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Ballantyne Breakfast Club Set For August 21 – Dr. Peter Gorman to Speak

Caroline Adams — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:46:21 +0000

Ballantyne, NC – The Ballantyne Breakfast Club will host CMS leader Dr. Peter Gorman on Saturday, August 21. School Board representative Tim Morgan, City Councilman Warren Cooksey and Michael Barnes are also expected to attend. The meeting will be at the Ballantyne Hotel in the Fairway Ballroom on the second level. Presentations will [...]

Ballantyne Public Policy Update – City/County Consolidation?

Caroline Adams — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:24:22 +0000

Ballantyne, NC - The hot topic for this August 6th morning meeting was cutting budgets. Former School Board member, Ken Gjertsen was talking about C.M.S. and ideas to save money. Can schools be used as community centers? What about using libraries as community centers? Several people talked about ideas on consolidating local [...]

CMS Board Approves Guiding Principles

Caroline Adams — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:18:32 +0000

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Aug. 10, 2010 – The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education adopted guiding principles at its Aug. 10 meeting. The principles were created and revised during the first phase of a comprehensive district review that began in June. Board members held work sessions and public forums to get input from the [...]

Ballantyne Public Policy Update, Affordable Housing Back on the Agenda and CMS Updates

Caroline Adams — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:38:06 +0000

Ballantyne, NC – July 2nd, 2010: The opening discussion was of the new North Carolina State budget that just passed in Raleigh on July 1st, 2010. The old formula would have given Mecklenburg County $20 million dollars and the new formula gives $11 million to the county. Unfortunately for our county, [...]

South Mecklenburg, Myers Park High Schools Recognized For Outstanding Pre-engineering Programs

Caroline Adams — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:21:27 +0000

CHARLOTTE, N.C., – Project Lead The Way (PLTW), the national certification board for the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, recognized two Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools for their pre-engineering programs. South Mecklenburg and Myers Park high school students may now earn college credit for PLTW courses taken in high school.

Representatives from Duke University and [...]

Hawk Ridge Elementary In Ballantyne To Get New Start Time

Caroline Adams — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:15:09 +0000

Ballantyne, NC – Hawk Ridge Elementary School parents were informed that the school bell would now ring almost two hours earlier this fall. Currently the school located on Bryant Farms Road has a start time of 8:30, thus allowing for the school drop off time not to conflict with the rush [...]

Nearly 20,000 Students Assigned To Magnet Programs Through First Lottery

ssherron — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:56:25 +0000

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Nearly 20,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools students were assigned to magnet programs during the first student-assignment lottery. Families will begin receiving notification letters this week. The letters inform parents of the school their child was placed in through the lottery process and how to ask for reassignment.

Questions to common student-assignment lottery questions. [...]

Mid-Year Graduation Ceremonies Set For Feb. 1

ssherron — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:47:27 +0000

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Jan. 25, 2010 – More than 300 high school seniors will graduate from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools mid-year graduation ceremonies held Feb. 1. Two ceremonies will be held at Bojangles Coliseum (2700 East Independence Blvd.) at 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. To view the graduation schedule click here. Dr. Peter C. Gorman, [...]

Omni Montessori School Accepting Haiti Donations

ssherron — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:49:48 +0000

The lower elementary classes are organizing a drive to collect crutches and canes to help victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. Sandy Craig, a local physician and Omni parent, will be traveling to Haiti with a Charlotte-based medical relief team that will include doctors, nurses, and paramedics. People from around the [...]

Charlotte Mecklenburg Student Assignment Lottery Opens

ssherron — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:02:47 +0000

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools student-assignment lottery application will open Friday, Jan. 8. CMS families can go online to apply for magnet programs and for seats in non-magnet schools with space available. The online lottery will be open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day through Feb. 7. On Feb. 8, [...]