CMS Board

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board made a decision last week about where to assign students across southern Mecklenburg County when new schools open in 2024 and 2025. The board now plans to tackle a broader review of student assignment, looking at what they learned from this round and how the district should move forward on creating the best opportunities for all students.

Superintendent Crystal Hill's controversial plan for southern school boundaries won 7-2 approval from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board Tuesday.

About 100 people spoke Tuesday at a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board meeting about potential changes to south Charlotte school boundaries to accommodate a new high school and middle school. The board is set to vote on the changes June 6.

A pair of matching voucher bills in the state House and Senate signal a shift in the way North Carolina pays for public education. Both are titled “Choose Your School, Choose Your Future,” and they’d remove income restrictions on receiving public money to pay private school tuition. Passage is virtually certain, given the bills’ powerful sponsors in a General Assembly with a veto-proof Republican majority.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board will interview a half-dozen applicants for superintendent, after its search consultants narrowed the field of 37 applicants.

This year’s third-graders took an especially hard hit from pandemic classroom disruptions. CMS Interim Superintendent Crystal Hill said she expects next year’s third-graders to rebound faster, but that’s little consolation for the kids who are moving toward the years when reading skills are essential for all subjects. Still, Tuesday’s review of the reading data was a victory of sorts.

The interim superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools says the district needs a 7% increase in county money to pay teachers more. That's essential to meeting academic goals, she says.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools must drop 10 construction projects to keep the bond total under $3 billion, staff told the school board Tuesday.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board Tuesday named Crystal Hill to lead the district for the next six or so months while the board seeks a permanent superintendent.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' new board members take over as the old ones bow out, the number of guns found drops in CMS, and North Carolina's school calendar controversy continues.