Glenn Burkins reported this story for QCityMetro from the Forum today. Read it here. The graduation rate at West Charlotte High School will show another leap when state figures are released next month, according to a Project LIFT spokeswoman. Speaking at the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Forum, Denada ... Continue Reading →
Daisy Spears Stroud, 1921-2014
By Claire Williams | The Charlotte Observer A community activist who saw race relations in the country change from inside the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County school system died Wednesday. Daisy Spears Stroud, known as Miss Daisy, was 92. Stroud was born in the middle of the deeply segregated ... Continue Reading →
Commonwealth High Charter
Thomas Hanley made a presentation today about Commonwealth High School, a public charter school scheduled to open next month at 5112 Central Ave., near the former Eastland Mall site. According to Hanley, the school will open with fewer than 200 students (a bid request out of Nashville specified ... Continue Reading →
Open Forum: Parents and Education
Speakers fault parents, doubt state will educate all children A comment about how children at a summer camp are mostly there for math remediation set off an entire Forum focused on how the community can do a better job of ensuring that all children get a good education. There seemed to be ... Continue Reading →
Lee Thompson Young Foundation
“We can create a movement for change, a movement in consciousness. a movement in the way that we think, so that together we can change the story about mental health and wellness.” – Velma Love Bipolar disorder struck Velma Love's family more than a decade ago. Her son Lee was diagnosed. He was ... Continue Reading →
League of Conservation Voters on environmental issues
Megan Boler and Zachary Denard, field organizers with the League of Conservation Voters, made a presentation about their office's efforts to raise environmental awareness. Boler showed a short segment of video that gave two examples of how environmental concerns are playing out in two different ... Continue Reading →
Open Forum Topics
Tuesday's Open Forum saw participants rise to discuss issues on their minds. To respect privacy of Forum participants and to encourage candor during such discussions, it is the policy of this website to transcribe or paraphrase these discussions without identifying the names of the speakers. In some ... Continue Reading →
Supt. Morrison makes case for CMS budget
Supt. Heath Morrison returned to the Forum to explain his budget proposal and to ask his listeners to call legislators in whose hands key budget decisions rest. He repeatedly referred to the low wages set by legislators for teachers and other CMS employees. He had memorized not just North Carolina's ... Continue Reading →
Elyse Dashew, Sandra Conway push petition for full school funding
Elyse Dashew and Sandra Conway have organized a letter-writing and petition effort to encourage full funding of CMS's budget. Their efforts have drawn some media coverage. Below is the text of a Michelle Boudin report that ran on NBC6 on Monday. (The video has been removed from the WCNC ... Continue Reading →
West Charlotte High teachers propose new studies program
Rachel Scott and Paige Laurain, first-year teachers at West Charlotte High School, say they've learned from their students about what doesn't work in motivating teens to take their education seriously. From those lessons, they've put together a proposal that they outlined today at the ... Continue Reading →
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