A comment by Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx on schools
Jan. 17, 2010 A comment by Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx on schools:
Category: General
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Spurt of communication, and then…
Jan. 2, 2010 Graphic shows numbers of superintendent’s community addresses posted to his website, by year.
Election night’s winners face the uncertainties ahead
Nov. 3, 2009 On election night: These nine face the uncertainties ahead for the CMS school board.
NC law allows parents to report schools failing at their job
Sept. 10, 2009 From the North Carolina General Statutes, and worthy of being read aloud at every PTA meeting at every struggling public school. State law gives PTAs the right to bypass local administrations and give a shout-out to NC education officials when their children are not being served:
Including parents in an important re-visioning to improve education
July 21, 2009 From the July 21 NC Justice News, published by Raleigh-based N.C. Justice Center: “EDUCATION: Involving Parents in Personal Education Plans “House Bill 804, a measure that would amend the law regarding personal education plans (PEPs) for students at risk of academic failure, has passed in both the House and Senate chambers. However, Read More …
Future depends on how we support single working mothers
May 17, 2009 Researcher Gary Orfield argues for more societal support for single working mothers. Report here. PR sheet here.
Assignment proposal 1999 – bad then, worse now
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 …
Educating all children – by design
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 …
Equity Report terms improvements ‘insufficient’
Feb. 1, 2009 This graphic appeared on the front of this website shortly after CMS released its 2009 Equity Report. The full archive of such reports is here.
Training available for prospective school board members
Sept. 24, 2008 Mecklenburg Citizens for Public Education will sponsor training for potential school board members on Nov. 1.