CMS Prepares For The Start Of New School Year

CHARLOTTE, NC– We are less than two weeks away from the start of school in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, and the district is trying to fill more than 100 teacher vacancies.

Superintendent Ann Clark says CMS is expecting 147,000 students. That’s about 500 more than last year. School bus drivers will be back on the roads next week for dry runs.

This year clark says the district is taking a closer look at how they refer to student gender.

“Is there a need to say to your students as you’re heading to the cafeteria for lunch, ‘Boys and girls lets line up, boys in this line, girls in this line,’ there’s no pedagogical reason for doing that,” said Clark.

Also new this year is Gage, a two-year-old yellow lab trained to detect drugs. He will visit schools throughout the district.