The budget battle rages on between county leaders and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Commissioners are moving forward with plans to withhold $56 million from the district over concerns about failing schools.
While studying at Howard University, young Chadwick Boseman helped lead a student protest against plans to merge his beloved College of Fine Arts into the College of Arts and Sciences. Now, he is being honored as the namesake of Howardβs newly re-established Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts.
Charlotte Mecklenburg detectives have identified 16-year-old Elijah Riggan as the gunshot victim in this case.
The new E.E. Waddell Magnet High School is scheduled to open for the 2022 β 23 school year. The CMS Board of Education is trying to finalize what magnet programs will be offered through Waddell and will vote on the recommendation this summer.
Officials with Third Creek Middle School announced Friday afternoon that all students will learn virtually for the week of May 17th through May 21st, due to a reported COVID cluster.
Out of all the teachers in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Demeka Kimpson was voted as this year's best.
Demoralizing. That's what 7th-grade CMS teacher Justin Parmenter is calling HB 755 or βAn Act to Ensure Academic Transparency." The bill passed the North Carolina House last week by a 66-50 vote and is now moving to the Senate. There are reports some GOP lawmakers say the legislation is necessary because they are concerned about what children are learning.
The Charlotte Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, has donated $10,000 to the Children's Defense Fund in order to purchase 750 books for children in need.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools have increased the number of guests allowed to attend in-person graduation ceremonies to four guests per graduate.
The North Carolina Association of Educators' "We β€οΈΒ Public Schools" tour is making a stop in Union County on Saturday, April 24th to celebrate educators hard work and stress the need for funding at all N.C.'s public schools.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools plans to hold in-person graduation ceremonies for the class of 2021.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed three education bills on Friday to help address learning loss incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic and expand access to in-state tuition for military dependents whose parents were reassigned to another location.
Students can safely sit just 3 feet apart in the classroom as long as they wear masks but should be kept the usual 6 feet away from one another at sporting events, assemblies, lunch or chorus practice, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines.
Officials with the Cabarrus County Board of Education say the board voted unanimously in a meeting on Friday to approve a plan that will allow middle and high students to return to school four days a week beginning Tuesday, April 13th.
North Carolina lawmakers gave their final approval on Thursday to a directive that will put more K-12 students in classrooms five days a week by telling all districts to offer in-person instruction no later than early April.
Governor Roy Cooper and leaders of the General Assembly announced compromise legislation Wednesday during a bipartisan press conference.
