The hardest thing about being a conservative politically in this community is that some member (s) of the local Ruling Class Elite is always trying to manipulate you for their purposes. Two recent events which occurred at Don Reids’ Thursday Morning Breakfast Meeting prove my point. First Tim Morgan, one of the RCE’s on the […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has struggled to collect nearly $1 million in unpaid lunch bills from the last two years, as district officials have scrambled for money to salvage popular pre-kindergarten programs, retain front-line educators, and keep classroom sizes manageable. Out of 27,233 cases where students have stacked up unpaid meal bills, CMS has managed to close […]
Forty-year-old business analyst Ken Nelson has filed to run for Mecklenburg County School Board. Married, with a three-year-old daughter, Nelson has been a Charlotte resident since 2006. This will be his second run for a School Board seat, being narrowly defeated in 1997 in his hometown of Clark, NJ. Nelson is known locally as a […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools interim chief Hugh Hattabaugh used his inaugural presser this week to make clear his intention of staying the course when it comes to fully implementing a barrage of new, pricey, and unproven tests that come part and parcel with the district’s drive for teacher performance pay. The initiative, championed by former super Peter […]
You could not ask for a more effective and perfectly executed scare-and-fear campaign than the one just completed by outgoing Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Peter Gorman and his complicit cohorts on the board of education. Starting months ago, Gorman & Co. were busy rolling out dire budget projections that called for upwards of $100 million cuts, […]
Less than a day after Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools snagged a $26-million budget bump from the board of commissioners’ Democrat majority, which fretted that providing less would leave to a massive layoffs of teachers – because, you know, Superintendent Peter Gorman and the school board said so – CMS announced that $30 million from the state had […]
After five years at the helm of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Peter Gorman today announced his resignation, effective Aug. 15, as he heads to greener pastures with the Education Division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation as its newly minted senior vice president, according to this press release. Gee, give a guy an extra $26M and you get […]
Alternate Headline: Crash-and-Burn Bill of the Week. Which doesn’t necessarily make it a bad one, but I suspect Rep. Dale Folwell, a Forsyth Republican, is doomed to epic failure with proposed legislation that would require principals to keep track of illegal immigrants in their schools, for the sole purpose of fiscal analysis. The blowback from […]
Queen City NAACP chief Kojo Nantambu, last seen making a general nuisance by disrupting school board meetings with counter-productive, self-serving, headline-grabbing protests, was at it again this week, only this time taking his act to the bigger stage of the General Assembly. Nantambu was among six protestors arrested by legislative police on Tuesday, after shouting […]
Interesting, but not entirely surprising, how the uptown paper chose to parse snippets of an e-mail exchange between Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James and Board of Education member Trent Merchant. Even more interesting is the perspective pitched by former Mecklenburg Commissioner Dan Bishop, which wasn’t included in the uptown paper’s account. Bishop was copied on the […]
