ONE Charlotte

01/04/2018

Smaller classes are good but not when funds for more teachers & facilities aren't provided.

06/21/2017

Mecklenburg County commissioners voted Tuesday to place a nearly $1 billion bond package for schools on the November ballot.

03/11/2017

Continue to improve our internal framework to better support our external members. Be on the look out for an early April update.

Stay tuned!

02/21/2017

After a well deserved reorganization period post $33.2 million capital needs victory, the O.N.E. Strategy Team makes plans for the upcoming year.

Anna Beeman, Jalisa Johnson, Louise Hindal, & Jarrod Jones.

Stay tuned!

01/15/2017

Superintendent selected & Phase II of Student Assignment begins

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board is scheduled to vote on a contract for incoming Superintendent Clayton Wilcox and get its first public report on possible revisions to neighborhood school boundaries on Tuesday. Wilcox also plans to start meeting community members this week.

11/11/2016

“It’s not going to immediately solve all the problems of unequal opportunity … but it gives us a very solid start"

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board approved a diversity-driven approach to magnet schools, with Wednesday’s unanimous vote coming after more than a year’s study. Changes take effect with January’s lottery.

10/03/2016

"Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the injustice of the past, we open up the possibility of using schools as a means of reducing inequality."

What underlay all the unrest in Charlotte? The segregation of once integrated public schools is a good place to start.

09/07/2016

🎉It passed!🎉
Despite great debate surrounding the agenda item preceding it, the board of county commissioners approved a $33 million advance of funds to pay for land acquisition, design and preconstruction costs for 13 capital projects. Planned projects will add seats for students at existing schools and build new schools including 3 elementary, 2 K8s & a new high school. Adding capacity to reduce overcrowding is a HUGE win for our kids!

A piece of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools land that had been slated for sale to a townhouse developer will instead remain undeveloped, after Mecklenburg County commissioners voted to ask CMS not to sell the land – and agreed to buy it themselves if the school system doesn’t agree.

08/09/2016

Are you looking for School Board members' contact info? Click the link below.

https://docs.google.com/a/educationalequity.org/document/d/1AXIxLiquGsACPfhzKSp5K670hn24UaDrmDluYwitN74/edit?usp=sharing

08/09/2016

The Capital Request package is finalized. A $40 million advance will be provided to focus on buying land and design/pre-construction items for the 2017 bond list.

This evening the School Board will have their regular board meeting 6 p.m. - CMGC, Meeting Chamber. ONE Charlotte put in a lot of work to get to where we are today. Please continue to tweet, text, or call your board members and request them to vote "yes" to the capital request.

http://www.cms.k12.nc.us/sites/agenda/Lists/Agenda%20Items/Attachments/3864/Capital%20Funding%20Request%20%207.28.16.pdf

08/08/2016

CALL TO ACTION:

CMS is holding sessions to get YOUR input about student assignment changes including the addition of socioeconomic factors in assignment and how they will be used

1) Please commit to attend AT LEAST one of these engagement forums
2) Recruit at least one friend to do the same.

Let us know of your commitment by simply saying "I will" in the comments

http://www.cms.k12.nc.us/mediaroom/Documents/Phase%20I%20Community%20Engagement%20Schedule.pdf