Police eject Polo Ridge parent Shailesh Shukla after shouting erupted in the audience as Jennifer De La Jara is speaking, The Ledgers Cristina Bolling says. Daughter will attend Myers Park next year. The Ledgers Cristina Bolling will be on the scene at the Government Center and will have a full story in Wednesdays edition of The Ledger. Type of Assignment. The application form can be completed in multiple sittings. Im guessing they will take another short break. Superintendent Crystal Hill, in her first report to the school board after being appointed superintendent last week, thanks the school board for appointing her. cms school locator Verified 2 days ago Url: https://www.cmsk12.org/Page/7563 Go Now Like what we are doing? If you need to subscribe, to our free or paid version, Here, once again, is the main plan that will be voted on. Now there are 3,500 students involved. How to watch: You can watch the meeting yourself on the Board of Educations Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/cmsboe/, Review the plan: Here is the plan up for a vote tonight: https://go.boarddocs.com/nc/cmsnc/Board.nsf/files/CSCMGG5A9FA7/$file/Superintendent's Recommendation South County Relief FINAL DECK.pptx.pdf. For help completing your application form, refer to the frequently asked questions (FAQ) and Help buttons at the bottom of each page. There is no logic to it, said Polo Ridge data workgroup parent. It appears that the two no votes were Summer Nunn and Lisa Cline. We are almost to the end of public comments. Says proposal would mean longer commutes and possibly subject them to scandals like sexual assault on CMS buses. Executive editor:Tony Mecia;Managing editor:Cristina Bolling;Staff writer: Lindsey Banks; Contributing editor: Tim Whitmire, CXN Advisory; Contributing photographer/videographer: Kevin Young, The 5 and 2 Project. I will support this plan, and I ask you to support it, too. Click ALL SCHOOLS in the top menu bar for all Elementary, Middle and High schools. District 4. Turn that energy towards making this new boundary plan work for you, your children and all the children in CMS. Dennis LaCaria, Claire Schuch and Walter Hall at the board meeting tonight: Board member Lisa Cline, who represents part of south Charlotte, says she will support the plan. Most are on phones, but a decent number are continuing to hold up their signs. Says Ballantyne Elementary helps balance socioeconomic status at Ardrey Kell. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools A rendering of a new high school planned in Charlotte. Schuch leads the districts planning services department, which is responsible for tasks ranging from drawing boundaries for new schools to devising plans to accommodate for growth and shifting populations. We are not yet to the public comments section. View from Cotswold: Cooking some enchiladas for dinner tonight. Some parents in the OP area whose kids are not headed to Providence have been highlighting (in emails and conversations) that Cline lives in the small portion that will go to Providence. Stick with The Ledger for continuing coverage of this issue and other important local news and insights. It was stating a logistical fact, not in any way shape or form a criticism.. QMS is committed to improved achievement and personal growth in an inclusive, positive, learning environment. explained the Thornhill situation last week, Blindsided neighborhoods fight CMS boundary plan, Opt in or out of different newsletters on your My Account page. Photo courtesy of CMS. Some of the most vocal groups we are expected to hear from tonight on school assignment: The Governors Square and Foxcroft East neighborhoods in the SouthPark area, who now attend Alexander Graham and Myers Park High, and would shift to South Meck under latest plan. But it does not smell good., Says there was a complete lack of transparency and communication.. Then its on to the main event. To skip between groups, use Ctrl+LEFT or Ctrl+RIGHT. Since he was called upon. Chair Elyse Dashew says shes encouraged to see so many people engaged in their childrens education. You can drop it in the comments (if you are a paying Ledger member). June 22, 2023 at 9:00 PM - 8:59 PM. It is literally a cutout. I promise we wont drink anything. Its roughly the price of two Starbucks lattes a month. . Schultz says tonights version is the same as released on May 15, with a few small technical corrections. Jun 6, 2023 9 14 Share Good evening! This is in reference to a portion of Sharon Elementary a part that goes to AG, south of Fairview Road, would be switched to South Meck. Some have implied that Ballantyne Elementary is a bunch of wealthy people because the area includes Ballantyne Country Club, though parents there say thats an inaccurate perception because the