Ann Doss Helms

How do you organize a 40-member committee with a charge so broad and daunting that it’s stumped experts for decades?

Room 201 at East Mecklenburg High School has a bed, a kitchenette, a washer and a dryer. It’s designed to feel like a studio apartment -- and to help a group of students prepare for life after high school. 

A panic alarm system that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools had touted as a way to make schools safer doesn’t work, Superintendent Earnest Winston said Friday.

Leaders of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools are looking at easing up a bit on a policy that demands automatic firing for drug and alcohol offenses. 

A Myers Park High School senior’s quest to make Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools sex education more relevant to teens won applause from school board members Thursday.  But those board members were told they were powerless to make the change. 

North Carolina’s charter schools are seeing troubling trends in academic performance, even as their popularity grows.

Mecklenburg County's charter school enrollment grew to 21,028 this year, an even bigger increase than Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools budgeted for.

Whenever the spotlight turns to struggling schools and failing students, there’s another question that bubbles up: How well are America’s teacher preparation programs doing their job? 

Last summer, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools rolled out a new look and a new website. Over winter break, after spending more than $200,000 on the new site, CMS pulled the plug, saying people didn’t like it. 

Charlotte-based Duke Energy will have to excavate nearly 80 million tons of coal ash from six North Carolina sites — including Allen Steam Station in Belmont — as part of a settlement between the company, the state and several community groups.

Hidden Valley Elementary School serves a small northeast Charlotte neighborhood just off Interstate 85. But every morning’s car line includes taxis and shuttles bringing children from much farther away.

The Charlotte area has plenty of public, charter and private schools, but in August, it will get a whole new type of school designed to help students who need a new option. 

Tuesday's holiday concert at William Amos Hough High School in Cornelius will showcase a program that unites some of the school’s best student musicians with classmates who have disabilities.

In the past 20 years, Mary Nell McPherson has built Charlotte’s Freedom School Partners into a local institution with a national reputation.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board abolished the district's graduation project Tuesday. But district leaders say they won’t stop pushing students to learn research and presentation skills.