Thursday, April 27, 2017
The CMS student assignment plan was unveiled by Superintendent Ann Clark this week. How well does it address the desire for neighborhood schools and the need to diversify the system? We take an in-depth look with education reporters and school board members.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has been working on a student assignment plan for two years now. The goal was to find a way to break up pockets of high poverty to improve educational outcomes for those children, find ways to diversify our increasingly re-segregated schools and to maintain some semblance of neighborhood schools.
On Tuesday, CMS Superintendent Ann Clark made her recommendations. It was an incredibly difficult task bound to make some people unhappy. Is that the case? How many children will be impacted? Have goals been met or are we still lacking diversity?
Two education reporters and members of the school board join Mike Collins for an in-depth discussion of the plan.
Guests
Lisa Worf - Assistant News Director and Reporter for WFAE
Ann Doss Helms - Reporter for The Charlotte Observer
Ericka Ellis-Stewart - At-Large Member of the School Board
Eric Davis - Member of the School Board representing District 5
Related reading
CMS Student Assignment Recommendations
WFAE: CMS Proposal Calls For Many Boundary Tweaks, A Few Big Changes
Charlotte Observer: Here’s what the new CMS boundary and magnet plan means to each school
Charlotte Observer: 75 CMS schools will see change in Ann Clark’s boundary plan, and there are surprises
