Warren Cooksey, no stranger to to the Forum after years as a member of Charlotte City Council, was back at the speaker’s table today in his new position with the N.C. Department of Transportation. The slides he presented are on this page, below the video clips of his presentation and the Q&A ... Continue Reading →
Ford points to shortfall in MBE record at N.C. DOT
N.C. Sen. Joel Ford provided for Forum readers the text of a North Carolina Department of Transportation report dated March 31, 2014 that indicated that, for the 2013 fiscal year, 2.76% of DOT contracts and other spending had been awareded to minority-owned firms, well short of the DOT goal of 6.7%. ... Continue Reading →
Graduation rate increase predicted for West Charlotte
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 →
Legislators report at Open Forum
The need for an agenda for change in the African-American community. Problems with a road project. Nurturing minority contractors. Broadening the Forum's list of topics discussed. There was a lot on the table today. But we begin below with a discussion with three members of the ... Continue Reading →
Gyasi Foluke offers a theory on community change
Dr. Gyasi Foluke rose from the audience today to give a short lecture on his theory on how to implement community change in the African-American community. He focused on a "system of communication" that turns out people to pressure community leaders to pursue a shared community agenda. "Once ... Continue Reading →
Trevor Fuller on sales tax referendum
Trevor Fuller, chair of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, argued Tuesday that commissioners have given the people a choice to authorize use of what powers commissioners have to raise funds to supplement teacher salaries. Among his arguments for the quarter-cent sales tax increase now ... 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 →
Trevor Fuller on budget, fall referendum
Trevor Fuller is an at-large member and currently serves as chair of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners. In the comments below at today's Forum, he addresses the county budget, which was approved later in the day, and the decision to put a sales tax increase on the November ballot. The ... Continue Reading →
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