In light of the increased cases of cornonavirus and the need to keep students and teachers safe, CMS has reviesed their plan to re-open schools. CMS has moved to full remote learning. To learn more, click here.
Get answers for your CMS High School Seniors! How is the pandemic going to effect their final school year? What about their big dreams of going to prom and walking across stage to get their diplomas? CMS has postponed a return to school until May 15th. Get answers for your CMS High School Seniors regarding […]
School starts in less than 2 weeks and the Charlotte Mecklenburg School System still needs to fingerprint thousands of employees who were hired or re-hired for the 2018-2019 school year. Fingerprinting was required, but, it was skipped over during their original background checks, per instructions from the former School Superintendent Dr. Clayton Wilcox, who ended […]
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board voted unanimously last night to approve Phase 1 of a new student assignment plan. The plan will give priority to disadvantaged student, assigning them with consideration of the family income, level of education, and neighborhood in which they live. The board hopes the plan will create 13,000 new magnet seats for […]
Charlotte Hornets guard, Jeremy Lin is wasting no time in making a difference in our community. Determined to end bullying, Lin has launched a creative…
Carolina Panther quarterback stood in middle of a group of Charlotte middle schoolers asking which school would win School Pride Day at Memorial Stadium. The shouts rang out: Thomasboro, MLK… “Take the XBox away….just get outside and play and that’s what this is about,” Newtown said. More than 720 students and administrators from 40 Charlotte-Mecklenburg […]
New CMS Superintendent Heath Morrison cracked joked, flashed a winning smile and was quick witted during a talk to the Charlotte Chamber in Ballantyne last…
Three superintendent finalists will visit Charlotte on Wednesday to meet Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools staff and community members. The names of the three finalists will be released Monday. Community members can submit questions for the finalists to answer during panel discussions that will be held throughout the community. The panel discussions will be 1 p.m. – 5:45 […]
NAACP President Kojo Nantambu blasted CMS superintendent Peter Gorman’s decision to make up a snow day on Dr. Martin Luther King’s Holiday. “Once again Dr. Gorman has shown total disdain and disrespect for a very significant part of this community. He continues to demonstrate a blatant deliberate disconnect with the African American Community,” said Rev. […]
By Tanya Wilson 360You Earlier this week, while watching the news, I was struck by two stories; despite them taking place in different states, they were connected by one theme ‘tragic’. My heart broke as I listened to a young female student, standing at the microphone in defense of the closing of Waddell High School, […]
VIA NEW YORK TIMES A new report to be released on Tuesday show that black student’ proficiency in core subjects is worse than people realize. According to the study, only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys, and only 12 percent of black eighth-grade boys […]
The rancor during last night’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board meeting rose to acrimonious levels as accusations of racism flew, rudeness prevailed and a few people were handcuffed. The board voted to close Waddell High and make it the new home for Smith Language Academy, a K-8 magnet. Harding High will turn into a neighborhood school housing […]
