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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.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has drawn fire from two top Republicans, Senate leader Phil Berger and Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, over the superintendent's decision to pay anti-racism author Ibram X. Kendi to speak to district leaders. It's the lastest flare-up in a national battle over critical race theory and how to talk about racism.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Superintendent Earnest Winston has put his top staff on one- and two-year contracts, saying they can stay longer if they get results for students. The move comes as county commissioners scrutinize CMS racial gaps in academic outcomes.
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Mecklenburg County commissioners have cited low-performing schools and persistent racial gaps on test scores when they voted to withhold $56 million from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. They say they want to force CMS to produce a better school improvement plan. CMS leaders, meanwhile, have accused the county of mangling facts andtrying to take an oversight role that legally falls to the school board.
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Superintendent Earnest Winston got a contract extension, a 3% raise and some job security from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board Tuesday.
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Earnest Winston is now halfway through his three-year contract as superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, and the school board chair says the board has yet to discuss extending it.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Earnest Winston has been diagnosed with Bell's palsy after displaying symptoms of facial paralysis at a staff meeting Tuesday morning.
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Superintendent Earnest Winston kicked off this school year with a message about the quest to combat structural racism in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools."We…
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Three weeks ago, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Earnest Winston announced a new advisory group that would determine when schools return to…
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Superintendent Earnest Winston sent messages to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools employees, students and the community Sunday urging them to work against…