CMS Board

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education’s recent suspension and investigation of Superintendent Crystal Hill has left her job in flux. Hill is the seventh superintendent in 15 years at CMS, and the lack of updates is leaving parents and teachers with a sense of déjà vu.

The cost of the investigation into Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Crystal Hill won’t be clear until the investigation is finished.

Classes are out at CMS for the summer, but tensions over education policy and administration linger. Superintendent Dr. Crystal Hill was put on paid leave while the board investigates administrative oversight matters. We’ll discuss the latest from CMS, look back at some of the significant events of the last school year, and examine the growing pushback against classroom technology.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Crystal Hill says she has “not been told” about what specific concerns prompted the investigation that led to the CMS Board suspending her this week.

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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Dr. Crystal Hill has been placed on leave amid an investigation into how the district is run, the school board said Wednesday. Hill has been on the job for more than three years.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board has adopted its first policy addressing student free speech, following several incidents involving political expression during the past school year.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools families asked the CMS board to reduce technology use in classrooms, urging members to rethink policies that provide every student with a device and to reconsider the online platform i-Ready.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education has taken a step toward creating a long-planned “educator community,” a roughly 100-unit affordable housing development for CMS educators.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education plans to hire an outside firm to conduct a broad compliance assessment of the district.