Superintendent

Last week felt like the end of Crystal Hill's honeymoon as superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. This time last year she was the new hire, admired by community leaders and preparing to open schools in America's 16th largest district.

Less than six months after she stepped in to lead Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools on an interim basis, Crystal Hill was named superintendent of America’s 17th-largest school district.

A pair of matching voucher bills in the state House and Senate signal a shift in the way North Carolina pays for public education. Both are titled “Choose Your School, Choose Your Future,” and they’d remove income restrictions on receiving public money to pay private school tuition. Passage is virtually certain, given the bills’ powerful sponsors in a General Assembly with a veto-proof Republican majority.

Class is back in session at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. We sit down with interim Superintendent, Hugh Hattabaugh, to discuss teacher retention and pay, an improvement in test results (although they did not return to pre-pandemic levels), how the district plans to reduce chronic absenteeism and more.

On Tuesday, Mary McCray, a retired teacher, will hand off the gavel after seven years as chair of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board.It's been an…

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board has called a special meeting at 8 a.m. Friday morning to consider a personnel contract.That's the day…

The superintendent of the school system that serves Hagerstown, Maryland, is the next superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. The CMS board…