Sept. 20, 2016 The Forum heard today from four candidates for re-election to legislative seats representing Mecklenburg districts. Two are unopposed on Nov. 8, and the challengers in the other two contests were not present. So the visits served chiefly as education for the voters in the room and ... Continue Reading →
Byers-Bailey issues call to action over possible Double Oaks sale
Sept. 13, 2016 Board of Education member Thelma Byers-Bailey issued this call to action today to protest the possible sale by CMS of the old Double Oaks School property. The former elementary school and Pre-K center has been leased to community groups since the Great Recession. Byers-Bailey said ... Continue Reading →
Candidates Speak: Connie Green-Johnson
Sept. 13, 2016 The candidates in the November 2016 general election come and go at the Forum. Videos made of their comments are posted as they become available. On this page: Connie Green-Johnson, candidate for N.C. House District 105. Click the video to start ... Continue Reading →
Legislative candidates, Part 1
Sept. 13, 2016 On a ballot full of legislative incumbents, two challengers came before the Forum today. Each is a Democrat waging a battle for votes in a House district where Republican voters outnumber Democrats, but where Democrats plus independents overwhelm Republicans. Noris faces Republican ... Continue Reading →
School-by-school out-of-school suspensions, grades PK-2
Sept. 7, 2016 This CMS document dated June 28, 2016 offers school-by-school data on out-of-school suspensions during the years 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 for grades Pre-K, Kindergarten, Grade One and Grade Two. For privacy reasons, schools reporting one to four suspensions in any given grade are ... Continue Reading →
Impact of out-of-school suspension over time
Sept. 7, 2016 This undated CMS spreadsheet examines the 2015-16 graduation cohort, and specifically the 5,754 members of that class for which CMS had information about out-of-school suspensions during their PK-2 years. For privacy reasons, grades in which there were one to four suspensions are ... Continue Reading →
Summary data on PK-2 out-of-school suspensions
Sept. 7, 2016 This CMS spreadsheet dated Aug. 5, 2016 offers summary data sheets on out-of-school suspensions for grades PK through 2. While some of the headers may have become damaged in transit, all the charts in this series appear to offer data for 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16. The categories ... Continue Reading →
CMS summary for out-of-school suspensions, all grades
Sept. 7, 2016 This undated CMS document offers a discipline summary for all grades for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years, and includes numbers of students with out-of-school suspensions by demographic category. The document was provided to the Forum by CMS Board of Education member Ericka ... Continue Reading →
‘Adults can find a better way to deal with student behavior’
Sept. 7, 2016 The following was addressed to the Forum by CMS Board of Education At-Large member Ericka Ellis-Stewart: “Last year, I started calling for a moratorium on suspensions for students in PreK - 2nd grade in CMS. In looking at the data for the last three years, CMS has had between ... Continue Reading →
Clark reviews successes, invites community commitment to North Star goals
Sept 6, 2016 Supt. Ann Clark seemed cheered by recent good news from state reports about student achievement. But as she regularly does, the CMS superintendent made clear that public expectations for quality local schools had not been met. And she also continued to cajole Forum participants, those ... Continue Reading →
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