_{� Photographed from video presentation, Aug. 24, 2010}

_{Ken Simmons, education chair of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg branch of the NAACP, presented the schema above on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, during a progress report on the education committee's work this year to identify how it would revive the NAACP's work on school issues.}

_{Simmons said the committee contemplates raising money to provide stipends to retired educators who would make two-day annual visits to each school in the largely high-poverty Central Zone of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. The former educators would rate each school in the 12 areas outlined, then produce a 1-to-4 school score, similar to the scores used in student testing.}

_{At the conclusion of Tuesday's Forum, leader Sarah Stevenson announced that the Aug. 31 Forum would continue the discussion of K-12 school issues, and that she would put together a panel of representatives of other organizations working on various aspects of K-12 education reform.}

_{The Aug. 31 Forum will begin at 8:30 a.m. at its usual meeting place, the West Charlotte Recreation Center, just down the hill from West Charlotte High School.}