area includes areas of low socioeconomic status. The Ledgers Cristina Bolling and Lindsey Banks are on the scene tonight at the Government Center and will have a full story in Wednesdays edition of The Ledger. A parent of rising 5th graders at Olde Providence Elementary: Why would we break a feeder pattern for only 10% of the cohort population? Said its hard to see the South Meck/Providence split in Olde Providence as anything other than a gerrymandered map.. Or ask JC? Overall, 7% of CMS students are Asian, according to CMS data. Yall are trying to conflate multiple conversations as if it was one conversation that goes together. All. : I agree someone said it. We are going to have a fantastic end-of-year, and this is an exciting time to be at Carmel. She became a teacher, principal and now a board member. A Polo Ridge dad said at an end-of-school gathering at a community swim club recently, he realized that our kids wont have lifelong friends because the school is being split up. Our Cristina Bolling is just about to the Government Center, and well get an update from her soon. Sponsorship information/customer service: emailsupport@cltledger.com. I believe Cline said in her remarks she would support the plan Im going back and rewatching to see what she said exactly and will let you know. Families can submit applications between Nov. 30 and Dec. 13 from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Log back into the application system at any time using your email address and password. Board member George Dee Rankin says CMS needs feedback from a survey, asking parents: What do you want us to accomplish besides the south boundaries? (Crowd laughed and held up signs. Thank you guys for all your hard work! Can use leave a comment feature. To navigate through the Ribbon, use standard browser navigation keys. Looking at the agenda for tonights school board meeting, we could be in for a long night. Q uality M otivation S uccess. Cmon. ), If youve been following the south Charlotte boundary issue in The Ledger over the last couple of weeks, you may remember that Polo Ridge parents also chartered a bus to the last board meeting on May 23. Cristina (who is at the Government Center tonight), Two school board members at-large member. Theyre destroying communities because theyre creating winners and losers out of a whim. The revisions released Monday pleased some areas including Ballantyne Elementary and parts of Olde Providence that had earlier lodged complaints about proposals that they said would shift students to schools too far away or split them from peers. Polo Ridge parents hitting the opening two schools argument hard. I just wanted to say that out loud. Details here. About 27,000 could have been impacted by changes, he says. Stick with The Ledger for continuing coverage of this issue and other important local news and insights. : Since Im sitting in the audio booth watching the actual mics and the conversations, I know exactly what happened. Public Schools offer K-12 education at elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools located in Mecklenburg County. We strive for fairness and accuracy and will correct all known errors. Big rounds of applause, with a lot of people in the chamber. There is expected to be a strong showing by Polo Ridge parents, Under the latest plan, Polo Ridge would go to the new middle school in Rea Farms, then to the new high school off Johnson Road. The charlotte community appreciates it! CMS has drawn up four draft assignment scenarios and is refining them, before a public release of the plans and an expected school board vote in February. Speaker from Polo Ridge says she is an immigrant and prefers they stay at Polo Ridge. Regarding the school assignment plan, I am not here to say it is corruption because I dont have proof. QMS Year End Awards. Thank you Cristina ,very much appreciate you. Nunns remarks sounded supportive, and she worked hard on this topic. Dennis LaCaria has said CMS used artificial intelligence to compile parent feedback. (On the other side of the coin, almost 24,000 students got the assignment requested. Beyond entitled. We offer a. for full access to all 4 of our local newsletters: Feel free to forward this along and to tell a friend. Can be graded for completion or accuracy. We dont know exactly what those are but tonight we will find out. Four years ago, Thornhill was rezoned fromCommunity House Middle, its closest middle school at just 2.3 miles away, to Jay M. Robinson, which sits 2.7 miles from the neighborhood. A Ledger reader sent in this photo parents in the SouthPark area who now go to Alexander Graham>Myers Park High but would switch to South Meck under latest draft. She suggests we take all of this beautiful energy and use that to make sure we are securing