With little debate and virtually no fireworks, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education on Tuesday night approved some technical amendments to its existing anti-bullying policy that sparked community uproar when it was originally adopted in 2008. CMS already had rules on the book that prohibited bullying when it codified its stand as formal policy two years […]
While the uptown paper of record was busy with headlines touting a marginal dip in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ dropout rate, which fell from 5.9 to 5 percent last year, a less flattering assessment of the situation flew under the radar: How many CMS students are actually making it through the system to graduate? Answer: Less than […]
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 […]
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 […]
Eyebrows were raised last December when the C.D. Spangler Foundation gave Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Peter Gorman a quarter-million-dollar gift, with the money to be used for Gorman’s “personal growth and development,” or as he saw fit to help the district. Maybe Gorman should use some of the loot to pay for flying lessons. The skill […]
Superintendent Peter Gorman has his eyes on that pack of gum in your pocket, or maybe that bottle of Yoo-hoo on your desk, and the schools chief has already launched lobbying efforts to wrest them from you. Gorman didn’t come out and directly say as much when he unveiled a series of dire budget forecasts […]
