Very high numbers of student suspensions last year, along with evidence that the same student behavior can be met with widely different disciplinary measures from school to school, appears to have launched a major effort within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools on discipline. One piece is already in ... Continue Reading →
Neighbors review Recreation Center renovation plans
Park and Recreation officials met Monday night with neighbors to discuss renovation plans for the West Charlotte Recreation Center. The roughly $1 million project is likely to close down the center from late spring to roughly December 2015. It will be the first major re-do of the heavily used ... Continue Reading →
Darrell Gregory
Our young men and women, especially those of color, are at war…They’re at war amongst themselves. They’re at war with the media. They’re at war with law enforcement. They’re at war with their families. They’re at war at school. They’re at war among their social peers. —Darrell Gregory Darrell ... Continue Reading →
Sept. 12-13 Indaba at Johnson C. Smith focuses on parent engagement
Malcolm Graham, director for community engagement and government affairs for the Center for Applied Research at Johnson C. Smith University, offered an invitation to all to attend the free event on Sept. 12-13. Details of a center study on parental engagement at area schools will be presented. ... Continue Reading →
Ford, Graham collaborate on legislative update
N.C. Sen. Joel Ford and N.C. Sen. Malcolm Graham provided a legislative update. Ford passed out a five-page document that is here. ... Continue Reading →
Warren Cooksey with DOT 101
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 →
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