On Friday, December 21st Gov. Cooper vetoed Senate Bill 469, a technical corrections bill which among other things, would have made municipal charter school employees eligible for ... Keep Reading
Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools
When sounding good is not enough
The North Carolina Senate and the House have now approved legislation that allows four municipalities in Mecklenburg County to create their own charter schools. Since the ... Keep Reading
ACT Scores – Not a Pretty Picture
NC requires all 11th-graders to take ACT exams WCPSS results: only one in four students ready for college System lacks accountability, lacks the ability to improve The ... Keep Reading
Poll results give CMS much to think about
Last week Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) released results of an unscientific but nonetetheless interesting poll about student assignment. We can boil down the findings to ... Keep Reading
Does school choice reduce crime?
The Spring 2012 issue of Education Next weighs into the school choice debate with an article by the same name. David Deming, as Assistant Professor at Harvard, analyzed data ... Keep Reading
A job well done
Hats off to Eric Frazier of the Charlotte Observer and Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) for putting together lots of useful information on the CMS budget and daring to go where ... Keep Reading
