May 13, 2024 Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont today published its 2023 annual report. The entire report is available as a PDF download here. The 16 pages of the report are below. Links to videos referenced in the report are ... Continue Reading →
Summer programs aim to stimulate teen interest in STEM
May 7, 2024 From Victor Mack, director of the UNCC Center for STEM Education's Pre-College Program. For details on costs, dates, etc., follow links below. The UNC Charlotte Center for STEM Education Pre-College Program is currently enrolling students for its Summer Scholars programs. The goal ... Continue Reading →
2 execs explain issues that businesses are addressing at CMS
April 30, 2024 Two Charlotte business executives were invited to update the community and the Forum about the work of the ongoing Charlotte Executive Leadership Council. The group, represented a wide swath of Charlotte's corporate citizens, is pouring staff time, talent and treasure into ... Continue Reading →
Black maternal health in crisis; discrimination seen as cause
April 9, 2024 The crisis in Black maternal health, doula Robin Price told the Forum this morning, is not in the lack of access to medical facilities. Or in lack of money. Of the 2018-19 deaths among N.C. women during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period, she said, a state report judged 85% ... Continue Reading →
People can help you through the annual health insurance thicket
Nov. 14, 2022 Three people who work with the labyrinth of health insurance coverage rules offered lots of information this morning. The session was timely: Medicare’s open enrollment period closes in a few weeks, and a similar Affordable Care Act deadline looms in January. But if you come away ... Continue Reading →
The Males Place
Oct. 31, 2023 The nonprofits that are continuing to do good after 30 years are relatively rare. The Males Place is in its 30th year, and is continuing its chosen mission of focusing resources, knowledge and huge quantities of adult love and guidance on preparing teenaged boys to develop into ... Continue Reading →
School bond advocates encounter pushback
Oct. 10, 2023 Just over 30 days from when Mecklenburg voters weigh in on a $2.5 billion bond proposal for CMS school construction and renovation, Forum participants today peppered representatives from the Vote Yes for Bonds group and from CMS with questions: Why is new construction sold as a ... Continue Reading →
Grit runs in the family: New CMS Supt. Dr. Crystal L. Hill
July 18, 2023 North Carolina's second-largest K-12 school district is in the hands of a veteran educator. That is not to say that everything she will initiate during her superintendency will be welcomed by every educator. But Dr. Crystal L. Hill presents herself as determined to use what ... Continue Reading →
The bumpy road to business success
July 11, 2023 This morning's Forum featured two women on different paths. Their businesses are not connected or related. But each presenter's story prompted both questions and suggestions from Forum participants. Each could do with a little help from their friends. Sharon Geter started making ... Continue Reading →
Achievement gaps between schools: Do they stem from ‘management problem’?
June 18, 2023 The material on this page was written by Bolyn McClung, an occasional Forum participant and longtime CMS observer, and is published with his permission. The text and graphs are in a PDF that may be downloaded here. The piece is entitled, “The Heartbreak of Being a CMS Academic ... Continue Reading →
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