May 26, 2015 Three staff members outlined training and education offerings available from Mental Health America of Central Carolinas. The group handed out three brochures: “The MHA: your Source for Mental Health Education,” “Parent Voice Program” and “Compeer Program.” Mental Health America ... Continue Reading →
Video of ‘A Dream Again Deferred?’
May 5, 2015 It was billed as a commemoration of Swann v. Mecklenburg, the court case brought by Julius Chambers that led the U.S. Supreme Court in a Charlotte case to approve the use of mandatory busing to overcome the effects of segregation mandated by local law. But the room May 5 was filled ... Continue Reading →
Sickle Cell: Assisting patients while raising awareness
April 21, 2015 Four health care advocates made the case at the Forum today for greater awareness of sickle cell disease, a genetically transmitted disease that causes potentially life-threatening complications among its predominantly African-American victims. About 800 adults and children in ... Continue Reading →
The 2015-2016 CMS Budget: Background materials
Page initiated April 16, 2015 Here are links to material shared with the Forum on the 2015-2016 CMS budget proposed by Supt. Ann Clark and subsequent Board consideration of the subject. If you would like material considered for listing in this archive, e-mail it to the Forum. CMS materials 4-23 ... Continue Reading →
Success stories from a charter’s first year
April 14, 2015 Tom Hanley mostly doesn't talk in specifics. Except for his enrollment. In a town where there have been spectacular collapses of N.C. charter schools during the first year at a high cost to individual students and the state, Commonwealth High School has enrolled 300 students, ... Continue Reading →
New beginning at C.W. Williams Community Health Center
March 31, 2015 Debra Weeks is three weeks into a big job: resuscitating C.W. Williams Community Health Center, the federally subsidized clinic on Wilkinson Boulevard that is formulating a plan to get out of bankruptcy, win back thousands of patients who left when operating hours were cut, and build ... Continue Reading →
Clark: Leaders first must share belief that all kids can learn
March 24, 2015 Despite three decades serving the public in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Ann Clark sought first to explain herself. Fair enough: The North Carolina native is in the limelight as never before, and people are paying attention as never before. Named superintendent in ... Continue Reading →
Driver’s Ed: Everybody likes it; nobody wants to pay
March 17, 2015 Driver’s Education funding in North Carolina, put in jeopardy by last year’s legislative budget, is again giving local school boards fits. Without relief from Raleigh, local boards will be mandated to provide driver’s ed by the state, but will not be given any money to pay for ... Continue Reading →
Mary McCray: Board to start Supt. search by consulting community
March 10, 2015 Mary McCray is chair of the CMS Board of Education. In her presentation to the Forum, she talked about a budget preparation period this spring in which the board will have to pare programs down to the funds available – which will leave even current undertakings either cut back or ... Continue Reading →
Truancy at West Charlotte High School
Feb. 10, 2015 Three adults who work at West Charlotte High School but aren't even CMS employees made a pitch for help from the community Tuesday. Their goal: Keep West Charlotte students in their seats in classrooms. George Metz Jr., Tamara Hundley and Dr. Daisy Walker appealed for the kind of ... Continue Reading →
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