the resources that students need, including teacher pay. (The crowd applauded.). Much easier to follow then the live debate. Board member Lenora Shipp says: We know not everybody will be happy with this plan., Says she wants to make the best decision in the interests of our students, our children. June 22, 2023 at 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM. Its hard to tell what they were referring to. And taking time for a nice photo op for the TV cameras: The show starts at 6 p.m. Well be here for it with regular updates on the CMS board meeting throughout the night. From Lindsey Banks at the Government Center: The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board is expecting more than 100 people to turn out for a public hearing Tuesday night on changing school boundaries in the southern part of the county. Hes a former state representative. You have the end of school, and the meeting taking place on Tuesday. (i.e. New to CMS? In addition, a request for transfer to a magnet program which is NOT on the Schools with Space list will also be denied, since there is no space in the school. Good evening! PERFORM - 50%. A lot of people in green, holding signs that say things like 2 schools = 2 much. Public comments are up next. 2 new schools = 2 much. If you are going to be away on an assigned due-date for a prearranged reason, it is your responsibility to submit the assignment on a date that is mutually agreen upon by you and your classroom teacher. parent at Polo Ridge: Im begging you. The update is continuing on student outcome goals. But its how we rise and overcome from the change that counts., Says this assignment plan makes CMS stronger., Superintendent Crystal Hill thanks staff who have spent countless hours on this project. Problem? Had nothing to do with presentations to students. Under current plan, they would go to the new middle school in the Rea Farms area (that depends on passage of this years school bond) and to the new high school, off Johnston Road in the Ballantyne area. A nice note in the comments from new Ledger subscriber Joey: Had to subscribe tonight just because the school board meeting blog has allowed me to avoid watching the chaos and put a baseball game on instead while still being able to keep up. The Sharon > Alexander Graham area, on the other hand, has gone minimalist. Requests for reassignment must be made by completing the appropriate "Request for Reassignment" form, available at any school, at the Student Placement office, or on the CMS website. Bernadette Joyce of Olde Providence area says keeping the children together from elementary to high school is most important., Says 9th grade daughter, after her first dance wanted to go to her first high school party. There is no logic to it, said Polo Ridge data workgroup parentHimanshu Bhatnagar, a global engineering director with two kids in the CMS system. We have free and paid plans. Says it is a compromise. To jump to the first Ribbon tab use Ctrl+[. The student assignment plan will be operational. This section of Alexander Graham, where students went to Sharon Elementary, will leave student isolated at South Meck. If you dont get what you hoped for in the board plan, be gracious about it and move ahead. Board now moving on to regular agenda (non-student-assignment). Some commenters on the CMS Facebook page picked up on the language, too. maybe they need a lesson on muting their mics? You are already enrolled, so contact your current school if you need your childs student ID and PIN. But now that figure is lower. Says there should be no plan for any community to attend two new schools. The new high school under construction in the Ballantyne area will lead to new school assignments in south Charlotte. I will forever be proud to say that I worked at Carmel Middle School, and I cannot thank you enough for making my time at Carmel so meaningful. Says her daughter went through student reassignment and now is a doctor with a medical degree. CMS 2022-23 diversity report says 34% of Polo Ridge students are Asian. You have my respect. No Resource Mapped Toggle navigation. It was a separate side conversation. Full coverage in tomorrows Charlotte Ledger. zoned for Myers Park, and the southern portion assigned to South Meck. She says parents should take their energy on this and channel it toward their children and their schools: Show your children a positive honorable way to change. Nicole Willis Jenkins: ..maybe we should go to the tape? A lot of Alexander Graham Middle parents who would be switched from Myers Park to South Meck making a couple points: The AG campus is next to Myers Park, and holds many activities at Myers Park. