July 11, 2022 Sixty-eight CMS schools this fall will offer free breakfast and lunch to all students. They are know as CEP or Community Eligibility Provision schools. More than than 100 CMS schools are non-CEP sites. Lists of the schools are at the bottom of this page. Non-CEP For families who ... Continue Reading →
CMS seeks advice on attendance area lines in 3 areas
July 8, 2022 CMS is continuing to seek community guidance on school assignment changes that could touch more than a dozen CMS schools, reassign untold hundreds of students, be finalized by the Board of Education in about six weeks and take effect for the 2023-24 schol year. All this has been ... Continue Reading →
New name, but decades of service to city’s future leaders
Jared Keaton, lower left; other photos from Alliance Center's website. June 28, 2022 The name Alliance Center for Education left even community-minded Forum participants with blank looks. But when the name Bethlehem Center of Charlotte surfaced, many faces brightened; ah, the perils of ... Continue Reading →
Career & Tech Education: A CMS Update
June 21, 2022 As with most dissections of policy or practice within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, there were multiple layers of reality on display as the Forum sought from a CMS program director some details of how career and technical education plays out in the schools ... Continue Reading →
Will 2023 school bond issue get the attention it deserves?
June 16, 2022 The last move toward a bond issue for school construction was under way just as COVID-19 closed the schools. No doubt it is time to revisit the issue. But with an interim superintendency under way and leadership turnover guaranteed via November’s school board district elections, the ... Continue Reading →
A plan to bridge the school-home divide to benefit children
May 24, 2022 Start with one high-needs school. Canvass the neighborhood. Find out what parents think they and their children need that might be supported out of the schoolhouse. Find agencies and volunteers to fill those needs. Empower parents and other neighborhood residents to help direct the ... Continue Reading →
Forum discusses future of CMS in wake of firing
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Subsidy of Internet fees available to low-income households
Feb. 15, 2022 The first federal intervention in the economic fallout from COVID-19, named the CARES Act and approved in March 2020, set aside money for a temporary Emergency Broadband Benefit Program to subsidize broadband access during the pandemic. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ... Continue Reading →
Women’s health: Honoring trailblazers, lending encouragement
Jan. 25, 2022 Forum participants today listened to stories describing how meetings over the last year among women focused on women’s overall health have led to a multi-pronged effort, first to recognize leaders in women’s health, and second to provide women ways to find the support they need to ... Continue Reading →
Barbara Ledford, former Dub-C principal, dies
Jan. 24, 2022 Barbara Ledford, former West Charlotte High principal and inspiration to many of her students, died Dec. 30. A Charlotte Ledger appreciation, republished in QCityMetro here. – – – ... Continue Reading →
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