Superintendent Peter Gorman could have used part or all of a $250,000 grant he received earlier this year, from the C.D. Spangler Foundation, to help plug a funding gap for school athletics, or to buy some new books for kids, or training for teachers, or – heck, just about anything. The grant money, which was […]
Just for the record, and because I haven’t seen it reported anywhere else, Turning Point Academy, the home of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ exploding pen, is the friendlier, PR-manufactured moniker for what used to be called Derita Alternative, a facility for students that have run into serious discipline problems at other schools. That said, Turning Point Academy […]
Hundreds of angry parents turned out for Tuesday night’s school board meeting, which devolved into a chaotic protest of the district’s plans to close nearly a dozen schools and ended with the arrest of the local NAACP president and a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teacher. The main source of frustration for many parents and community leaders from […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials contend that their plans to close eight schools, consolidate three others and relocate three more is part and parcel of a desperate scramble to prepare for next year’s looming budget crisis, when the state is already directing local school districts to prepare for budget cuts of 5, 10 or 15 percent, an […]
Despite all the gnashing of teeth and general angst earlier this year – not to mention teacher layoffs, pay-for-play athletic fees, and scuttled neighborhood bus stops – Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools saw its total 2010-11 budget increase by about $10 million, up to $1.15 billion, thanks to myriad, last-minute funding boosts from state and federal sources. Not […]
Two popular Montessori magnet schools have gotten a reprieve from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ proposed massive upheaval for continuous improvement: Chantilly and Highland Mill were targeted to be mothballed and consolidated at Oakhurst Elementary, under recommendations rolled out last week. That plan got nixed today at a school board workshop, TCO’s Ann Doss Helms is reporting. Board […]
UPDATE: The Board of Education voted Monday afternoon, Oct. 4, to scuttle plans for shuttering Chantilly and Highland. ———————– From Sept. 30: I’m not saying Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ latest plans of upheaval for continuous improvement have anything to do with social engineering. Here’s what I’m saying: Chantilly Elementary and Highland Mill Elementary are two Montessori schools […]
Like, I don’t know, congenital lying; how else to explain the complete disconnect between statements being made by Superintendent Peter Gorman and top CMS brass, in the wake of the hand grenade recommendations lobbed in the public’s lap to close a dozen schools and ensure wholesale upheaval at scores more. First we have Gorman on […]
Twelve schools are targeted to be mothballed and dozens more would be see massive upheaval under the latest set of proposals being considered by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, part of an ongoing, comprehensive review of the district – the so-called “Case For Continued Improvement.” The proposed changes, which at times can read like a SimCity guidebook written […]
From West Charlotte and Independence to North Meck and the newly opened Hough High, accused felons are roaming the halls of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. According to district officials, 142 students currently enrolled in CMS have been charged with a variety of felony crimes, totaling a combined 319 charges (find defense attorneys to help you to clear […]
