Feb. 21, 2023 Four of the six District representatives on the CMS Board of Education participated this morning in a discussion at the Forum. The initial idea was to compare how the promises they made before November's election compared with their actions to date. The quick answer is that very ... Continue Reading →
Things lost, nothing forgotten: Mecklenburg’s Black schools
Tools for reading emotions, in others and yourself
Jan. 31, 2023 Note to young people: Sometimes your work life can spring right out of and build on your life experience. Mic Alexander's current situation is a case in point. Some life events that Alexander described this morning led her to ask, how did I overcome these issues and handle it all? ... Continue Reading →
Tracking West End’s dirty air to leverage positive change
Dec. 13, 2022 Bisected by major Charlotte thruways and their particulate-spewing vehicle tailpipes. Home to polluting industries. Neighbor to a gravel quarry. Unprotected by local government for generations from the health effects of the unrelenting environmental onslaught. Daisha Wall, ... Continue Reading →
Perspective | Charity is splendid, public education necessary
Dec. 2, 2022; republished Dec. 7 By Ferrel Guillory, EducationNC The civic holidays and religious holy days that span from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day turn Americans’ attention to people in need. A glossary of phrases signifies the season: Angel Tree, Advent Giving Tree, Toys for Tots, Coats ... Continue Reading →
NC Supreme Court decision in Leandro case
Nov. 4, 2022 The Nov. 8 election may make the decision moot in a matter of months, but for a day or more the N.C. Supreme Court has rejected objections to ordering the state to fund a previously agreed-to intervention to improve the educational opportunities in N.C. public schools throughout the ... Continue Reading →
Pre-college programs invite youth to dream bigger
Aug. 16, 2022 The image at right is on a slide explaining the mission of 100 Black Men of Greater Charlotte, Inc. What the child "sees" in the mirror is maybe not what many of Charlotte's children see every day. Dozens of programs, including all the ones discussed this morning at the Forum, are ... Continue Reading →
Beginning a partnership with CMS
Aug. 9, 2022 Will he be an inside hardball player, helping shake things up at CMS by asking questions and pressing for change to improve educational outcomes for children? Will he be a pitchman with a warm, empathetic air adept at bringing warring public parties together? Will he join the legions ... Continue Reading →
Aug. 1 a key date in CMS lunch program
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 →
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