CMS Equity Reports – The Swann Fellowship

The staff and committee reports from 2003 to 2010. Original links to the CMS website that have been broken were

The CMS Commitment statement refers to Diversity Initiatives with these words:

“Equity Committee – The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (BOE) formed the Equity Committee in November 2002. The board entrusted this appointed group of citizens from throughout the community with the responsibility of advising the BOE and CMS administration on equity issues within CMS.”

At its meeting Tuesday, July 27, 2010, CMS dropped the checklist approach to tracking equity that was built into the annual reports below. As reported by the Charlotte Observer, “The new policy allows the board to continue the Equity Committee, but does not require the existence of such a panel. Most members said they want to create a new citizen advisory panel with a better-defined mission.”

In the months that followed, the board has not reconstituted the Equity Committee. Its budget cuts have fallen heavily on many of the equity initiatives tracked by the Committee.

As of March 2011, the CMS Commitment cited above remains on the CMS website. But the board’s focus on placing resources where they are needed to help all children achieve their potential is over. The board’s focus on the issue lasted from 2002 to 2010. And the goal, of course, was never achieved.

Staff Reports

The CMS administrative staff has also issued reports detailing progress against a number of standards set by the school board. Beginning in 2009, there was a report, a separate summary, then then a large number of separate files containing data.

In the 2009 listing, the first link is to the file as it was originally filed on the CMS site. The link under the word “cached” will bring up a copy of each item that is stored on this site against the event that the link into the CMS site is broken by CMS or is otherwise unavailable.