With the May 4 primary election looming on the near horizon, if you haven’t already started digging into where the candidates stand, now is a good time. And we can’t think of a better place to begin than a recent survey the Campaign For Liberty sent to candidates for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate […]
Gotta love Gov. Bev’s math, or at least admire it for creativity. Perdue’s recommended state budget, released yesterday, prompted the obligatory headlines that focused on nearly $1-billion in savings proposed by the governor. The buzzword “slashed” was all the vogue. Odd thing, though, about those slashes: they result in a bottom-line spending increase of about […]
Talk of snatching $6.3 million from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ budget to help fill an overall county shortfall of $36 million in current-year funding has been floating for weeks. Commissioners made it official last night, when they unanimously approved the mid-year budget reduction. And despite recent howls that the fiscal correction would have dire consequence on CMS […]
Remember way back when Peter Gorman was hailed as an agent of change after being hired to helm Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, and even conservative naysayers like Commissioner Bill James expressed some degree of confidence in the new chief’s promises to break up the district’s bloated bureaucracy and right-size its fiscal ship. The cheers of optimism lasted […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons The 17th Annual Rural Hill Scottish Festival and Loch Norman Highland Games was filled with fun and games this weekend in Huntersville. [nggallery id=28]
Photos by: Glen Simmons Alive After Five celebrated the Bobcats trip to the NBA playoffs, the first in franchise history, by hosting a Playoff Pep Rally Thursday at Wachovia Plaza. The Bobcats playoff run starts Sunday at the Orlando Magic, 5:30 p.m., televised on TNT. Game Two is Wednesday, April 21, at Orlando, 7 p.m. […]
Thanks to the sound fiscal policies and stellar management of city government, Charlotte finds itself in the position of proposing pay hikes for its employees – oh, and eliminating funding for school crossing guards and security officers, cutting money for after-school programs, tinkering with police overtime schedules, jacking up bus fares for the elderly and […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons Always one of the year’s premiere events, the 15th Annual Taste of the Nation served up tasty treats Wednesday night at The Atrium Uptown for a good cause. The event was a gourmet extravaganza featuring signature dishes from more than 20 of Charlotte’s finest restaurants and culinary schools. Proceeds from the […]
Teacher assistants, actually, about 164 of them, set to be fired under the budget recommendation the schools chief rolled out last night. That’s on top of up to 600 teachers and 250 other staff previously targeted for layoffs in Gorman’s proposed budget. Grand total: 1,030 jobs, along with eliminating magnet school bus stops, sidelining middle […]
Some called it “educational apartheid,” others “a return to segregation,” and regardless of the catch phrase they used, none were happy with Superintendent Peter Gorman’s initiative that will lump all of the district’s Title I schools into a newly created Central Zone learning community. Title I is educrat code for high-poverty, low-performing schools, the majority […]
