions of Middle School Students.” “Middle schools across the country,” Project coordinator Laurie Russman wrote, “are suspending children with alarming frequency, particularly in some large urban school districts, where numerous schools suspend a third Read More …
Aug. 27, 2010 More than 700 Mecklenburg-based nonprofit organizations face revocation of their tax-exempt status uniess people involved with the organizations take action by Oct. 15. The list includes PTAs, homeowner associations, religious outreach groups, fraternal organizations, medical societies, and much much more. The Mecklenburg list below is part of a listing on the IRS Read More …
Aug. 12, 2010 A sig for our times in CMS history:
Aug. 6, 2010 The “No Child Left Behind” status of some schools may figure in school-closings decisions for 2011.