Thousands of educators rallied in Raleigh May 1, as schools closed statewide and lawmakers debate competing proposals on teacher pay and education funding.
If the General Assembly declines to act when local governments repeatedly fail in this manner, the consequences will not remain confined to Mecklenburg County.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has split, 4-3, in ending the 32-year-old Leandro school funding case.
Rep. Tricia Cotham, R-Mecklenburg, won her race in the House District 105 Republican primary, defeating her opponent, Kelly VanHorn, an 8th-grade math teacher in Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, with 85% (4,368 votes) to VanHorn’s 15% (800 votes).
The North Carolina Supreme Court has determined that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools must contribute to a state retirement fund for school police. The court agreed unanimously. Meanwhile, the five Republican justices used the case to address the issue of "legislative history."
North Carolina’s highest court will decide in the months ahead whether the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system must spend more money to boost retirement pay for campus police. The court listened Tuesday to nearly an hour of oral arguments on the issue.
The state Court of Appeals has ruled that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools must pay into a state retirement fund for officers working for its campus police agency. The decision Tuesday reversed part of a lower court’s ruling against officers who filed suit against CMS in 2019.
A new state audit has revealed a troubling trend for student attendance records in six North Carolina school districts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and the Senate’s top officer are calling out Charlotte-Mecklenburg school leaders, after the state’s second-largest school system paid $25,000 to a top proponent of Critical Race Theory. The payment covered Ibram X. Kendi’s virtual presentation last week at the Charlotte school district’s Summer Leadership Conference. “This is clear and direct evidence...
CHARLOTTE — Even though Superintendent Heath Morrison promised to work with concerned parents soon after he took his current position in 2012, he has not recommended any changes to the schedule. Moreover, the district’s chief of staff reportedly has blocked teachers and parents who oppose the new schedule from expressing their concerns at public meetings.
CHARLOTTE — Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Peter Gorman plunged into one of the most contentious topics in public education last month by announcing his intention to begin basing teacher pay on effectiveness in the classroom, rather than on experience and academic degrees. But if experience is any guide, he’ll face plenty of opposition from teacher groups and their political allies.
