Meck Ed plays three important roles in mobilizing leadership, rallying resources, and engaging the community so all CMS students will achieve significant, measurable academic success:

Community Leader – engage the community, funders, policy makers, public and private organizations on behalf of Charlotte/Mecklenburg schools and students.

Reliable and trusted source of information – a learning organization that can be counted on to provide best practices information and objective measures for public education improvements and success.

Critical Friend  - partner with the Superintendent and School Board by supporting CMS on shared agenda initiatives; engage others to provide support for Superintendent and/or School board when change is necessary but unpopular or controversial; challenge and apply pressure, at times, when the School System needs a push to move forward.

CMS-Winthrop program aims to groom principals

Ann Doss Helms

Charlotte Observer

August 14, 2008

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and Winthrop University are teaming up to groom teachers, counselors and other front-line educators as future principals.

The Leaders for Tomorrow program is CMS's latest effort to ensure a supply of strong school leaders.  Superindendent Peter Gorman said Wednesday he's working on another effort, which he'll unveil soon, to recruit and train people from other occupations.  More>>

CMS hopes parents will pitch in

Eric Frazier

The Charlotte Observer

August 19, 2008

The system plans to show moms and dads how to help their children learn.

This could be the year parents go back to school.  Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Peter Gorman this fall plans to launch "Parent University", an initiative to train parents in how to work with their children, while also helping parents get an education of their own.  More>>