By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: April 11,2011
Bidders interested in leasing buildings owned by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will have a chance to tour the facilities next week. The sites — 11 school buildings — will be closed as part of CMS’ plans to reduce operating costs. Bidding began March 4, and bids will be accepted until 2 p.m. May 13. The tours will [...]
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: March 18,2011
Stephan Askew would like to get his hands on a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools building. The founder of The Q Foundation, which offers services for at-risk children, including tutoring and mentoring programs, Askew said his organization resides in a small office off Monroe Road. But a CMS building would allow him to expand his programs and serve [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: February 25,2011
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is making schools that will be closed in the upcoming school year available for lease. CMS said a bidding process will be used to choose who will lease the buildings, which are on the campuses of Davidson IB, Midwood High, Pawtuckett Elementary, Smith Language Academy, Amay James Pre-K and Wilson Middle. Double Oaks Pre-K, [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: February 1,2011
The CMS Investment Study Group has unveiled a program that aims to generate $55 million in private funding to improve the education for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools students in the west Charlotte corridor. Under a five-year plan, Project Leadership and Investment for Transformation will help students attending West Charlotte High School and the middle and elementary schools that feed it. [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: January 27,2011
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education has approved changing school bell schedules and reducing funding for its weighted-student staffing program as part of a plan by Superintendent Peter Gorman to cut $100 million from the district’s 2011-12 operating budget. The board gave its approval this week. But the board deferred a third recommendation from Gorman [...]
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: January 20,2011
A call by the local NAACP to boycott the CIAA basketball tournament and other large sporting events is not sitting well with some black businesspeople in Charlotte who say it would hurt black businesses. During an executive board meeting Tuesday of the Charlotte chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Kojo [...]
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: November 19,2010
With some public schools in the county set to consolidate or close after changes approved this month, many in the public are wondering about the impacts. But the changes, such as shifting popular and high-performing academic programs from one neighborhood to another, could affect more than parents and students. Experts say the major changes set [...]
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: November 12,2010
Much has been made of the potential negative consequences of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools closures and consolidations — whether they will affect students’ ability to learn or teachers’ ability to teach. But some members of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Gang Intelligence Unit are concerned that CMS’s recent budget cuts and school closings may have unintended consequences [...]
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: November 5,2010
With the board of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools scheduled to vote Tuesday, the final bell is about to toll for some schools as part of its controversial Case for Continuous Improvement program, a plan that calls for closing some schools. Faced with a recession-pinched budget, CMS is planning to make changes at about 70 schools, including consolidating [...]
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: November 5,2010
Despite the red wave that swept the House of Representatives across the country Tuesday, the Democrats on the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners were able to hang on to their majority, losing only one seat. Although all six seats held by Democrats on the Board of Commissioners were challenged by Republicans — the three incumbent [...]
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