That’s the question school board vice chairman Tom Tate asked this week, and it’s a surprisingly valid one. Tate was discussing recently introduced legislation that would give CMS the authority to implement a performance pay plan for teachers without first gaining majority support from teachers. The legislation, officially known as House Bill 546, is in […]
The would be CRVA for short, also known as the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, last seen coming under fire from councilmembers who earlier this year were thumping their chests and demanding more accountability and better oversight of the tourism booster squad. Since then, CRVA chieftain Tim Newman, who pockets an annual pay package in excess […]
Charlotte City Council is set to get a report tonight on the next study for High Occupancy Toll lanes – or HOT lanes. The concept is pretty straightforward. When congestion is the worst, people will be able to pay to get around the traffic snarls. The worse the congestion, the higher the cost. Call it […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools launched its first salvo this week in a barrage of new tests that central office administrators and educrats hope eventually to incorporate into a new teacher performance pay model being pushed by Superintendent Peter Gorman. The uptown paper’s Ann Doss Helms unwinds one teacher’s assessment of both the process and the tests. The […]
I swear it’d be easier dealing with back alley loan sharks than with the board of commissioners’ tax-and-spend majority. At least loan sharks are upfront about their money grabs. Not so much Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts, last seen trying once again to convince folks that just because they might end up paying more in property […]
I figured at first the uptown paper was a little slow on the calendar and this piece must be a belated April Fool’s spoof; but nope – just more proof that with our board of county commissioners, fact is indeed stranger than fiction. In this case, commissioners are considering bringing in a team-building consultant/group dynamic […]
The dire impact of Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s revolving courthouse door of alleged criminal justice has crossed state lines. In this case, it’s a multi-repeat offender who skated on a murder charge only to end up accused of another murder in Georgia. WBTV’s Tom Roussey runs down the sordid backstory: Stacey Dooley of Charlotte is charged with murdering […]
Or how to blow up teachers, scorch parents and burnout students; call it what you will, it’s all part and parcel of Gorman & Company’s wonderful world of control central. In this case, it’s CMS running to Raleigh to get legislation approved that would allow the district to pull the trigger on its coveted teacher […]
A lot more, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department statistics that show 61 arrests logged at the University City high school through February of the current school year, a staggering jump from only six arrests during the whole of the previous school year. The most recent outburst of violence went down yesterday morning in the school […]
New values delivered this week for commercial properties in Mecklenburg County that reflect significant increases across the board seem to directly contradict the county’s own dire forecast on how local markets were trending, giving rise to predictions for wholesale reval appeals and an increased possibility that a majority of homeowners will be walloped by a […]
