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Student Assignment Discussion In North Mecklenburg

Ann Doss Helms
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Charlotte Observer
Superintendent Ann Clark (standing, right) and District 1 school board member Rhonda Lennon address a packed house at Cornelius Town Hall on Thursday.

North Mecklenburg County residents gathered last week to discuss student assignment in the CMS system. The area’s school board representative, Rhonda Lennon, organized the meeting.

A little about Lennon’s District: It includes four high schools. Two are considered average by state grading standards. Those are Hopewell and North Meck. The others, Mallard Creek and Hough, are higher-performing schools.

Mallard Creek is two-thirds black, 16 percent white, and 9 percent Latino.

Hough is 76 percent white, 11 percent black, and 7 percent Latino. The school is located in Cornelius, where the student assignment meeting was held. A full house of parents and CMS Superintendent Ann Clark attended. So did WFAE’s Gwendolyn Glenn.

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.