July 11, 2017 Dr. Betty Howell Gray brought to the Forum today the work of educators who are committed to increasing parent engagement in local public schools. The local chapter of the National Alliance of Black School Educators has a forum coming up on Saturday, Aug. 12. The Q&A allowed ... Continue Reading →
A mission for better health, from the feet up
June 13, 2017 Manny Ohonme funded Samaritan's Feet in 2003 with his wife Tracie. The nonprofit puts shoes on children and adults who have ill-fitting shoes or, as often, none at all. The goal is protection against soil-transmitted diseases. Ohonme's Nigerian boyhood changed when he received a ... Continue Reading →
News on summer camps
June 6, 2017 Four items came up today about summer camps about to occur for area youth. A rundown: • • • YMCA 'Summer of Opportunity' City Council member Greg Phipps brought up the project to open three YMCA facilities for use exclusively by teens on Friday and Saturday nights between June 23 ... Continue Reading →
Preparing teens for a college that opens doors to life
May 16, 2017 Gerald Baucom says his adoptive parents opened doors for him. For more than 30 years, he's been doing the same for teens who need some help envisioning themselves going to college. Baucom's Campus Connections assists about 150 students per year. The nonprofit links teens and their ... Continue Reading →
Byers-Bailey: CMS likely won’t reconvert all westside K-8s
April 4, 2017 District 2 school board member Thelma Byers-Bailey said she did not have the votes to fully reverse the Great-Recession decision to create underfunded, unequal K-8 schools on the westside. But she predicted that money would be moved around within the upcoming school bond proposal ... Continue Reading →
Charlotte Career Discovery Day is April 20
https://charlottenc.gov/NBS/CE/Youth/Pages/default.aspx Feb. 28 2017 Dawn Hill, Dr. Yolanda Holmes and David Jessup teamed up. As in bringing three teams together to present a place for thousands of children to see something of careers they might never otherwise consider. Hill heads the Mayor’s ... Continue Reading →
CMS gathers in some surveys, explains assignment journey
Feb. 14, 2017 Officials from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools opened the Forum with time for participants to fill out a survey on pupil assignment issues. Deadline for the surveys was noon. As participants worked on their survey papers, Assistant Superintendent Akeshia Craven-Howell offered an ... Continue Reading →
Allison makes case for more school choice for low-income parents
Feb. 7, 2017 Darrell Allison is as complicated a man as the school choice subject he espouses. He advocates for state-funded vouchers that help parents send their children to private schools. His own children are enrolled in Wake County Public Schools. He wants every parent to know their ... Continue Reading →
Carter celebrates JCSU’s success, worries over U.S. future
Jan. 24, 2017 It was something of a victory lap for Ron Carter, whose time in the presidency of Johnson C. Smith University may, he said, be extended a few months past his announced June departure. Forum leaders prepared an elaborate resolution of thanks for his work both at the university and ... Continue Reading →
Incoming CMS superintendent introduces himself
Jan. 10, 2017 CMS Board of Education Chairperson Mary McCray brought oncoming CMS Supt. Dr. Clayton Wilcox to the Forum this morning, where she introduced him and then he offered some words about himself. As Observer reporter Ann Doss Helms noticed, instead of immediately departing after his ... Continue Reading →
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