With a divisive 5-4 vote the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education on Tuesday night approved a $1.17-billion budget plan that hopes to suck $352 million from county coffers, a $50 million increase from the school system’s current take. And that was the easy vote. The battle royal came when a different five-member majority fended off an […]
Three guns confiscated in two days at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, as the school board preps for tonight’s ask of an additional $55 million in county funding. Yesterday it was a student attempting to hijack a school bus, an event that yielded eight counts of kidnapping and two counts of possession of a weapon on school grounds. […]
You know your school board is coming off the rails when its most vocally fiscal conservative member is also its biggest budget buster – at least, in this case, when it comes to jet-setting around the country. Kaye McGarry flew over her travel expense allotment last year, and appears on track for a repeat performance […]
Hitting taxpayers up for a $55 million funding increase, and then canceling a budget workshop scheduled for this week, apparently passes for compromise these days with the school board. It’s also what passes for fiscal conservatism. A majority of the board last night endorsed a proposal, floated by board chair Eric Davis, to seek an […]
A little bit of perspective on the uptown paper’s gushing headline: Six-figure salaries thinning at CMS While the number of educrats pocketing $100,000 or more has shrunk from last year’s total of 104 to this year’s number of 85, let’s take a collective breath of reality and recall that last year’s number represents years of […]
Well, at least parts of it. The Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners last night relinquished its right of first refusal to either purchase or lease nearly a dozen institutes of lower learning recently shuttered by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, clearing the way to put the properties up for lease on the open market. Tell me it would […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
