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A week ago, students walked out of Olympic High School. They were protesting that a football player who was charged with a felony sex offense was allowed to participate in a recent game while wearing a court-ordered electronic monitoring device. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Earnest Winston took a few minutes Friday to speak to reporters about last week’s walkout.

A six-week budget standoff between Mecklenburg County commissioners and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board over $56 million is over. The county agreed to give the district the money — along with an extra $11 million.

The Charlotte City Council and mayor are likely to get four or five months added to their two-year terms because of U.S. Census Bureau delays in reporting data. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board? Some will likely get an extra year to their four-year terms. Why the disparity?

The battle over money for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system has gotten a little personal. But WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in his On My Mind commentary, says the back-and-forth doesn’t address a much bigger problem with Charlotte as a whole.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will allow high school sports and many extracurricular activities to resume after all were put on pause for three weeks following a county health directive.

Vance High School will be renamed Tuesday, possibly for civil rights lawyer Julius Chambers.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools says all students should now be able to connect to the internet for remote learning. But the path to meeting that goal has been a twisty one.

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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is hoping that thousands more families sign up this week for meals delivered by school buses or picked up from schools.The…

Three weeks ago, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Earnest Winston announced a new advisory group that would determine when schools return to…