Student Assignment

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.

A new national coalition that includes some of North Carolina’s largest school districts says integrating public schools offers a divided nation hope for racial equity and equal opportunity. For Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a 2022 student assignment review will provide a chance to try new diversity strategies.

Four years ago Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools launched a new diversity plan to break up concentrations of poverty. So far, officials acknowledge it’s hard…

When Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools combined Dilworth and Sedgefield elementary schools in 2017, it was seen as part of a bold experiment to undo…

In 2017, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board launched an experiment in reversing resegregation by merging pairs of elementary schools with very…

Up to 180 students could be reassigned from Elizabeth Lane Elementary School to Lansdowne Elementary. That’s according to a plan that’s up for a public…

It was a long and often contentious night for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board members Wednesday as they voted to approve a student assignment plan…

CMS now has a student assignment plan after a 6 1/2 hour meeting that was often contentious.The closest votes involved changes to k-8 schools on the…

Wednesday, May 24, 2017On Wednesday night, the CMS School Board will vote on the immensely complex student assignment plan. Prior to that vote, we hear…

Some controversial parts of the proposed student assignment plan for Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools are being revised in preparation for a board vote on it…