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials unveiled a proposed student assignment map Monday night to a packed crowd at Myers Park High School, showing big boundary shifts across south Charlotte as the district prepares to open a new high school in the Ballantyne area and a proposed middle school near Rea Farms. Their proposal calls for Polo Ridge students to attend the new middle school and then move on to Ardrey Kell High where they currently attend. Yall are awesome. . This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has been devising drafts for more than a year. This blog is written by Tony Mecia and Cristina Bolling. The school board meeting starts Tuesday at 6 p.m. Thats when this LIVE BLOG will really get moving. Parents are upset because they say it will take far longer to drive from their homes to the new high school than it does to drive to Ardrey Kell High. What are we supposed to do with those?. (Photo by Kevin Young/The 5 and 2 Project) by Tony Mecia and Cristina Bolling All Kindergarten programs are based on the expectations and pedagogical approaches outlined in this document. The Ledger has been covering this issue extensively over the last year, and a decision is expected at the meeting. Like what we are doing? CHARLOTTE - Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will begin engaging the community next month as it launches student assignment for new schools opening in fall 2023 as well as a south Charlotte high school opening in 2024. Dennis LaCaria says CMS is working with an internal team on the specifics at particular schools. Letter to Carmel parents obtained by The Charlotte Ledger: This evening, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education announced my appointment as the new principal of Mallard Creek High School. That neighborhood in the previous draft was shown as going to South Meck. PREPARE - 20%. And you can comment, too, by hitting the word bubble icon above (paying Ledger members only). CMS seems to have wrong date on meeting logo. District 2. District 6. Heres Brodie (in center in a suit): The meeting will get going at 6 p.m. We understand that before it starts, CMS board members are attending a reception for Crystal Hill, the new superintendent. Your child will automatically be assigned to your neighborhood school based on your home address. We would love for you to join the 2,500+ Charlotte readers who are Charlotte Ledger members, as we seek to provide smart, relevant and independent journalism for Charlotte. Lisa Cline, who represents south Charlotte, asks what kind of flexibility there will be for students to switch to different schools. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, located in Charlotte, NC, is a publicly funded school district that educates children in Mecklenburg County. It is Polo Ridge night here in the public comments portion of the school board meeting. Nunns motion fails 5-4. Stick with The Ledger for continuing coverage of this issue and other important local news and insights. Click the button to find out more! If you need to subscribe, to our free or paid version, you can do that here. One wrote: When the other group was coming in they said, here comes the other group, oh God, Jesus Christ and a bunch of laughing and snickering at them. Just apply common sense.. Would mean switching students from Alexander Graham to Carmel Middle, and then on together to South Meck. CMS official now describing changes to magnet programs. Charlotte, NC 28217 Phone: 980-343-6980 Fax: 980-343-5665 Directions to District Office. The board is expected to vote on plans June 6. At 2 minutes each, that is 150 minutes, or 2 1/2 hours of public comments. Entry of Students from Home Schools S-ADMI Admission of Nonimmigrant Students S-ADMI/R Admission of Nonimmigrant Students (F-I Students and Foreign Exchange Students) S-ADMN Admission of Nonresident Students S-ADMR Admission of Resident Students S-ASGP Student Assignment Plan S-ASGP/E1 The Charlotte Observer July 29, 2022 6:00 AM A lot of factors go into. At-large board member Jennifer De La Jara expresses her gratitude for all of staffs work on the plan, including allowing rising juniors to stay at their school. Robinson Middle School. Board advisor Charles Jeter is saying our earlier item, which said the meeting was starting late because of awards given to students is incorrect. Says their world was turned upside down when CMS Dennis LaCaria shared the latest plan at Polo Ridge two weeks ago: CMS put [us] through all of this anxiety and sleepless nights since Dennis walked into Polo Ridge with this plan. The numbers seem large, but remember CMS is system of more than 140,000 students). Would be utilization of 133% at Carmel, but students would stay together. De La Jara said there have been phone calls between board members in recent days about small tweaks they may propose, but she