If at first you don’t succeed, move along and hope that extra support will help you catch up. That’s the philosophy critics contend is driving a new set of grade-promotion and graduation standards at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. The new rules, which take effect next school year, strongly encourage principals to not retain a student more than […]
In a series of pricey votes Monday night, the city council approved more than $46 million worth of contracts that clear a flight path for major overhauls at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport and puts the Queen City in business with tech titan Google. The council approved a nearly $700,000 change-order to a construction contract with Edison […]
After months of political machinations and public theater resulting from a sexual harassment complaint that was never really a formal complaint filed against Councilmember Warren Turner, the Charlotte City Council on Monday night unanimously adopted a code of ethics and harassment policy to govern the council and mayor. The new policy, which includes guidelines on […]
Between feasting on bites of taxpayer-funded meals at their dinner meeting tonight, city councilmembers are scheduled to take a virtual stroll on a public art gallery crawl, to include works that were completed this year and others that are on tap for the 2011 proposed public art work plan. Total cost: more than $800,000. Included […]
Mecklenburg County employees – at least the ones who still have jobs – would go without pay hikes for the second year in a row, under the budget County Manager Harry Jones rolled out Tuesday night for the upcoming fiscal year. And while Jones cautioned that the pay freeze could put the county at risk […]
Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones quoted and referenced everybody and everything from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Teddy Roosevelt to the P.O.W. Stockdale Paradox, in unveiling a recommended budget that avoids a tax increase, cuts $81 million in programs and services, axes nearly 400 employees, and left Jones, in his words, standing on tippy toes, peering […]
As Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools continues issuing pink slips to hundreds of teachers, and officials brace for the looming possibility of wholesale school closings next year, the district finds itself trapped in pricey long-term leases for administrative offices scattered around the county and is bartering away millions of dollars for even more new office space at a […]
In today’s top story, Matthews native, Butler Bulldog alum and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covergirl Brooklyn Decker has been crowned the second most beautiful woman in the world by Maxim magazine’s Hot 100 List. Additional verbiage not required.
A fractious Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education on Tuesday night voted 6-3 to approve a schools budget that includes plans to slash upwards of 600 teacher and teacher assistant positions, implement a pay-to-play scheme for middle- and high school sports, increase class sizes while shrinking transportation options to popular magnet schools, and have students pay fees […]
A handful of Democrat county commissioners are pushing to hike a special law enforcement district tax paid by residents living in the county’s unincorporated areas, despite the county manager’s recommendation to avoid the tax increase and pull money from other parts of the budget to pay for the service. Since 1996 residents in the county’s […]
