Or more accurately, the district’s continued privatization tap dance, which has been ongoing for nearly a decade with few demonstrable gains. Recall that way back in 2005 the vaunted CMS Citizens Task Force unveiled what was at the time hailed as bold and sweeping recommendations for improving CMS operations and management. Chief among them was […]
The bill for years of misprioritized spending at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools came due Tuesday night, paid in part with the prepping of pink slips for nearly 400 teachers and 164 instructional support staff. The Board of Education with a 6-3 vote approved a set of guidelines that will be used as CMS implements a reduction in […]
As Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools looks for the second year in a row to cut campus security associates from a $1 billion-plus budget, a new state report shows crime and violence skyrocketing district wide. It’s the seventh consecutive year that CMS has seen spikes in a majority of 17 types of reportable violent and criminal acts, tallying […]
When the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education two weeks ago pushed back a vote to cut $10.4 million from Bright Beginnings, board member Trent Merchant urged his colleagues to find a way to salvage the popular pre-kindergarten program by embracing the innovative work ethic of Walt Disney and letting their consciences, in the mode of Jiminy […]
School Board member Rhonda Lennon drew some strange looks at last week’s meeting when she started shooting from the hip with gun metaphors during a budget debate. “We cannot continue to have bullets in our arsenal and not put them in the gun,” Lennon said, supporting a proposal to study the outsourcing of some CMS […]
Fairy tales can come true. It can happen to you. Or in this case maybe to Bright Beginnings, which received a reprieve from the budget ax this week when the school board voted to delay a decision to cut $10.4 million from the popular pre-kindergarten program. At the same time, the board moved forward with […]
From busing, that is. Been a lot of folks wanting an explanation for how CMS would save $4 million in transportation costs by changing bell schedules at more than 100 of the district’s elementary schools. “It expands the window for us to optimize our bus routes,” Ed Shed COO Hugh Hattabaugh told county commissioners last […]
Superintendent Peter Gorman on Tuesday afternoon rolled out recommended cuts of about $100 million for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools that include scuttling more than half of the district’s Bright Beginnings classes, eliminating more than 1,500 jobs, including hundreds of teachers and teachers assistants and school security staff, while increasing classroom sizes and lengthening the school day for […]
UPDATE: Gee, imagine that Pete Gorman & Co. must be hitting the crack pipe extra hard these days if they think there won’t be a huge backlash for using Jan. 17 as a snow make-up day, as the district’s website currently indicates is the intent. Gotta wonder what genius in CMS’ platinum-plated PR Department gave this […]
Here’s a piece of good news: CMS students not making headlines for brawls. Quite the opposite in fact, where over at Olympic High you’ve got students up at the crack of dawn, braving wintry weather to drive to school and wrap gifts they collected for kids at Hidden Valley Elementary, as part of their Homelessness […]