declined to be specific because she said its too early to know if the changes will actually be put to a vote on Tuesday. here What documentation do I need in order to submit my application for the School Choice lottery? Feel free to forward this along and to tell a friend. And shes encouraged by so many people saying, regarding the boundary lines, Its not perfect but its a good compromise., She also likes how much of the language we are hearing is about the greater good and the longer-term good.. The summer hours will begin Monday, June 26, and will remain in effect through Friday, August 4. Looks to me as though there are only 5 speakers left. So I reviewed the video, and it turns out I am not making things up. ), a 4. grader at Providence Spring Elementary. This plan serves as the basis for how CMS will educate the students in Mecklenburg County. The Public School system follows North Carolina state public education policies . Much easier to follow then the live debate. If you were being graded on this plan, you would fail. But other areas of south Charlotte including Polo Ridge near Rea Farms, Governors Square and Foxcroft East near SouthPark and Thornhill near Ballantyne were caught off guard by this weeks changes and fear they lack adequate time to respond to the latest draft. The content reflects the independent editorial judgment of The Charlotte Ledger. Well try to get some clarity on the reasons for the votes in the next few days. Kate Stokes, an 8th grader at Alexander Graham Middle, says: My middle school is next door to Myers Park, and I already feel like Im a part of the school. New map would send her to South Meck, a school I have never been to, where I know very few people.. Helpful Links. Turn that focus and energy toward making your childrens school a great one. Theyre pointing out that AG is right next to Myers Park, where they would prefer to stay. Yall are trying to conflate multiple conversations as if it was one conversation that goes together. More photos from Lindsey of the crowd at the Government Center: Should have noted this earlier, but you can watch the meeting yourself on the Board of Educations Facebook page: From The Ledgers Lindsey Banks, on scene: I did not anticipate how long the line would be to get thru security. Hes known as a fierce defender of the board and is not afraid to play hardball with media and board critics. We had to empty the gallery and laid it back it up. Now it is split, some to Providence, some to South Meck. From Ledger subscriber Sheila Chillcott in the comments: Appreciate the blog. (Open to paying Ledger members. It is one of several non-school-assignment items on tonights agenda, before the public comments and board discussion. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will observe a districtwide modified schedule. At the risk of sounding like a pledge drive, if youd like to become a Ledger member and support smart independent local journalism and unlock full access to Ledger articles AND be able to weigh in in the comments . Says those areas should go to the new high school off Johnston Road instead. Because of that, Ardrey Kell potentially becomes the most affluent school in the state, she says. (Adapted Board member Summer Nunn is introducing Pledge of Allegiance leader. Their proposal calls for Polo Ridge students to attend the new middle school and then move on to Ardrey Kell High where they currently attend. Draft #3 splits ELE; half to SCMS and half moved to Crestdale MS. We are (fortunately) still at South Charlotte MS in Draft #3, in Draft #3 Alexander Road is being used as a new dividing line for the most part. ..maybe we should go to the tape? Some Polo Ridge parents have suggested that Ballantyne Elementary, not Polo Ridge, should be sent to the new high school. By their best estimations, they say they spent a combined 1,000-plus hours over the last week or so coming up with a fresh plan for school boundary lines in south Charlotte one they say they believe is better than all of the proposals CMS has crafted so far, both for their own kids and those in nearby schools. Cant get enough of student assignment talk? Board members seem not to realize that their microphones are often on, picking up their under-their-breath discussions. Recognizing student scholars. We have improved SES diversity across the board, LaCaria said. I dont understand why I was switched. Details: WebEnroll in CMS. https://go.boarddocs.com/nc/cmsnc/Board.nsf/files/CSCMGG5A9FA7/$file/Superintendent's Recommendation South County Relief FINAL DECK.pptx.pdf, examined the objections by Polo Ridge parents last week, live blog of the public hearing on May 23, Opt in or out of different newsletters on your My Account page. South Meck.
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