Aug. 17, 2021 Watching their Covid updates and their employee vacancy lists, members of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education today fielded questions from Forum participants about plans for the coming year. Chairperson Elyse Dashew did most of the presentation. Five members of the board ... Continue Reading →
Hechinger Report looks at grade structure
Aug. 16, 2021 Writer Kelly Field focused on Charlotte K-8s and middle schools to explore the question in the headline: “Can you fix middle school by getting rid of it?” Her answer, of course, is that it is complicated, but that the key fixes have little to do with grade structure and everything to ... Continue Reading →
Critical Race Theory: A Primer
Aug. 10, 2021 Longtime paralegal and former school board chair Arthur Griffin focused on the academic underpinnings and legal focus of the originators of a variety of analyses that seem to get mixed together in some Americans' current obsession with "critical race theory." Board of County ... Continue Reading →
Open Forum
Aug. 3, 2021 A not-at-all-funny thing happened on the way to gathering intelligence on what's on the community's mind: Today's Open Forum was dominated by the fallout from Covid-19 and the new Delta variant. School masking. Evictions. How to persuade the unvaccinated. The stresses and strains of ... Continue Reading →
Assisting people living with AIDS
July 27, 2021 If those dealing with other health issues had advocates as passionate as the three people who addressed the Forum about HIV/AIDS treatment this morning, the human race would be a more confident bunch. Janice Shirley of Charlotte, with roots at Myers Park High, is focused on linking ... Continue Reading →
UNC president reflects on Hannah-Jones controversy
July 23, 2021 Joel Ford sent in a link to UNC System President Peter Hans’ July 22 report to the UNC Board of Governors on which Ford serves. The report included Hans’ veiled but clear reference to the controversy sparked by the tenure fight over journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. “My job,” ... Continue Reading →
Arthur Griffin on 3 issues facing CMS
July 13, 2021 Nearly two hours into a three-hour CMS Board of Education session to listen to public comment, former board chair and longtime Forum participant Arthur Griffin offered, in his allotted two minutes, his thoughts on three of the biggest issues facing the board: Student ... Continue Reading →
Mediation ends latest County-CMS skirmish
July 8, 2021 The latest county-CMS funding dispute came to an end June 24 with a mediated settlement that was approved by County Commissioners July 8. County and CMS statements on the subject, and the text of the agreement, are below. No children learned a thing from the flap, but all staff and ... Continue Reading →
Healthy food, healthy futures
June 22, 2021 Vivian Stuart came out of retirement to boost the fortunes of the Rosa Parks Farmers Market. Reggie Singleton has his day job at the county's Health Department, but for nearly 30 years he has built The Males Place, a mentoring project working with regular kids and sowing the seeds ... Continue Reading →
Retired superintendent joins Diorio in critique of CMS leadership
James F. Pughsley served as CMS superintendent from 2002 to 2005. He submitted this piece to The Charlotte Observer under the headline, "In Times of Crisis: Leadership for Results." By Dr. James L. Pughsley, CMS Superintendent (Ret.) Effective leadership and execution, not the lack of funding, ... Continue Reading →
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