CMS Board

Board member Anna London chairs the new four-person committee. She says members will draw from past superintendent searches to establish a process and timeline.

Three Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board members who voted last month to retain former Superintendent Crystal Hill will make up the majority of the committee tasked with finding her successor.

Six Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools will become community schools in the 2027-28 school year. The model aims to get families more involved in their local public schools.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board has updated its organizational chart and added it to its website, after a WFAE report noted that there was no readily available chart reflecting a series of organizational changes to legal and compliance functions that the board undertook earlier this year.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board says it will create a working group charged with implementing recommendations that came out of its two-month investigation into former Superintendent Crystal HIll.

Angry speakers told the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board Tuesday that they’re upset with the board’s surprise decision last month to fire Superintendent Crystal Hill, and some said the board members should have been the ones to go instead.

The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office confirmed Monday that they’re investigating Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, joining state agencies probing the district’s finances.

The fallout over the firing of CMS Superintendent Crystal Hill continues with dissension on the board and another CMS executive staff resignation; Charlotte City Council passes a new 10 p.m. curfew for teens under 18; Mooresville Mayor Chris Carney is out, and, with Election Day a month away, U.S. Senate races in both Carolinas are in the spotlight.

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and state Board of Education on Thursday announced a review into Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools amid the district’s ongoing turmoil.

Former Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Crystal Hill said in a leaked memo that former board Chair Stephanie Sneed secured a $30,000-a-month consulting subcontract for political ally Raki McGregor without Hill's knowledge. The deal came after Mecklenburg County cut ties with his wife's consulting business, and former County Manager Dena Diorio told WFAE that McGregor threatened to sue her over it.