Oct. 2, 2012 CMS Board of Education District 2 member Richard McElrath made these comments to the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Forum on Oct. 2, 2012 about staff changes already under way under new Supt. Heath Morrison. ... Continue Reading →
Candidates for N.C. House, Senate address Forum
Sept. 25, 2012 Candidates for N.C. House seats addressed the Forum Tuesday. Senate candidate Dan Clodfelter was unable to attend the Sept. 18 session, so joined them today. While it is Forum policy to invite all candidates on the ballot, all of those who attended are Democrats, and none were ... Continue Reading →
Sen. Charlie Dannelly: An Appreciation
Sept. 25, 2012 N.C. Sen. Dan Clodfelter offered this appreciation of N.C. Sen. Charlie Dannelly, who will retire after the November election. ... Continue Reading →
Title I briefing
Sept. 25, 2012 Two CMS staffers offered a briefing Tuesday on the federal Title I program and how Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools uses the funds to offer educational services to the targeted low-income children. Below are three videos. The first is an introductory presentation by Yvette Smith, CMS ... Continue Reading →
3 candidates for N.C. Senate discuss issues facing state government
Sept. 18, 2012 Three of the eight candidates on the Mecklenburg ballot for N.C. Senate seats addressed the Forum today. Malcolm Graham, left, faces Earl Lyndon Philip in District 40. Jeff Tarte, center, is unopposed in District 41. Joel Ford, right, faces Richard Rivette in District 38. In ... Continue Reading →
Morrison returns to Forum, answers questions on CMS
Sept. 11, 2012 On a day when the opening prayer invoked the sacrifices made on this day in 2001, Supt. Heath Morrison praised Charlotte-Mecklenburg teachers for their efforts and offered a number of observations he's made in his three months on the job. Morrison was last at the Forum on April ... Continue Reading →
Murrey on plans for alternative venues for acceptance speech
Sept. 6, 2012 Dan Murrey sent out the following information late this afternoon: "Thank you for your patience today as the final night of the convention shifts from Bank of America Stadium to the Time Warner Cable Arena due to severe weather forecasts. "You are one of our community ... Continue Reading →
Head of training effort says group is listening to employers’ needs
Aug. 28, 2012 Steve Partridge runs the federally funded job retraining program in Mecklenburg County. Born in the 1960s as CETA, and having had several other names, it reorganized itself this year as Charlotte Works. And, says Partridge, it set about trying to do a better job of listening to ... Continue Reading →
Foluke on ‘Black boys are dying young and needlessly’
Aug. 28, 2012 Dr. Gyasi Foluke, in the video below, responds to an opinion column by Charlotte Observer Associate Editor Fannie Flono headlined "Black boys are dying young and needlessly." Flono's Aug. 16 column dealt with the death two days earlier in Charlotte of 13-year-old Khalil Malik Cousart, ... Continue Reading →
Preparations for DNC security
Aug. 21, 2012 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Rodney Monroe today addressed the Forum on security preparations for the Democratic National Convention. Monroe was part of a presentation that also included three officials from the DNC Host Committee: Dr. Dan Murrey, executive director; Torre ... Continue Reading →