Hit-and-Run Schools Budget
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools loves themselves a good media briefing, the typically anti-adversarial, weekly lovefests debuted a few years ago by Superintendent Peter Gorman. It’s a swift way for Gorman & Co. to pick up the remnants of the latest school board meeting to set an agenda and drive feel-good stories that, for the most, local media dutifully regurgitate along the party line.
Not so much tomorrow. In the wake of what will likely be a contentious meeting tonight, where the school board is slated to approve Gorman’s recommended budget that calls for laying off hundreds of teachers while growing class sizes and slashing popular magnet-school bus routes, CMS has cancelled its normally-scheduled media briefing on Wednesday.
The district’s media-stories calendar for this week included the following line-item notification for Wednesday, highlighted in bold red text:
There will NOT be a media briefing today. Media needing a comment on the Board of Education meeting must gather interviews Tuesday night after the meeting.
No explanation was provided for the sudden schedule change. Regular media briefings, presumably, will resume next week when CMS has a few storylines more palatable to discuss and disseminate than the wholesale layoff of teachers and cuts to the classrooms.
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