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Lake Norman Chamber Opposes CMS School Bonds

The Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce joins Huntersville and Cornelius town commissions in opposing the nearly $1 billion dollar bond package for Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools. 

A statement issued by the chamber last night said its board isn’t satisfied with the way CMS officials decided which schools were overcrowded and where new schools would be built or expanded. Two weeks ago, chamber President Bill Russell said many board members felt CMS officials didn’t take into consideration the unprecedented growth the region is experiencing. The bond package, which goes before voters in November, includes funds for 17 new school and 12 renovation and expansion school projects. Nine projects are slated for North Mecklenburg, including five new schools. 

Gwendolyn is an award-winning journalist who has covered a broad range of stories on the local and national levels. Her experience includes producing on-air reports for National Public Radio and she worked full-time as a producer for NPR’s All Things Considered news program for five years. She worked for several years as an on-air contract reporter for CNN in Atlanta and worked in print as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun Media Group, The Washington Post and covered Congress and various federal agencies for the Daily Environment Report and Real Estate Finance Today. Glenn has won awards for her reports from the Maryland-DC-Delaware Press Association, SNA and the first-place radio award from the National Association of Black Journalists.