School Bonds

Here’s a roundup of what you need to know about the $2.5 billion in bonds for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Voters will decide the issue Nov. 7.

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…