It’s not uncommon for school districts to reward teachers with monetary bonuses for producing positive results in the classroom. In Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, they might want to consider providing hazard pay. During the most recently completed school year CMS logged a record-setting 169 reported incidents of assault on school personnel, along with myriad other types of […]
As sidewalks go, the city’s retrofit of one that borders a small stretch of Park Road is causing more anguish than the step-on-a-crack, break-your-mother’s-back jingle. First there’s the price, which tops out at a whopping $665,000 for about two blocks of sidewalk along Park Road, between Sunset and Poindexter drives. “The City of Charlotte is […]
Spiders are truly amazing creatures. They feed by ensnaring their prey in a craftily, durably constructed, but largely invisible web. These stealthy arachnids then proceed to fatten themselves by methodically sucking the very lifeblood from their unsuspecting victims. In comparison, the modern era vampire legend of Dracula seems like a children’s bedtime story — perhaps […]
It’s hard to imagine a better motto for any government, institution, or person than the one North Carolina has had since 1893: esse quam videri. From Cicero’s “On Friendship,” the phrase is translated from Latin as “to be rather than to seem.” How many elected officials in Raleigh and elsewhere live up to this standard […]
So President Obama and the Democrats are going to use the reconciliation route to pass health care ‘reform’ (sic)? Are there any odds in Las Vegas on this yet? If so, you might want to place some money down on it…it would be a humdinger of a Super Bowl contest of wills, patience and parliamentary […]
If discussing politics and religion should be avoided at all costs, then science must join the list. Much of today’s “settled science” or “scientific consensus” is actually religion in its purest sense. The scientific faithful are proselytizing, pronouncing woe to anyone who questions their doctrine. Too many scientists are High Priests in the First Assembled […]
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A new twist that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools implemented for the 2008-09 school year triggered a sharp decrease in long-term out-of-school suspensions, which tumbled to only 48 from 1,055 the previous year. Short-term out-of-school suspensions, by comparison, increased significantly, totaling 36,211 for the 2008-09 school year, a jump of 5,726. Officials with CMS’ Alternative Education/Safe Schools Department […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons Revelers raise a toast at the Stanly County Winter Wine Festival, on Saturday, Feb. 27. [nggallery id=8]
Photos by: Stan Cochrane Niners bat around Buffalo with 8-4 win on Saturday, Feb. 27; next up, Marist, on Friday, March 5, at 4 p.m. [nggallery id=7]
