Remember a few years back when the Board of Education approved a new anti-bullying policy for CMS, when Larry Gauvreau and Kaye McGarry voted against it because they said it was being used as a way to gain a foothold for promoting and advancing a pro-homosexual agenda in classrooms. Gauvreau and McGarry were lambasted as […]
Just for the sake of argument, let’s say you’re a school district that has a large number of economically disadvantaged, mostly minority kids with low academic achievement levels attending schools that are badly underutilized, some of them near half-capacity; and you have a bunch of relatively affluent, mostly white kids with decent to above-average achievement […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials have released a list of 32 schools that could face major changes next year, from reconfigured student-assignment boundaries to shutting down individual schools. Or not. School officials stress the list is only preliminary, crafted around and aligned with the school board’s newly concocted set of so-called guiding principles that covers the likes […]
CMS officials have acknowledged that they learned well in advance of the official start of this year’s football season that a Butler High player had been arrested for rape, but that Ed Shed brass failed to notify the school for more than week. As a result, Osvaldo Sombo, 17, was able to play in the […]
Michael Jordan and the Bobcats drove the funding lane Monday with a slamdunk of a PR move, cutting one whopper of a check to help Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools fill its pay-to-play equity gap for middle school sports. WCNC runs down the details here: CMS Schools Superintendent Dr. Peter Gorman said, “This gift will mean students can […]
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education this week backed a recommendation from Superintendent Peter Gorman to bank $25 million in new federal funding that’s headed the district’s way, instead of spending it immediately to rehire teachers that lost their jobs because of budget cuts earlier this year. CMS pink-slipped about 400 teachers, but a recent influx […]
So the kiddos, 7 and 9, were all geared up and jazzed early this morning for the first day back to school. Their enthusiasm began to wane after 15 minutes at the bus stop, with no bus in sight. Then 20 minutes, which turned into a half-hour. A call to the school confirmed there had […]
In a political shell game of grand and devious proportions, state legislators this week hailed themselves as heroes for saving hundreds of schoolteacher jobs. Problem is, they did it using upwards of $64 million in lottery revenue that was plundered from counties across the state. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, for example, announced this week that the state […]
Despite seeing its massive billion-dollar-plus budget contract over the last two years to a slightly less massive billion-dollar-plus budget, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools posted gains in preliminary results released this week for end-of-grade and end-of-course exams for 2010, while also managing to improve the district’s dropout rate with 70 percent of students nabbing a diploma in the […]
When it wasn’t staying busy Tuesday night driving the final nails into the reduction-in-force coffins of nearly 540 teachers and upwards of 1,000 total personnel, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education took time to yap and nip at its own heels. Several board members voiced skepticism and concern over a wide-ranging review of the district that’s […]
