History, Geography and CMS - The Tour

MeckEd and Levine Museum of the New South invite you to join a lively and interactive exploration of the historical context behind Charlotte's school issues.  We'll learn some school history, focusing on Charlotte's experience as the U.S. test case for court ordered busing.  Mostly we'll be looking at patterns of economic separation and racial segregation over time.  More>>

For more information, contact Rosalyn Allison-Jacobs rajacobs@mecked.org, or Sarah Pierce

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Mecklenburg Citizens for Public Education is a nonprofit organization that mobilizes leadership, rallies resources, and engages the community so that all Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools students achieve significant and measureable academic success.

Relevant Local Education News

Report cites disparity in CMS spending

Ann Doss Helms - The Charlotte Observer - 01-27-10

Per-pupil spending is highest in Charlotte-Mecklenburg's small, high-poverty schools and lowest in large suburban ones, a report released Tuesday shows. More>>

Gorman's gamble for better schools

Ann Doss Helms - The Charlotte Observer - 01-26-10

Dynamic. Charismatic. Inspirational.

Those are terms that evaluation teams used to describe some of the principals Superintendent Peter Gorman ousted as part of his signature quest to improve schools. More>>

Noteworthy National News

No Child Left Behind revamp pitched

Sam Dillon - New York Times - 02-02-10

The Obama administration said on Monday that it would ask Congress to raise education spending by about $3.5 billion, a 7.5 percent increase, for the 2011 fiscal year, even as it sought to limit other categories of domestic spending. More>>

Revolutionary Educators

Nicole Perlroth and Katy Finneran - Forbes.com - 12-21-09

What is needed is a revolutionary approach. The 14 educators on our list are taking radical tacts, and in many cases, they are accomplishing the seemingly impossible.  More