The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education weaved through myriad twists and turns Tuesday night navigating its way through possible busing changes that might be lurking around the bend next year, as officials grapple with budget cuts projected to top $100 million. A preliminary roadmap that district officials rolled out included proposals that could cut nearly $19 […]
Let us pretend. If you were told that you could save $15 per week by lying and there was no possibility of getting caught, would you lie? Would you do it for $30 or even $45 per week? No, forget about the tort lawyers, they lie for big bucks; this is about the common man. […]
Alternate Headline: Raleigh’s Washington Monument Syndrome There’s no way the state can be threatening to pinkslip up to 5,300 teachers (CMS impact, 400 to 500) and scores of other classroom personnel because of budget constraints. I know this because the state is spending $10 million (Gov. Bev originally wanted $39M) to buy a bunch of nifty […]
With accusations that racism and financial discrimination were driving forces behind the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education’s decision to close predominately high poverty and minority schools on the city’s West side still stinging the community, flying under the radar has been the likely prospect that schools along the same educational corridor stand to reap millions of […]
Just another page in the ongoing saga of CMS. Violence erupted yesterday at Garinger High School, where 10 students were arrested for disorderly conduct after a rolling brawl broke out on the school’s campus – again. It’s the fourth time this year that police have been called to the school in response to melees. Recall […]
Faced with a budget crisis in New Jersey that’s impacting services across the board, including education, Republican Gov. Chris Christie pushed through a bill that would cap the salaries of school administrators based on the number of students in a district. The bill would also cut the salaries of administrators who make more than the […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Board of Education meeting Tuesday night to consider closing nearly a dozen schools and bring wholesale upheaval to dozens more started and ended with heated protests, accusations of racism, and often exasperated board members struggling with weighty decisions that all agreed provided no pleasant options. When the dust had settled, after a meeting that […]
Board of Education Chairman Eric Davis says CMS doesn’t have anything to hide and will fully cooperate with the local NAACP’s request for an outside financial audit of the district, but won’t come off the hip to foot the bill. That burden, Davis said, should fall on the rabble-rousers calling for a review of CMS’ […]
The same stone-broke board of education that insists it must close schools because the district simply has no money somehow found enough to award more than $1 million in contract extensions to top executives Tuesday night, hours before the board called in armed police to clear the government center’s meeting chamber of audience members protesting […]
Alternate Headline: Making Stuff Up As They Go Along. Seriously, how else to explain the eleventh-hour, complete about-face Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is pulling with the latest revision to its ongoing Case for Continuous Upheaval? Schools Chief Peter Gorman and top CMS staff now say they plan to close Harding High School, instead of Waddell. The details […]
