School Bonds

Mecklenburg County is preparing to borrow billions of dollars for new facilities, but some commissioners said at a Tuesday budget workshop that they’re worried the county isn’t spending enough to meet community needs.

I learned something from my colleague Steve Harrison last week: Partisan school board elections are more common in North Carolina than partisan city council races. Based on my experience in Mecklenburg County I had assumed the opposite was true.

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

After six weeks of meeting with the public to talk about neighborhood schools and magnets, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials say the 2023 student assignment update needs to offer more choices without massive upheaval.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board Wednesday approved a $125 million contract for a new high school that will relieve crowding at Ardrey Kell and South Meck in 2024.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board approved $67 million in construction contracts Tuesday, including $24 million to build a new elementary school in…

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has formally asked Mecklenburg County commissioners for more money to complete school construction projects.CMS sent county…

The $922 million in school bonds that voters approved in 2017 is no longer enough to cover all the projects promised during the campaign, a top…

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is scaling back on the size of new high schools it promised to build during the 2017 bond campaign, and district officials…

South Charlotte’s social media lit up this weekend with reports that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has chosen a site for a new southern high school. But…