With little debate and virtually no fireworks, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education on Tuesday night approved some technical amendments to its existing anti-bullying policy that sparked community uproar when it was originally adopted in 2008. CMS already had rules on the book that prohibited bullying when it codified its stand as formal policy two years […]
A long-range transportation plan that received approval from the city council Monday night assumes that Charlotte will have two more rail-transit corridors up and running by 2025, which coupled with some long-delayed road-building projects will help the Charlotte region attain air-quality levels mandated by the federal government. One glaring problem with the plan, of course, […]
All it apparently takes to shave more than $250,000 off a government project is for a few dozen people to show up at some city council meetings and a few dozen more sending angry e-mails to elected officials and the media. At least that seems to be the case for a controversial sidewalk project that the […]
A controversial set of development guidelines on schedule to become law later this year, along with some equally controversial regulations and ordinances already being enforced, drew heat at Monday night’s city council meeting. And it wasn’t the stereotypical, much-maligned, money-grubbing, big, bad developer who was breathing fire. It was advocates for affordable housing, or more […]
It’s not uncommon for school districts to reward teachers with monetary bonuses for producing positive results in the classroom. In Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, they might want to consider providing hazard pay. During the most recently completed school year CMS logged a record-setting 169 reported incidents of assault on school personnel, along with myriad other types of […]
Eyebrows were raised last December when the C.D. Spangler Foundation gave Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Peter Gorman a quarter-million-dollar gift, with the money to be used for Gorman’s “personal growth and development,” or as he saw fit to help the district. Maybe Gorman should use some of the loot to pay for flying lessons. The skill […]
It’s only fitting that after years of rampant and wildly misguided spending, the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners got its first look at budget projections for the coming fiscal year during a meeting that was held last month on Fat Tuesday. That’s when commissioners learned the county faces a financial shortfall of at least $15.9 […]
