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 →
‘Highlighting African-American Achievers’ to be Feb. 19-21
Jan. 20, 2015 Blanche Penn announced that the 2015 edition of "Highlighting African-American Achievers" would be Feb. 19-21 at Wallace Pruitt Recreation Center. The annual event on a shoestring budget attempts to give schoolchildren a glimpse of moments in African-American history, and the many ... Continue Reading →
Conference aims for motivational impact on middle-school males
Jan. 20, 2015 Betty Howell Gray was back at the Forum Tuesday to promote a February conference aimed at improving academic achievement. Education experts and inspirational speakers dominate the daytime activities on Feb. 12-13. A free community meeting is planned on the evening of Feb. ... Continue Reading →
Sandra Clory on Tai Chi class
Jan. 20, 2015 Sandra Clory rose at today's Open Forum to discuss a Tai Chi class she will be teaching at Myers Park Baptist Church in February. More on the class is here. ... Continue Reading →
Goal: 80% of 3rd-graders reading well by 3rd grade
Jan. 13, 2014 Johanna Anderson, executive director of the Belk Foundation, is still weeks away from a formal announcement of a communitywide effort to improve reading. But she was at the Forum Tuesday to outline some of the scope of the planning that's already been done; to reassure people that ... Continue Reading →
Primerica services outlined
Jan. 6, 2015 Desmond Wiggan, an investment adviser representative with Primerica, addressed the Forum Tuesday. He was introduced by Doris Taylor. Contact information for Wiggan is here. [A video of the presentation that was posted here earlier has been removed at the company's request because of ... Continue Reading →
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